Green Retirement Blog

The retirement industry doesn’t include, in their asset allocation models, perhaps your largest asset - huh? To refresh your knowledge of asset allocation, the goal of asset allocation is to minimize your risk, and enhance your returns. You want to diversify your assets, so that your overall portfolio, is not concentrated in one asset type. […]

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T’is the season that tests the willpower of retirees, and those planning for retirement, the holiday shopping season. Starting today, and for the next month, you will be challenged to stick with your retirement plan and budget.
The temptation to spend, spend, spend, can be overwhelming, the stores are having sales, sales, sales. Your mailbox is […]

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The retirement industry uses your “Starbucks” coffee habit, to illustrate how even small amounts of money, can have a large impact on your retirement. In the retirement industry example, they point out that if you took the money you spend in coffee, and invested it instead with them, after so many years of compounding returns […]

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Where to retire, after where to invest, is perhaps the biggest concern of people planning their retirement. This topic is so large, that one blog post can’t hope to answer the question, thus the category “Places to Retire” has been created to deal with the issue.
But we can start by answering the question - “What is […]

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According to, Merriam Webster’s definition of retirement, it is the “withdrawal from one’s position or occupation or from active working life.” Simple and logical enough. The Online Etymology gives the date of the first usage of the word retirement, to mean “leave an occupation”, in the year 1648. Most probably because, according to Wikipedia, up […]

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The first post on the retirement blog was about saving your individual retirement asse(t)s. The second post on the retirement blog,  is about saving the Planet’s assets.
We are consuming the earth’s natural resources at an unsustainable rate. The United States is 5% of the world’s population, yet we consume 25% of the world’s resources, we […]

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If you’re thinking about retirement, don’t think, act. Now, may be the best and last opportunity, for you to retire in a long time. Americans have most of their assets, retirement savings, divided in two categories - Homes and Stocks. And both are declining in value.
There is the real and growing possibility that the U.S. […]

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Welcome to the Green Retirement Blog. This is a blog for anyone interested in retirement. It is an addition to the Green Retirement Website. Here you will find frequently updated articles on retirement, a place to share your retirement ideas and advice, and hopefully the beginning of an online retirement community.
It will probably become evident, […]

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