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How to Make Sure You Have Enough for Retirement

3/16/2022

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Retirement planning can be incredibly stressful for many people. In fact, retirement planning can be so stressful, confusing, and tedious, that people neglect to set up retirement plans and invest and save heavily for retirement. But this only leads to bigger issues later down the line. You don’t want to struggle with financial issues during your retirement if you can avoid it at all. That means that you are going to have to take the right steps and start early to get setup. Here are three things you need to do to make sure you have enough for retirement.

Create Multiple Sources of Income

The first thing that you should do to make sure you have enough for retirement is to create multiple sources of income for yourself. While it might make sense that having more money available to save and invest for retirement will help save, a lot of people are okay with only having their salary from their 9-5. But by creating multiple streams of income, you are more independent from your job, and can create streams of income that will continue to pay you throughout retirement. For instance, investing in mutual funds and stocks that pay out dividends can be a great source of passive income. Same with owning rental properties or starting businesses.

Supercharge Your Retirement Savings

Another crucial step to making sure you have enough money saved for retirement is to supercharge your retirement savings. You want to make sure that you are maxing out your retirement contributions whenever you can to make sure you have the most money possible at retirement. Workers over the age of 50 can make additional catch-up contributions to a retirement plan. These catch-up contributions can be thousands of dollars a year, which can grow in your retirement account in a huge way to leave you with the money you need at retirement.

Start Early

The final thing that is essential to making sure you have enough for retirement is to start early. Compounding interest is the key to growing wealth in a retirement account, and the one thing that is true about compounding interest is the longer you can have it working in your favor, the exponentially better it gets. Try and start investing as young as possible in your IRA and 401(k) plans so that your money grows over time. Any little bit counts.

Retirement savings is never an easy concept. But you need to plan effectively if you want to have enough money to make it through retirement. Make sure that you are doing these three things to have the money you need available at retirement.

Check out this article on why you need a comprehensive financial plan before retirement!

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    My name is Dan Hopwood and I first started my career in the insurance business back in 1988.  2023 will be the start of my 35th year in the business. 

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