Planning Retirement

Back in the day, reaching your retirement goals meant building a sizable portfolio and paying off your mortgage. Both goals are a lot harder to achieve in today’s economy. To amass adequate retirement savings, you’ll have to commit to a high contribution rate, given forecasts of lower returns. Paying off …

Mary Foster is a morning person, which helps make the 5 a.m. start time at her job as a manager at a young food-flavoring company a little easier. Still, the 60-hour work weeks she regularly puts in have started to wear on her. So much so that the 57-year-old Kentucky …