CHAPTER 16

Build Your Retirement Board of Directors

by Priscilla Claman

What does it mean to you to be retired? To work less? Have more control of your time? To finally learn to speak Italian? To cruise the South Pacific in an ocean-going sailboat? Do you scoff, because you can’t imagine ever being able to afford retirement or ever want to retire? Or are you planning to continue working in some form until you can’t anymore?

We know that retirement is no longer the retirement after 40-years-with-the-same-company-and-a-gold-watch situation that it once was. But what is it now? For many of us, it means taking retirement pay or benefits and deciding what to do next. The options are abundant, varied, and possibly overwhelming. It’s similar to the ...

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