Tutorials
Most of the retirement planning tutorial information on the web
can be found at commercial sites. The information can rarely
be read in a start-to-finish fashion and visitors often have to
wade through poor site navigational schemes and tons of advertising
to get to the good stuff.
There are a few sites, however, where the goal is simply to provide
site visitors with the information they need in a no-hassle format.
Retirement information on the web comes in the form of two general
categories - investment tutorials and retirement planning tutorials.
Investments (stocks, bonds, etc.) are a general way of generating wealth.
Retirement planning is not only about creating wealth, but is
also about managing expenses during retirement and enjoying the
retirement experience.
Pre-Retirement Planning Guide (NYS)
Who would have thought that the New York State Governor's Office of Employee Relations would create one of
the best online retirement planning guides on the web? Some of the material is specific to New York employees,
but the majority of this online guide is as excellent as it is comprehensive.
Retirement Planning (About.com)
About.com has a complete site dedicated to retirement planning. Lots of information but it's not all that
easy to figure out what to read first.
Retirement & Elder Care (NOLO.com)
Retirement planning and elder care legal information on 401 (k) plans, Roth IRAs, assisted living,
nursing homes, social security benefits, Medicare, Medicade, and more from the
Do-It-Yourself Law Center.
GE Center for Financial Learning
Developed by GE to promote financial literacy. It does a good job, plus it has a reasonable
thorough section on retirement planning.
Retirement Planning (Motley Fool)
A plain-English walk through of the things you need to thing about before and after
retirement. Well worth the time to read.
Investing During Retirement
Not a broad tutorial, but a good article on how retirement changes the objectives of investment,
Financial Planning Services
A general purpose site, with a lot of high level discussion about various planning
issues - covering a persons entire life. Information is more generic than quantitative.
The site is intended to give a person background information that will allow them to
talk about retirement more effectively with a professional financial planner.
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Investing
The Building Blocks (Investopedia)
An excellent place to learn about investing. There's scattered content that is specific to retirement,
but if you go hear it's because you'll want to learn about stocks, bonds, mutual funds, brokers,
indexes, and market indices. This is one of the best financial tutorial sites on the web!
Planning Tutorials (Kiplinger)
Kiplinger's strength is in finances. Their web site has retirement information but it's
not the place a beginner will go to get well-grounded in the basics of retirement planning.
If you have a specific, more advanced topic you want information about, then searching
this site can give good results.
Free Financial Advice
A very nice series of articles on various aspect of financial planning. They say their goal is to
teach and explain the fundamental rules of money management, wealth management and debt management so
you can better manage your spending and debt.
Money 101 (CNNmoney)
Good articles on all of the elements of personal financing can be found here.
There's retirement information but the focus is on finances in general.
Financial Planning (About.com)
A companion About.com site to their retirement planning. This is one is about
financial planning - more of a budgeting site than an investment site.
Personal Budgeting and Money Saving Tips
A relaxed discussion of budgeting and planning. A good primer before you get into the
more quantitative sites on financial planning.
