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Achieving a Financially Secure Retirement: A Retirement Community Case Study
… about their financial quality of life in retirement. The media is replete with a plethora of advertisements for retirement planning and financial products for an aging population. By 2030, nearly 20 percent of the population of the United States will be 65 or older. This case study was an …
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Variables affecting early retirement
… head’s perception of faculty vitality, retirement salary, age and academic rank. A survey was administered to all male faculty (N=309) between 50 and 60 years of age and to the department heads of the respondents at a comprehensive research university. Complete data sets were received …
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Minnetonka countryside : a retirement community
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1986.
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Financing retirement consumption and bequests
… evaluate possible vehicles for financing either retirement consumption or bequests. Chapter 1 compares the use of Roth and tax-deferred retirement accounts for retirement consumption with the use of taxable accounts. Previously, economists have often assumed that retirement savings should be done …
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Pre- and post-retirement asset allocation: a simulation of retirement investment strategies for agricultural producers
This research simulates pre-retirement investment scenarios for agricultural producers. Thirty-two investment scenarios are examined, with each scenario differing with respect to retirement vehicle, investment strategy of the producer, and the use of a cash margin for reinvestment in the operation …
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Some Correlates of Satisfaction In Retirement.
In 1960, there were 16 million persons over age 65. At present, there are 23 million persons over age 65, and about 38%, or 8.7 million, of those are over age 75. It is projected that by the year 2000, 43% of the aged will be over age 75. Only 21% of the men over 65 are employed as compared to 45% …
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Financial Reality Post-retirement: Federal Retirees
… with a focus on the factors influencing their retirement decisions, financial preparedness, and the role of federal retirement benefits. Using a phenomenological approach, in-depth interviews were conducted with recent retirees to examine the key elements that influenced their timing of …
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Sport retirement: Personal troubles, public faces
… to reevaluate his/her sport life and contemplate retirement, and subsequently begin a search for a new identity and a new focus in life. Through the use of interpretive interactionism and the personal experience narrative I comment on the difficulty of life after sport. My goals are to make the …
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Pensions, saving, and retirement under uncertainty
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1993.
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Virginia Farmer Retirement and Transition Planning
… how Virginia farmers are planning for farm retirement and succession and whether they will be financially prepared for their retirement years. The Virginia farming population is aging, life expectancy is increasing, and Social Security benefits are not a stable source of retirement income …
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Individual retirement savings behaviour : evidence from Malaysia
… choice decisions within the context of retirement savings in Malaysia. The focus is on individuals‟ likelihood of investing part of their retirement savings in approved unit trusts (also known as mutual funds). In addition, individuals‟ choice of fund and mutual fund selection criteria …
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Individual personality differences in adjustment to retirement
Retirement is an important life event to study at present, because more people are entering their retirement years and are spending more time in retirement than ever before in our nation’s history. Historically, research has shown mixed results on effects of retirement that are not accurately …
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Retirement Annuities: Optimization, Analysis and Machine Learning
… income annuity (DIA) purchased while saving for retirement can pay aguaranteed stream of income for life, practically serving as a pension substitute, several questions arise. Our main contribution is answering the question of purchasing DIAs under the interest rate uncertainty. We pose the …
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Adjustment to Retirement of Horse Racing Jockeys
Retirement from sport can be a problematic and traumatic experience for athletes. Retirement from professional horse racing can be particularly distressful for jockeys. This thesis describes how former professional jockeys' adjusted to retirement. The participants in the present study were 72 …
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A history of California teacher retirement laws
… thesis deals largely with the history of teacher retirement in California. It covers the period from the class of the Civil War to June 30, 1957. Some background data were developed in the early American history of teacher retirement in order to understand better the early conditions in …
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