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Newsweek has a piece on a book by Lee Eisenberg titled "The Number". The subject is how much do you need in your portfolio to retire. A couple of quotes:
"...despite all those Web sites telling us how much to save to retire comfortably, most people remain in denial or uncertain about what their number really is."
"...he discovers how loath people are to discuss the details of their number, even with close friends. "[People] would sooner offer personal guided tours through their medicine cabinets [or] provide detailed dossiers on their sessions with psychotherapists," he writes. "The Number, I have come to understand, is the Last Taboo."
Not in the online article but in the print version is Eisenberg's segmentation of future retirees into four categories:
Procrastinators: Reach 50 without a plan, hoping they will be young forever.
Plotters: Left-brain types use Quicken and study actuarial tables.
Pluckers: Pulled a number from thin air.
Probers: Focus on meaning, not money, and plan lower-cost retirement.
I'd guess we have a forum full of Plotters and Probers.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10663347/site/newsweek/
"...despite all those Web sites telling us how much to save to retire comfortably, most people remain in denial or uncertain about what their number really is."
"...he discovers how loath people are to discuss the details of their number, even with close friends. "[People] would sooner offer personal guided tours through their medicine cabinets [or] provide detailed dossiers on their sessions with psychotherapists," he writes. "The Number, I have come to understand, is the Last Taboo."
Not in the online article but in the print version is Eisenberg's segmentation of future retirees into four categories:
Procrastinators: Reach 50 without a plan, hoping they will be young forever.
Plotters: Left-brain types use Quicken and study actuarial tables.
Pluckers: Pulled a number from thin air.
Probers: Focus on meaning, not money, and plan lower-cost retirement.
I'd guess we have a forum full of Plotters and Probers.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10663347/site/newsweek/