Recent content by Eztroller

Its a local government retirement. They stopped new participants from entering it about ten years ago. The new folks were forced into the states retirement system. Still good, but not nearly as good as ours. They do an excellent job of forecasting values and I dont forsee any issues with it...

I cant tell if your are serious? I trust the pension about 99%, but there is still room for error.

I havent always made 125. There have been step and pay increases along the way. Yes, the i sold low and waited too long after 2008 before deciding I wanted to start back in the stock market. As mentioned previously, it was a huge financial mistake. 215 grand isnt what most have here whom are...

@steelyman Thanks. I have a friend who has a financial background tell me to be high risk with my deferred comp. he explained I already have a stable conservative investment-pension. Made sense at the time, but am just now getting around to trying to figure it out. The compounding...

Ok thanks for the help. I have $650,000 in life insurance. My wife does not know anything specific about our finances. I dont mean that in a bad way, she just leaves all of it to me. As far as the pension, its gone if I die before 50 (encouraging her to “weekend at Bernie’s”) for as long as...

Hi, I am a government employee with 18 years of service (12 to go) in a very stressful work environment. My retirment is tax based/funded and as long as I live until 50, I will collect 82% of my income for life. I am currently earning $125,000 yr ( this includes overtime so the next number...