Retirement Income
Should You Plan to Retire on 80% of Your Income?
Submitted by Ferguson Financial Inc. on March 7th, 2016Are Your Children Financially Literate?
Submitted by Ferguson Financial Inc. on March 12th, 2015
How bad is financial illiteracy today? So bad that your children may be at risk of making some serious financial mistakes. Some are finding that talking to children about finances has become less about the nuts and bolts of money and more about putting money’s importance to our daily lives in the correct context.
Women at particular risk. The U.S. Department of Labor reports that only 45% of working women ages 21-64 have a retirement plan. The DOL also notes that more women work in part-time jobs, and are more likely to interrupt their careers to take care of family, whether that be raising children or looking after parents. Some of these patterns are just luck of the draw, but others may come from what parents teach children about money, and how they teach it.1
