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Taxes are done and you may have moved a few thousand dollars into your retirement accounts. Now what?

Despite clear signals that the retirement of baby boomers could be disruptive to corporate IT, many companies seem perfectly content to watch them walk out the door. As a result, IT shops that are attempting to get ahead of the retirement wave are finding themselves pretty much on their own.

Some things are just better left to the professionals. For instance, we can all drive, but we would not be safe behind the wheel of a nitro-fuel-burning funny car. Likewise, we all have some money set aside in a retirement account, but we really don't have any business fooling with funds that use short-selling leverage or ETFs that magnify movements in the oil market.

John Ameriks of Vanguard Investment Counseling and Research explains how to tap your retirement assets without exhausting your portfolio.

Deciding whether to pay tax now or later is a vexing retirement question, says Dr. Don Taylor.

For many people approaching the end of their career, the prospect of endlesslypruning the roses fills them with dread. This has given rise to the concept of'returnment' - taking up work again after retirement

Vanguard® Managed Payout Funds, innovative low-cost mutual fund offerings for investors in or nearing retirement, are now available for purchase.

Surely planning for any eventuality regarding your health is a wise decision; although you may never need critical health insurance, it is preferable to have it an not use it than the opposite! After all, you are providing for the financial needs of your family in the future if something untoward happens where you will no longer be around to help them in person. Insurance providers, acting on the statistical information they receive from research institutes now offer this type of protection to every one of their customers.

You?re playing a game and all at once someone shouts ?Do over? and everyone starts the game over. You get ?do overs? in quite a few things in life but...

We're looking for passionate and enthusiastic individual to be the Guide to the retirement Planning site on About.com!What sort of information do we want the new Guide to provide?Well, we're...