And he wrote in to Morning Edition to say he's less than five years from retirement and he's got a 100, 000-dollar nest egg invested right now, in a seemingly safe money-market account.
Today's home-equity borrowers will not be able to spend this particular nest-egg when they are older.
If the employer does his due diligence in setting up the plan and the investments options offered are low-cost and well-constructed, then the employee has a good chance of accumulating a nice supplemental nest-egg.
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Fortunately the nest-egg was in dollars and help was at hand in a little-known corner of America's federal bureaucracy.
The hard truth is that building a proper nest-egg takes much more ambitious savings than virtually any 401(k) plan envisions.
She was the one who shook him out of his comfort zone and got him to to fire his stockbroker and take control of his nest-egg.
Meanwhile, as the government's nest-egg of surplus tax revenues has become embarrassingly large, so Mr Fabius has emphasised the need for lower tax rates for all classes, including the rich.
The company has also decided not to grant a dividend to its shareholders for the first time in over a century as it hopes to keep adding to its corporate nest-egg.
But the Kurchatov's nest-egg will not last for ever nuclear reactors being what they are, it could last for a very short time indeed and it is irreplaceable, unless somebody else chooses to build nuclear reactors in the Moscow suburbs.
Not having the proper resources to cover long-term care costs can result in a nest egg being used to pay for medical expenses, post-acute institutional care such as that which is provided at a skilled nursing facility, home-health care and other health-related expenses not covered under insurance.
As the months went by, Nelson got statements showing her nest egg getting bigger--but without ever getting the quarterly profit checks that had been promised.
Personal accounts, contrary to what demagogues and Democrats declare, are not equivalent to putting your nest egg into prebubble high-tech highfliers.
For pre-retirees who are still building the nest egg, this analysis can provide insights about what to expect in the future.
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And this housing crisis struck right at the heart of what it means to be middle class in America: our homes -- the place where we invest our nest egg, place where we raise our family, the place where we plant roots in a community, the place where we build memories.
Reasons you might want to keep your retirement nest egg in your 401(k) by doing an in-plan conversion include access to lower-fee institutional class funds, and for better creditor protection.
Given a diagnosis of late-stage lung cancer, Walt took up cooking meth to build a nest egg and, later on, to pay his medical bills.
Policies on employer matching, vesting, after-tax contributions and the like all have an impact on your potential retirement nest egg.
The Ryan-Sununu approach would turn a deadweight, pay-as-you-go liability system into an enormous generator of capital that would significantly increase economic growth in the years ahead--and give participants far more in retirement payment and leave them a real nest egg of capital.
And while the working population is saving about 6.5% of its income, retirees are depleting their savings by about 14% per year--several times the 3% to 4% experts say is prudent if a nest egg is going to last a lifetime.
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