A few points worth remembering from a recent short course on retirement issues:

• diversify!
• define goals and write them down, e.g.:

retirement * education * parental care * estate * major purchases

* don't try to "time the market"

• consider long-term care insurance
• consider "life documents" such as:

power of attorney * health care wishes * will

* be realistic

• keep it simple

And I learned a funny new term: Slash Attorneys — lawyers who have lots of "slashes" in their advertisements: personal injury / divorce / workman's compensation / medical malpractice / DWI defense / etc. Beware the slash attorney!

(cf. MoneyWisdom (2001-01-20), GoodFortune (2004-12-12), ...) - ^z - 2008-03-15

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(correlates: DangerousGame, SupplyAndDemand, SanguineDisposition, ...)