Retirement Portfolio Quotes

When people retire, their income drops much more sharply than their consumption. As a result, they stop saving and start drawing down the assets they've acquired during their high-saving years. That could start to put upward pressure on interest rates and downward pressure on stock prices.

Many people focus on the 4 percent rule, which essentially says that as long as you withdraw no more than 4 percent from your retirement accounts each year, the money should last you 30 years.

Retirement security is often compared to a three-legged stool supported by Social Security, employer-provided pension funds, and private savings.

A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse.

As you know President Bush has been traveling around the country trying to sell his new Social Security plan. He wants to take our retirement money and invest it in the stock market. He says nothing can go wrong. I'll mention that to Martha Stewart the next time I see her.

We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don't know, frankly, how it would work under every scenario.

I am very concerned about the millions of baby boomers who are counting on the stock market to deliver them a safe, sound, long retirement. I am afraid the baby boomers who are counting on the stock market are in trouble.

Knowing where you stand in your quest to accumulate enough money for retirement is an incredibly important part of the planning process.

I'm not sure that too many Americans would choose the president to manage their retirement accounts.