MoneySense magazine: September/October 2014 + MORE Aug 28th

Patricia Visser, 78, retired 20 years ago and has been working ever since. She is among a generation of retirees taking new jobs in retirement that offer fulfilment and new challenges.

The Ontario premier will use an Ekos survey in Thursday’s discussion about pensions with fellow premiers

 

After a number of years in the workforce and dealing with deadlines, demands (and way too much office politics) you are more than ready for an infinite amount of rest and relaxation. You have marked the day on the calendar when you are finally free to enter the mysterious world of retirement and can enter the Second Chapter of your life at last.
Six months after you leave work, you are well rested. You have slept in every day ignored the news and have kept your distance from all things relating to your past employment. Life has been easy but you have found yourself at loose ends. How much rest and relaxation does a person really need? You have taken a well-deserved break from life but now it is time to venture back into the real world. What will you do for the next decade or two?
Take Stock of the Second Chapter of your Life
A good starting point is to take a reality check of your finances. Do you have a regular cash flow from your pension income or your investments to cover your day to day expenses? If not, you either need to find a part time job to make up the shortfall or look at ways you can either reduce expenses or free up some money (i…

September/October 2014
Volume 16, Number 5
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Financial Independence
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Family Profile
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Retirement
By: David Aston
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BERLIN – A German union representing pilots says it is planning a new round of strikes in a long-running dispute over wages and early retirement benefits.
The Vereinigung Cockpit union says in a statement it will order pilots of Germanwings, a subsidiary of Germany’s biggest airline Lufthansa, to go on strike Friday if further negotiations on Thursday fail to achieve their goals.
The union said all Germanwings flights departing from German airports would be affected by the strike Friday from 6 a.m. until noon local time.
Lufthansa spokesman Andreas Bartels said the company regrets that the dispute may affect customers and is considering whether to continue negotiating with the union.
A three-day pilots’ strike in April grounded Lufthansa and its Germanwings and Lufthansa Cargo subsidiaries.
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