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The five factors of retirement for Canadians
– moneysense.ca
This month’s Retired Money column reprises a couple of interesting takes on the key factors in deciding one’s timing of embarking on retirement. One is from the Plutus-award winning American author and blogger Fritz Gilbert, and the second is a Canadian take from MyOwnAdvisor’s Mark Seed.
A Canadian perspective on the five factors of retirement
Gilbert started the ball rolling back in April 2022, with a post on his The Retirement Manifesto blog, entitled “The 5 most important factors in your decision to retire.” His Plutus award was for Best Retirement Blog. After more than 30 years working in corporate America, Fritz retired (as planned) in June 2018 at age 55. He’s also the author of a book on retirement: Keys to a Successful Retirement (Rockridge Press, 2020).
Then on my own site, as it often does with permission from various financial bloggers, I re-reran Gilbert’s blog; it was noticed by Seed, who was inspired to riff on the same theme, with a Canadian spin and more remarks from his personal perspective…
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– news.google.ca
