..Retirement Planning Calculators:

AARP Bulletin	Computes end of plan balance or shortfall. Does not differentiate between tax-deferred and after-tax accounts.
A.G. Edwards	Retirement Planning Calculator, oriented towards accumulation.
American Savings Education Council	Interactive Ballpark Worksheet for planning for retirement.
Analyze Now!	Inexpensive retirement planning tools that accommodate the particular situations of each user and provide a conservative response.
Bankrate.com	How much to retire? Calculate your payment and more.
Bankrate.com	How much to retire? Calculate your payment and more.
Choose To Save	Computes saving rate required to meet estimated retirement needs. Does not differentiate between tax-deferred and after-tax accounts. .
CNN money.com Retirement	Computes rate of portfolio return necessary to get desired retirement income.
Dept. of Labor	Employee Benefits, Security Administration
E$Planner	Calculates your highest sustainable living standard and the saving and life insurance needed to maintain that living standard in retirement.
Fidelity Investments	Requires a Fidelity Account
FIRECalc	With what you have today, and what it costs you to live, can you retire and maintain the same lifestyle?
financenter.com	A detailed and complicated calculator with more than 120 input parameters. (Also used by Kiplinger and Allstate.)
MS Moneycentral	Designed to sell insurance products of all kinds.
New Retirement	A simplistic site with some redeeming features. It figures assets three ways, according to a retirement plan of spending, preserving, or increasing retirement capital.
Prudential	Retirement Work Sheet - more interested in budgeting than strategic financial planning.
Reality Retirement Calculator	Reality Retirement Planning is based on the idea that spending needs decline with age. Shows the difference between a conventional calculator and the Reality approach. (Reality Retirement Planning is an option in ORP.)
Retirement Forecasting	A non affiliated retirement calculator both conventional and Monte Carlo. Must be downloaded.
TIP$TER	Free Monte Carlo retirement calculator that projects and compares the risks and rewards of a diversified portfolio with those of a portfolio fully invested in Treasury Invested Protected Securities ("TIPS").
Torrid Technologies	Downloadable, for-fee, retirement savings planning calculator.
Vanguard Retirement Planning Tools	Vanguard Retirement Manager: downloadable retirement calculator, for a fee.
Wall Street Access Advisory Service	Retirement Advisor, On line retirement calculator.
WealthRuler	TD Ameritrade calculator to get a realistic snapshot of where you are now as well as an insightful window into your future retirement situation

..Related Blogs:

Blogleheads	The Moderated Vanguard Diehards Investment Forum
Early Retirement Forum	Early Retirement & Financial Independence Community
Living Abroad	Cost of Retiring on a Boat.
Kipplinger	Retirement Planning Software
Morningstar	Forum to discuss strategies for investing during retirement
phpbb	Paco Villa's Bulletin Boards
SavingAdvice.com	Personal Finance Forum.

..Useful Security and Exchange Commission Sites:

Calculators	This page contains links to a variety of SEC sponsored calculators.
Mutual Fund Introduction	Invest wisely, an introduction to mutual funds. Investors have turned to mutual funds to save for retirement.
Mutual Fund Investing	When investing in mutual funds look at more than past performance. Past performance is a weak indicator for a fund's future success.
Variable Annuities	Variable Annuities invest after-tax money to provide tax-deferred growth. The SEC provides a comprehensive description here.

..Other Web Sites Related to Retirement Planning:

About.com	CPAs and PFSs can find retirement planning resources here.
American Association of Individual Investors	Contains material on all aspects of investing including retirement issues.
AARP Webplace	Tips on financing retirement and lists of other nonprofit groups that serve seniors
CNN money.com Retirement	Addresses several significant retirement issues.
Engineering Your Retirement	Information of value to the retirement planner.
Estate Planning Links	Links to wealth preservation resources on the Internet.
Financial Information Links	Links to web sites containing financial information.
Financial Planning Association	Connects those who need, support and deliver financial planning.
Florida Department of Elder Affairs	Older Floridians Handbook
Friendly 4 Seniors	Contains information of interest to Seniors.
Guide to Retirement Planning	Much information about retirement issues, from annuities to Y2K.
IRA to Roth IRA Conversion	When to convert, how to do it.
Home Buyer's Fair	Evaluate alternative communities in which to retire.
NEFE Sponsored White Paper.	Retirement Planning in the 21st Century: A Think Tank Sponsored By the National Endowment For Financial Education
MDP Associates	Stock Market Quantitative Market Timing Techniques for Capital Preservation.
My Financial Shepherd	A multitude of links concerned with cash, credit & debt management.
PGcalc	Software for Planned Giving, marketing, and administration.
Reality Retirement Planning	A New Paradigm for an Old Science by Ty Bernicke, CFP®; Journal of Financial Planning; June 2005
Retirement Information & Tips	Comprehensive Retirement Information, from 401(K) to Social Security.
Retirement Pros	Provides information that will enable you to put your nest egg to work harder and smarter without exposure to risk.
Senior Links	Links to sites of interest to seniors.
Social Security Administration	Access to more that 600 of its documents
Social Security Timing	An indepth discussion of the timing of taking Social Security Benefits.
Sterling National Bank	A full service bank providing everything from trust and investment products to Internet banking.
Wealthy Geek	Online resource for investing, planning and managing personal resources.
Women's Institute for a Secure Retirement	Offers things that women need to do for retirement.

..Web Sites for Overall Tax Planning:

Coopers & Lybrand	Interactive connections for researching tax questions.
Only Taxes	Informative articles about tax matters and a bit of tax humor.
Wills and Trusts	A comprehensive estate-planning course.

Last Update: December 12, 2008		© 1998-2008, James S. Welch, Jr