Supplement Your Retirement
- No matter what lifestyle you hope to have in retirement, planning and saving are crucial to achieving your goal. The sooner you begin to put money aside, the sooner your money will start working for you.
- Click on Success Story tabs to view Dartmouth employees speaking about the importance of saving for retirement. (Files are available both in QuickTime/Mac and in Windows Media/PC formats.)
- Think about what you want to do when you retire including what you want to give to your family while you are still alive
- Share this information with your spouse (maybe even kids) to discuss different ways of saving.
- Consider using a retirement calculator or planner to get a rough estimate of how much you will need for retirement
- Identify different ways in which you can save for the additional retirement accounts
- Plan and meet your payment obligations.
Saving For Retirement: Dawna
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Dawna Clarke is the Director of Admissions at the Tuck School of Business. She has been at Tuck for two and a half years.
Topics discussed:
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Hopes for Retirement
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Why I Save Now
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My Saving Methods
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Handling Unexpected Expenses
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I Want to Be Independent
Saving for Retirement: Jeff
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Jeff Gould works in Procurement's Central Stock Room. He has been with the College for seven and a half years.
Topics discussed:
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Hopes for Retirement
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Why I Save Now
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Handling Unexpected Expenses
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How I Save
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Parents as Role Models
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Jeff's Recommendations
Saving for Retirement: Ron
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Ron Whitcomb works in Facilities Operations & Management's Custodial Services. He has been with the College for fourteen years.
Topics discussed:
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Hopes for Retirement
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Parents as Role Models
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Why I Save
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Ron's Recommendations
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Planning for the Future
Saving for Retirement: Sarah
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Sarah Morgan works at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences. She has been with the College for four years.
Topics discussed:
- Hopes for Retirement
- Why I Save Now
- Handling Unexpected Expenses
- How I Save
- Sarah's Recommendations
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About the Financial Literacy Center
The FLC's mission is to develop and test innovative programs to improve financial literacy and promote informed financial decisionmaking.
With support from the Social Security Administration, the Center was established in October 2009 by the RAND Corporation, Dartmouth College, and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in order to develop educational tools and programs that help individuals prepare for their long term financial stability.
About the Program
Presented by the Financial Literacy Center, a joint center established by the RAND Corporation, Dartmouth College, and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in order to develop educational tools and programs that help individuals prepare for their long-term financial stability.
Hopes for Retirement
The Dartmouth Project
Increasing employee participation in retirement plans has always been a challenge.
However, researchers at Dartmouth College, through a grant provided by the National Endowment for Financial Education, show that specific low-cost strategies succeed in boosting employee participation rates.
