Retirement: Definition and additional resources from BNET
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Business Definition for: Retirement

  • the voluntary or forced termination of employment because of age, illness, or disability. Retirement age is often stipulated in the contract of employment. Differences between the retirement ages of men and women are no longer allowed in many countries. Employees may take early retirement from their employer, or may, with the agreement of their employer, take gradual, or phased retirement. A pension may be drawn on reaching retirement age.

Wiktionary Definition for: Retirement

  • The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer; the portion of one's life after retiring from one's career.
  • obsolete : A place of seclusion or privacy; a place to which one withdraws or retreats; a private abode.

Additional Resources

Helping Your Employees Plan For Retirement
Are your employees saving enough for retirement? Do they know how much to save? Workers who receive employer-provided educational material about retirement planning and saving are more likely than those who do not to have earmarked money for retirement, to have attempted to determine their retirement income needs, and to...
Tags: Finance, Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Retirement
White papers 2002-08-28
Applying for Retirement
You should inquire about retirement at least six months before your retirement date. This will give you enough time to review your benefits and options. You may also request an Estimate of Retirement Benefits, which estimates your monthly retirement allowance, the benefits payable to your beneficiary upon your death under...
Tags: Retirement, Human Resources, Benefits
White papers 2002-01-01
Calculating Your Own Retirement Allowance
When you apply for retirement, you will have to choose one of nine ways to receive your retirement benefits. Please be sure you understand the different payment options available to you because, once you have made your choice and your retirement becomes due and payable (usually when your first check...
Tags: Payment Option, Payment, Benefit, Operational Accounting, Finance
White papers 2002-09-01
How Much Will You Need For Retirement?
Many people have no idea how much they should be saving for retirement and thus quite often they do whatever their retirement counselor suggests without actually knowing if what they're doing is right. This tool will help you to determines how much will you need for retirement.
Tags: Retirement, Cable News Network, Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking
Tools & templates 2008-01-01
Retirement payment options
To plan for a successful retirement, you must be familiar with the retirement payment options available to you from the retirement system. You should also consider your financial needs in retirement, your health, your beneficiary's health, the need to provide survivor benefits, life insurance benefits available, income from other sources,...
Tags: Finance, Human Resources, Operational Accounting, Benefits, Payment, Retirement, Payment Option
White papers 2003-06-14
Retirement Shortfall
One of the biggest risks to a comfortable retirement is running out of money too soon. This tool helps you determine your projected shortfall or surplus at retirement. You can also see just how long your current retirement savings will last. If your results project a shortfall, you might need...
Tags: Retirement, Productivity, Strategy, Security, Management
Tools & templates 2008-01-01
How To Be A Retirement Planning Hero
The life after retirement offers plentiful opportunities to grow and contribute constructively towards society. The need is to plan carefully for the post-retirement era. The ups and downs of the stock markets play a major role in retirement planning. If the stock market shows upwardly trends, the entrepreneurs sell their...
Tags: Retirement, Stock, Stock Market, Investment, Finance
White papers 2002-11-01
How About Some Retirement Planning ABC's?
Retirement planning is essential to make the post-retirement period comfortable and hassle-free. People should have a thorough understanding of the investments involved in retirement planning. Their nuances play a major part in charting out the retired life. The paper examines basic principles of retirement planning.
Tags: Retirement, Investment, Finance
White papers 2003-01-01
Retirement Education Is Not Enough
Retirement benefits are a key component of an employer's compensation and benefits package. Most employees view retirement as their single most important savings objective. Yet many have not done the rigorous homework associated with securing the kind of lifestyle they envision for their later years. An employee approaching retirement needs...
Tags: Education, Retirement, Mercer Human Resource Consulting, Retirement Education, Benefits, Human Resources
White papers 2005-08-01
Future Looks Bright For Retirement Plans
Life after retirement can be bright and prosperous if meticulous retirement planning is done beforehand. In recent years, many retirement saving plans have been introduced which cater to the needs of different class of individuals. These plans include the 401k plans and the Individual Retirement Account IRA. For workers in...
Tags: Retirement, 401(k), Retirement Plans, Investment, Human Resources, Benefits, Finance
White papers 2001-08-01
Prudential Names New President of Retirement Business
NEWARK, N.J. -- Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE:PRU) today named Christine C. Marcks president of Prudential Retirement, a total retirement services business offering retirement plan solutions for public, private, and non-profit organizations. Marcks, a 20-year veteran in the retirement and related financial services industry, currently oversees the company's personal retirement services...
Tags: Prudential Insurance Company of America
Research articles 2007-08-21
Deferred Retirement
Deferred Retirement is available to those members who have at least ten years of service credit and are not yet 60 years of age (55 for PFRS members) when they terminate employment. A member who is terminated from employment for cause on charges of misconduct or delinquency is not eligible...
Tags: Deferred Retirement, Human Resources, Benefits
White papers 2001-07-01
Fidelity Research Finds Husbands and Wives Approaching Retirement Have Different Understanding of Their Financial Plans
Married Couples More Likely To Agree on Retirement Product Ownership, But Many Disagree on Expected Retirement Age, Lifestyle and Plans to Work in Retirement
Tags: Fidelity Investments, financial
Research articles 2007-04-17
Transamerica Retirement Services Launches New Fund Offering; Target Retirement Funds Provide Straightforward Investment Management Solution for Retirement Plan Participants
LOS ANGELES -- Transamerica Retirement Services ('Transamerica')(1) has launched a new fund lineup to help make retirement planning and saving easier for its 450,000 small business retirement plan participants. New Target Retirement Funds from Vanguard offer all-in-one portfolios, providing a simple yet comprehensive means for individuals to build assets for...
Tags: Transamerica Corp.
Research articles 2004-10-11
How Much Will I Need To Save For Retirement?
Retirement can be the saddest or happiest day of your life. This pre-retirement tool will help you think of ways to improve your retirement outlook. It is important that you re-evaluate your preparedness on an ongoing basis. Changes in economic climate, inflation, achievable returns, and in your personal situation will...
Tags: Retirement, Yahoo! Inc., Currency & Foreign Exchange, Productivity, Finance
Tools & templates 2008-01-01
Retirement Investing: A New Approach
This paper proposes a new approach to investing for retirement that takes advantage of recent market innovations and advances in finance theory to improve the risk/reward opportunities available to individual investors before and after retirement. The approach introduces three new elements: · It uses inflation-protected bonds to hedge a...
Tags: Retirement, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance
White papers 2001-03-08
Retirement Benefits Overview
As an employer, understanding retirement benefits is extremely important. Not only are an increasing number of baby boomers reaching the age of retirement, but also many younger employers are expressing a greater level of concern about how they will fund an ample period of retirement. In fact, more workers at...
Tags: Retirement, Employer, Benefits, Human Resources
White papers
Retirement Planner
Do you know what it takes to work towards a secure retirement? Use this tool to help you create your retirement plan. View your retirement savings balance and your withdrawals for each year until the end of your retirement. Social security is calculated on a sliding scale based on your...
Tags: Retirement, Social Security, Operational Accounting, Government, Finance
Tools & templates 2008-01-01
Retirement Pension Planner
Do you know what it takes to work towards a secure retirement? Use this tool to help you create your retirement plan. View your retirement savings balance and your withdrawals for each year until the end of your retirement. Social security is calculated on a sliding scale based on your...
Tags: Retirement, Social Security, Operational Accounting, Government, Finance
Tools & templates 2008-01-01
``The New Retirement Survey'' from Merrill Lynch Reveals How Baby Boomers Will Transform Retirement
NEW YORK -- The Retirement Most Boomers Envision IS Achievable Yet Standard Retirement Planning Models Fail to Capture the Complexity of Boomers' Actual Plans and Aspirations
Tags: Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.
Research articles 2005-02-22
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