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Speeding Toward Retirement? It’s Time to Consult Your Financial GPS

It’s rare these days to see anyone pull out a paper map to figure out how to get where they are going.

Instead, most of us plug our current location and our destination into our car or our phone, and GPS plots out a route, advising us of each turn and alerting us if we get sidetracked.

Retirement planning, when done right, can work in much the same way. If you are nearing retirement, it’s time to consult the financial version of a GPS – a step-by-step guide to help you arrive at and navigate

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