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money no enough?
By Patrick Lim  •  June 10, 2011

probably many of us will have seen jack neo's money no enough which was released to local cinemas on may 7, 1998 during the period of the infamous asian financial crisis*.

i have just read a sobering study conducted by Employee Benefit Research Institute of which confirms that most americans won't be able to afford retirement until age 80.

Americans earning between $31,200 and $72,500 will need to work to age 72 just to have a 50 percent chance of retiring, and those earning more than $72,500 can expect to reach age 65 to have a 50-50 shot of funding retirement, MarketWatch reports.

and it gets worse.

Many who are unable to retire will be forced to look for second jobs to make ends meet.

"Even those older Americans who are still working are looking for ways to make additional monies," says Art Koff, founder of RetiredBrains.com, which seeks ......
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By Patrick Lim
Patrick is an Associate Director with Promiseland. He has more than 20 years of personal investment experience both in stock and shares and unit trusts. In his early years as an investor, he got burnt really bad in the infamous 1987 crash and again during the clob incident. With 2 decades of so-called battle scars behind him, the last few years (since 2003) have been good to him especially with his single country funds doing exceptionally well. On his investing style, he is both a technical analyst and fundamentalist. Patrick view wealth accumulation as part and parcel of the wealth management process but only if one has already executed his/her wealth protection planning on an on-going basis.
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