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General Retirement
- About.com Retirement
  Provides general retirement information, with details on many different specific retirement options and a glossary of terms.
- Administration of Aging, US Department of Health and Human Services
  Provides a list of online resources for retirement planning that includes booklets and brochures, links to other financial planning websites, and calculators of future retirement needs.
- Alliance for Investor Education
  Includes financial planning basics for younger and older investors, along with information on funds, stocks, and bonds.
- American Savings Education Council
  Features online planning worksheets, retirement personality profiler, information on women and pensions.
- CNN Money
  Provides information on IRAs, 401(K), asset allocation, and setting personal financial goals toward retirement.
- Federal Consumer Information Center
  Choose "Money" from the list of topics on the left side of the page. This site offers several publications to help you with your retirement planning and other money matters.
- Kiplinger
  Understand how to choose an IRA and calculate how much you will need for retirement.
- Morningstar
  Morningstar is a global investment research firm that offers their Retirement Center as a general resource for many different retirement topics.
- MSN Money
  Includes guides for investment planning, investing tools, investing basics, and retirement calculators.
- SaveWealth.com
  Offers information on annuities, modified endowment contracts and Roth IRAs. Also provides links to talk with Save Wealth professionals about retirement planning.
- Smart Money Magazine
  Offers a wide range of retirement planning and investing topics.
- Social Security Administration
  Provides news, legislation, policy, links. Request your Personal Earnings and Benefits Estimate.
- The Bond Market Foundation
  Offers step-by-step instructions on how to begin saving now, advice for all age groups at different life stages.
- US Dept. of Labor
  Provides information on retirement plans, benefits, and savings.
- Women's Institute for Financial Education
  WIFE.org is a helpful website for women of all ages explaining the importance of understanding your finances and suggestions for retirement planning.
- Yahoo Finance
  Provides basics of retirement planning, accompanied by investing resources.
Government Employee
- NC Supplemental Retirement Plans
  Provides information regarding the NC 401(k) and NC Deferred Compensation retirement savings plans for NC state and local government employees including teachers, community college and university employees. The site includes information on how to enroll, investment performance, plan information and a good calculator.
- TIAA-CREF
  TIAA-CREF is the nationwide retirement system for people who work at colleges, universities, independent schools, and other nonprofit educational and research institutions throughout the U.S. Offers online Retirement 101 course and explains how retirement plans work.
Other Retirement Resources
- New York Times Online
  This section of the New York Times offers links to all NYT articles that relate to retirement issues.
- North Carolina Bankers Association
  NCBA.com provides a listing of all member banks in North Carolina with links to their websites. Several of these banks' websites provide information regarding retirement planning by clicking on a link off their homepage.
- Principal Financial Group
  Offers retirement solutions including annuities, IRAs, mutual funds, life insurance, personal savings, social security, advice on your company's retirement plan, and income calculators.
- Prudential Financial
  Offers case studies for different life stages, products for retirement planning and advice on changing jobs and rolling over retirement savings, and an extensive tutorial on how to start planning for retirement.
Retirement Associations
- AARP
  Offers an array of financial advice targeted to individuals over 50.
- NC Retired Governmental Employees Association
  Outlines benefits of being a member, legislative news pertaining to retirees, and a link to the NC Retirement System.
- NC Retired School Personnel
  Covers retirement issues affecting retired educators.