The biggest retirement risk no one talks about
May 12, 2014
New York Post - “As we get older, our prefrontal cortex has a more difficult time tamping down emotions, and it may have more difficulty putting complex information into context,” Michael S. Finke of Texas Tech University told me.
You won’t see it in television ads about retirement. You won’t hear it at investment conferences. You probably won’t read much about it in newspapers or personal finance magazines or on the Internet.
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“As we get older, our prefrontal cortex has a more difficult time tamping down emotions, and it may have more difficulty putting complex information into context,” Michael S. Finke of Texas Tech University told me.