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Journalists across the country ask for Marcia Mantell’s insights about a wide-range of retirement topics. Read the latest…

Journalists Turn to Marcia

Having in-depth knowledge about a topic as complex as retirement is one thing. Being able to translate those complexities into meaningful language for non-financial folks is something else. Marcia is well-known for bringing dry, jargon-laden, technical retirement language into everyday life. That’s why reporters seek her out. She’s also a respected source among journalists who focus on delivering important information and trends to financial advisors and the retirement industry.

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USA Today
January 31, 2020 Missing years? Zeroes? Here are key things to understand about your Social Security statements —by Robert Powell

Next Avenue.org
November 19, 2010 Next Avenue.org offers book excerpt from Marcia Mantell —by Richard Eisenberg

Hanover Mariner
November 23, 2019 Hanover Author Looks to Help Other Women with Social Security —by Audrey Cooney

ThinkAdvisor
November 19, 2019 What Divorced Women Should Know About Claiming Social Security —by Jane Wollman Rusoff

ThinkAdvisor
May 6, 2019 What Boomers Need, and Aren’t Getting, From Advisors —by Jane Wollman Rusoff

South Shore Senior News
Marcia is a featured speaker/workshop on “Becoming a Financial Fearless Female After Fifty”: Senior Celebration 2019, Randolph, MA, May 15, 2019

South Shore Senior News
May 2019, Q&A with South Shore Senior News: Let’s Talk About Money

Tribune News Service
January 4, 2018 Here are 10 Retirement Resolutions (According to Experts) To Make In 2018 —by Janet Kidd Stewart

ThinkAdvisor
January 19, 2018, Social Security Tips —by Janet Kidd Stewart

ThinkAdvisor
May 31, 2017, A Hidden IRA Benefit Most Advisors Miss —by Jane Wollman Rusoff

In Profile with Marcia Mantell – The Women’s Market
Carolyn Ellis, Advisor Magazine

Marcia A. Mantell

Marcia Mantell is the author of a What’s the Deal with Retirement Planning for Women, a how-to book that inspires and motivates women to be aggressive about retirement planning. From shoe shopping to learning the language of investments, Mantell speaks to women in no-nonsense yet compassionate terms.

Retirement planning for the 51 percent: 3 RIIA speakers weigh in
Warren S. Hersch, LifeHealthPro

Retirement planning for the 51 percent: 3 RIIA speakers weigh in

What are the typical financial and non-financial needs of women preparing for retirement? How might those needs change over time and impact the retirement plan? Which specialists should insurance and financial service professionals be partnering with to best serve women entering retirement?

New Book by Retirement Planning Maven, Marcia Mantell, Guides Women Through Key Questions
Susan Chanley, Advisor Magazine

What’s the Deal with Retirement Planning for Women?

Why is retirement planning different for women? Marcia Mantell, a leading retirement professional, blogger, and president of Mantell Retirement Consulting, Inc. based in Needham, MA, guides women through some of the questions they’ll need to answer before they will be prepared for retirement

Why Retirement Planning Is Different for Women
Jack Tater, MarketWatch, Retirementor

Why retirement planning is different for women

By When Sally Krawchuk was an executive at Merrill Lynch, she raised the need for the “thundering herd” of the firm’s financial advisors to ensure that discussions with clients meant not just ones with the husbands, but the wives as well.

Keep your income stream flowing through retirement.
Janet Kidd Stewart, Chicago Tribune

Keep your income stream flowing through retirement

Getting pre-retirees to view their retirement savings as a monthly paycheck is still an uphill battle. “The whole idea of designing an income stream is still not catching on until people are getting those last few checks before retiring and all of a sudden it dawns on them that pretty soon they’ll have to pay the electric bill out of their savings,” said Marcia Mantell, a former investment industry executive and author of “What’s the Deal With Retirement Planning for Women?”

Financial planning in your 60s
Take these steps now to ease the transition into your next life phase
Catherine Fredman, Consumer Reports Money Advisor

Financial Planning in Your 60s | Retirement – Consumer Reports

Financial planning, even in your 60s, can ease the transition to retirement. Consumer Reports offers a to-do list.

At Pershing Insite Conference, No Increase in Retirement Confidence From Clients
John Sullivan, Think Advisor

At Pershing Insite Conference, No Increase in Retirement Confidence From Clients | ThinkAdvisor

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Profiles in Success – Marcia Mantell’s interview with Research Magazine