It’s never too early or late to become a knowledgeable investor. It can greatly impact your ability to realize your retirement goals.
The CRA plan is your plan. The savings are yours* and you can decide what you want to do with the contributions. You’re in the driver’s seat so go ahead and take control!
In this section, we make it easy for you to understand investment basics and how to start investing. And we’ll walk you through the differences between investing with prepackaged portfolios versus customizing your own strategy, and what to consider when choosing specific funds.
*Employer contributions may be dependent on fulfilling vested status requirements
Before you explore the myriad opportunities to potentially invest, let’s first review some basics and assess what kind of investor you are.
The information below goes over the key principals that help you start investing the right way.
How to decide which is right for you. Taking the first step is often the hardest part when you start investing. We make it easy by giving you two CRA options for both the 401(a) and 457(b) plans, and two added options with partner organizations.
To make planning for retirement a delightful and easy experience, we have assembled a variety of specific target date portfolios for employee participants. Each fund is uniquely designed to balance risks while satisfying growth targets for retirement savings.
In this guide, we have outlined four steps to assist you to choose and manage your individually allocated portfolio. The first step in creating a strong portfolio is to choose the right percentage of your investment to allocate for each major investment class (stocks, bonds, mutual funds and cash equivalents).
The intricacies of Social Security can be intimidating, but we’re here to help.
In this webinar, SSA Public Affairs Specialist, Josh Weller, reviews important considerations everyone should make when collecting Social Security.
No recording will be made available for this webinar
With 64 Medicare plan options available to Coloradoans, it may be difficult to determine the right one for you.
Fortunately, Lisa Gaglia-Bleyle from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services is here to help you make sense of these plans.
No recording will be made available for this webinar
Are you retirement ready?
Both financially and emotionally?
In the final webinar of the series, CRA Client Services Manager, Rick Chase, will help you to set a retirement savings goal, determine if you’re retirement-ready, and discuss important non-financial considerations when preparing for retirement, such as, what are you going to do with so much free time?
Colorado Retirement Association office will be closed on Monday, July 4 in observance of
Independence Day and will reopen on
Tuesday, July 5, 2022 at 8:00 am.
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