The Motley Fool's Roadmap To Retirement Self-Paced Online Seminar
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Congratulations! You've completed the Roadmap to Retirement Seminar! We hope you're well on your way to the retirement of your dreams, with your trusty Retirement Workbook in hand. Now that you've finished the seminar, please take a few moments to give us your feedback on the seminar. Your responses will help us improve our seminars for future participants - and we hope you'll be among them!

What was the outcome you most hoped to achieve by participating in this seminar?

Create my own retirement plan
Receive suggestions on how to improve my investing returns to meet my retirement goals
Find out how to retire early
Figure out how to best utilize my savings during retirement
Interact with other Fools
Other (Please specify): 
To what extent did you achieve your goal?
I feel like I definitely achieved my goal.
I feel like I have the tools to achieve my goal, but still have to put them into action.
I didn't feel like this seminar helped me achieve my goals at all.
Before we started, you rated the importance of different parts of the retirement process. Now that you have completed the course, how important do you think each of these things is to retirement planning?
(1 is very important, 5 is not very important.)
 1  2  3  4  5
Deciding what I want to do when I'm retired
Creating a budget and a savings plan
Finding investments that will give me the best returns
Anticipating unexpected costs in retirement/ being prepared for illness
Making sure I have enough money to last throughout retirement
Avoiding over-payment of my taxes
Estate planning
After picking your retirement date, how realistic do you think it is?
Very realistic
I'm now thinking of retiring a little later
I'm now thinking of retiring a little earlier
I'm already retired
I'm not sure
Do you feel like you a sense of how much your retirement will cost you?
No, I'm still not sure.
I have a better sense than when I started.
I feel like I have a pretty good picture of it all.
I have a sense of what it takes to figure it out, but I haven't done it yet.
I thought I had a good picture of my retirement costs before I started, but my findings after taking the seminar are different from when I started.
This seminar confirmed my previous calculations.
How much do you think the following issues weigh into your retirement planning?
(1 is very important, 5 is not very important.)
 1  2  3  4  5
Having adequate medical insurance
Being covered for unexpected illness
Cost of housing
How you're going to spend your time
Taxes
Safe withdrawal rate
Long-term care
What are you going to do next (within the next 2 months)?
Go back and re-read some of the lessons.
Continue to work with my workbook.
Re-evaluate my investments.
Update my important documents.
Do a little research about how I want to spend my retirement.
Take a break!
Overall, how would you rate this seminar?
Excellent
Good
Moderate
Fair
Poor
The content of the lessons was:
Just right for me
Too easy
Too difficult
The content of the homework assignments was:
Just right for me
Too easy
Too difficult
How would you rate the value of seminar tools (calculators, graphs) and supplementary links (links to other reading materials)?
Excellent
Good
Moderate
Fair
Poor
I did not use any of these links or tools.
How would you rate the service and support from the Seminar Facilitators and other Motley Fool staff?
(Staff are those folks on the boards with TMF before their screen name and those "behind the scenes" who may have helped you with a seminar-related question.)
Excellent
Good
Moderate
Fair
Poor
Not applicable - I didn't encounter any
Would you enroll in another Motley Fool Seminar?
Yes, definitely
I'd consider it
Probably not
Any final thoughts or suggestions? We'd love to hear them! Please respond below with any suggestions for the Roadmap to Retirement Seminar or future Motley Fool Seminars.

Thank you very much for taking the time to give us your feedback on the Roadmap to Retirement Seminar. We hope to "see you" again in a future Motley Fool seminar. Fool on!

 

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