Retired at 48: One Couple's Journey to a Pensionless Retirement

There was a time when it was common to have a company pension to live on after you stopped working. These days, company pensions are rare and a large percentage of the workforce needs to rely on their own savings to fund their retirement years. How do you figure out how much you need to retire, and how many years that money will last? Do you dream of retiring early and wonder how you could make that happen?

Retired at 48 documents one couple's quest to answer these questions and their path to …