{"id":412205,"date":"2026-05-05T02:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T02:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/412205\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T02:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T02:25:09","slug":"can-you-afford-to-retire-if-you-want-to-travel-overseas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/412205\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you afford to retire if you want to travel overseas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Ms Wise, I\u2019m trying to work out when I can retire and whether I need to reorganise my finances before I stop work. I\u2019m 60, single, have $700,000 in my super fund and $600,000 in savings and other investments. I own my apartment, earn $160,000 a year (including super) and spend $40,000 a year. I contribute about $1800 a month to super and estimate I\u2019ll spend $50,000-$60,000 a year in retirement (including two annual overseas trips). I\u2019d like to retire as soon as possible. \u2013 Catherine<\/p>\n<p>A: While the experts say Catherine\u2019s strong financial position means she can retire now, a key step is getting more of her savings and investments into superannuation.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dear Ms Wise, I\u2019m trying to work out when I can retire and whether I need to reorganise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[138,246,111,139,69,244,245],"class_list":["post-412205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}