So back story. Last year we went from 2 choices to 1 for our 403b. I went around with HR a bit because it seemed to be that they were choosing the 1 with higher fees. Eventually they got around to telling me and everyone else that both providers were changing fee structures so they went with the lowest one. But due to our overall low account balances the fees kind of suck. So my interest in retirement planning is well known to them. I'm not that worried about them finding out I want to FIRE. But I don't want to blatantly broadcast it either.
Oh and we do not have a match, but a fixed contribution made based on your salary. So you do nothing and they put some money in. Which is nice but since it isn't a match I think people don't think as much about how they need to contribute.
The provider we have does do 1 on 1 sessions but they are shiite. They are the usual generic make sure you have a balanced portfolio, if you don't know you should do a target date fund (which oh by the way have sky high fees compared to the vanguard index funds we have). We all had to sit through a mandatory group session last year about the change over anyway.
Also since last year people who became aware that I was interested in retirement planning because of my questions at such group sessions have approached me for advice. But not everyone knows my interest because there were multiple of those information sessions. Because of my interest in it, people coming to me, the knowledge the more people contribute the more bargaining power we'll have over fees, and a request from the higher ups for ideas to improve work life balance that I am pursuing this with them.
JL Collins Stock Series. It'll come right up on Google. Has a ton of info about stocks/bonds/retirement account vehicles. There are a couple parts that are focused toward how to practically implement an early retirement but 90% of it is just good ol' helpful information. It's the first place I send anyone that asks me.
I agree a great source. I own his book too. I'll reread it and see how heavily it mentions FIRE. If not too bad maybe I'll use it.
The financial/retirement planning training my workplace provides is terrible, and everyone knows it.
We also have periodic "lunch and learn" sessions where employees talk on topics of their choosing that may be interesting to others in the workplace. So last year I volunteered to provide in-house training on our defined-contribution plan. It took quite a bit of research on my part to make sure I had all the facts. That time was worth it for me since I learned some things even though I thought I already had a good handle on all that. I had about 20 people attend (out of ~100 in my org), and received a lot of positive feedback. I even had a request to give it again. (Maybe that will be my last task before I FIRE in the spring...)
Sounds like what I was originally thinking. Care to share any information? Obviously the generic sort of information.
Also I was thinking about something like MMM's post the Surprisingly simple math behind early retirement. But just changing it to the simple math behind retirement.