A lot can happen in the course of one year, and it usually does, so be sure to schedule annual reviews into your long term planning efforts. An Annual Review of Your Long Term Planning Will Help You Make Timely Course Corrections From your health to your income to the place you live, the likelihood
Shortfall Risk is the Greatest Risk to Retirement Success The greatest risk to retirement success? For most of us, it’s shortfall risk ‒ the chance that our savings will expire before we do. Shortfall risk typically arises from one or both of these shortcomings: (1) not taking the time and doing the work to study
Retirement Distribution Planning May Help Minimize Your Overall Tax Expenses You’ll likely need to develop a retirement distribution planning strategy to help you minimize your overall tax expenses and help fund a more comfortable retirement, even after you’ve saved diligently and invested wisely throughout your working years. Without a retirement distribution planning strategy, you may
With the days of company pensions faded into memory, it’s up to most of us to build and manage our own pension plans ‒ and manage the multi-million dollar retirement planning question ourselves. How much do we need? And what are the possibilities that we suffer shortfall risk – the possibility that our savings will
There’s a great bumper sticker out there that reads: “Organized people are just too lazy to search for stuff.” The quip gave me a laugh when I saw it a couple of years back while sitting at a traffic light. To some of us, the idea of being organized seems humorously far-fetched – and more
The retirement landscape is changing quickly, and it’s not a pretty picture. According to a recent survey conducted by Harris Poll on behalf of Northwestern Mutual, today’s earners expect to work longer than previous generations – and not necessarily by choice. What’s more, a strikingly large percentage of workers expect that they will never retire
Saving enough for retirement is something to be proud of. But even if you’ve bucked the trend and amassed a good-size nest egg, it’s critical to have a sound strategy for withdrawing your money. Living large early in retirement could cause you to run out of money in your later years, after all. On the
Warren Buffett has attributed much of his well-known investment success to two rules. Rule #1: Never lose money. Rule #2: Never forget Rule #1. What the Oracle of Omaha is reminding us, in a humorous way, is to keep our eye on the return of our capital, even more so than the return on our
Americans have a retirement savings problem ‒ for some Baby Boomers, “crisis” is not too strong a word ‒ and it’s causing a fair amount of anxiety. Recent surveys cite statistics like these: more than a third of all working-age adults haven’t saved any money toward retirement; 41% of folks in their 50s are not
Looking forward to retirement? If you’ve built a nice nest egg, you’ve taken care of one of the critical tasks in preparing for retirement. But simply having significant savings doesn’t mean you’re ready to retire well. For those planning to hang ‘em up in two to three years, it’s essential to work your way through
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