Ep 19: Dynamic Strategy: Retirement Income Planning Series – Part 4
When building a financial plan that’s based around investing, it’s important to take into account a handful of dynamic elements that will likely vary quite a bit throughout your retirement. Tune in to our fourth installment of the series to hear how you can organize your plan around dynamic market expectations, dynamic allocations, and dynamic spending. Continue reading
Ep 18: Total Return Portfolio: Retirement Income Planning Series – Part 3
If you’re taking a probability-based approach to investing as we discussed in the first part of this series, you’ll need to build a strategy for how to most efficiently invest your savings to provide an income throughout retirement. That’s where the Total Return Portfolio comes into play. Continue reading
Annuity Guaranteed Withdrawal Benefits: Just Expensive or Worthwhile?
In prior columns I’ve written about a framework to consider how to generate retirement income. On one hand you have insurance-based strategies that have an underlying income guarantee and on the other investing-based strategies that are probability-based. Guarantees are today … Continue reading
Ep 17: Bad-Timing Risk: Retirement Income Planning Series – Part 2
We continue on with the series by discussing a lesser known type of risk called bad-timing risk. What happens when you retire into a bad period in the market? How can a few years of negative returns affect the outcome of your retirement? Continue reading
Ep 16: Retirement Income Planning Series – Part 1
For many people, one of the biggest fears going into retirement is where money will come from when you’re no longer receiving a paycheck. That’s why creating a retirement income plan is so essential. Join us as we go over the basic strategies for building a retirement income plan on this first episode of the series. Continue reading
Fashion Fads Are Fun. Investment Fads Can Be Harmful.
Fads can be fun. Look at the 1980s: big hair, shoulder pads, acid washed jeans, MC Hammer pants, neon clothes, and the mullet. I personally enjoyed a variation of the mullet – a little Bart Simpson spike coupled with bangs … Continue reading
Ep 15: Integrated Advice Is Better Advice
When it comes to building a holistic retirement plan, all of the individual pieces should be working together harmoniously, whether that’s planning, investing, or taxes. Let’s talk about why integrated advice is often hard to come by, and why it’s crucial to building a successful retirement plan. Continue reading
Ep 14: Expected Investment Return Forecasts
You’ve likely heard that making short-term predictions about the market is just about impossible, but what about long-term predictions? Can experts accurately anticipate what will happen over the next 10 years? Kevin discusses a recent Morningstar article by Christine Benz about what you can take away from long-term stock and bond return predictions. Continue reading
Bad Investor Behavior Again Causes Financial Harm
When U.S. stocks, as measured by the S&P 500 index, fell 13.52% in 2018’s fourth quarter, many felt like the market was in the midst of a major collapse. And their behavior showed it. In December alone, U.S. investors pulled … Continue reading
Ep 13: Deconstructing Variable Annuities & Why Commissions Drive Their Sale
If you listened to Episode #12, you heard the rundown on just about every type of annuity except the variable annuity. So what exactly is involved in a variable annuity? Why is it almost like a four-letter word to so many in the retirement community? Kevin will give you the details on what these annuities do, what you should look out for, and if there ever truly is a reason you would want to invest in one. Continue reading
