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The Greatest Risk to Retirement Success?

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

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Retirement Distribution Planning

Retirement Distribution Planning May Help Minimize Your Overall Tax Expenses If you’ve diligently saved and invested throughout your working years, congratulations! You’re on your way to funding a more comfortable retirement. But when you finally do stop working, you’ll face a new challenge: Making sure that your assets last as long as possible. One way

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Investing Lessons from the Pension World

Investing lessons from the pension world help us to focus on the critical importance of matching our long-term retirement liabilities with proper long-term investment assets. Investing Lessons from the Pension World Help Us Generate Better Retirement Expense Estimates Asset/liability matching originated in the pension world.  Pension managers are responsible for meeting specific objectives, namely, paying

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The Multi-Million Dollar Retirement Planning Question

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

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The Psychology of Money

The the key takeaway from the first chapter of Morgan Housel’s remarkable book, The Psychology of Money – “Every decision people make with money is justified by taking the information they have at the moment and plugging it into their unique mental model of how the world works.” This book is one of the best

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Getting to The “Right” Retirement Income Plan

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

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The Best Time to Take Social Security

To most people, Social Security seems like a very simple concept: You pay in to the system during your working years, then you retire and start getting those monthly checks. But if you want to maximize your benefits (and who doesn’t), you need to study how and when to start taking your benefits. You need

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Retirement Mistakes to Avoid

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

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Planning For Your Retirement: The Home Stretch

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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