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Financial Advisor July 2005 Dan Moisand |
No Easy Answers Retirement withdrawal rates remain the subject of much debate for financial advisors and clients alike. |
Financial Planning December 1, 2009 Dan Moisand |
Under My Rule of Thumb The withdrawal rate attempts to answer the question, How much money can a client spend in retirement without fear of running out of money? The 4% rule of thumb doesn't seem to always apply anymore. |
Financial Advisor October 2005 Gregory Bresiger |
Expect The Unexpected In Retirement Planning History can be dangerous for retirement planners offering portfolio longevity advice. Even when they're right about the long term, they can be very wrong in the short term, with disastrous consequences for the health, or even the survival, of a retirement portfolio. |
Financial Advisor June 2010 Eric Uhlfelder |
Making It Last It's easier to contribute to retirement accounts than it is to manage them for withdrawals. |
Registered Rep. November 1, 2005 Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Ignoring the Bear And Other Mistakes Retirees Make Advisors can greatly increase their clients' odds of success by steering them away from some of the most common -- and damaging -- retirement mistakes. Here are some of the biggies to avoid: Counting on steady returns... Forgetting about taxes... etc. |
BusinessWeek July 3, 2008 Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Spending Safely Advisers now concede that fluctuating conditions make rigid formulas for drawing down savings unrealistic. |
Financial Advisor May 2012 Bill Bengen |
How Much Is Enough? The father of the 4 1/2% rule for retirement portfolio withdrawals analyzes its past, present and future performance. |
Registered Rep. October 7, 2011 Stan Luxenburg |
Managing Retirement Account Withdrawals in Volatile Markets Retirees have long struggled with a difficult question: How much can you spend each year without going broke? To answer that question in difficult markets, advisors have developed a variety of flexible strategies. |
Financial Advisor July 2009 Sherri Scordo |
6% Withdrawal Rate OK What's the magic number for client withdrawal rates? Various research has long pointed to around 4%, but research in recent years has nudged that rate to higher levels. |
Financial Planning July 1, 2008 Bob Veres |
Market-Based Withdrawals A new report takes the discussion of sustainable withdrawal rates into an entirely new realm, quantifying what retirees will have to live on when they begin drawing down their portfolios, and offering a promising method for keeping that number reasonable, safe and generous. |
Financial Planning May 1, 2010 Donald Jay Korn |
Retirement NOW The idea of retirement has changed from a brief, blissful rest at the end of life to almost a second youth, with relatively few responsibilities, increased mobility and vast, open swaths of free time. |
Financial Advisor October 2012 Roy Diliberto |
Cash Flow In Retirement Clients take a different view than advisors. |
Financial Advisor June 2005 Joel P. Bruckenstein |
A Great Challenge Facing Advisors And Their Clients The greatest challenge that advisors face in the coming years is helping clients to make their money last a lifetime. Unfortunately, the profession and the software vendors that serve it have yet to offer clients the solutions that they deserve. |
Financial Advisor July 2011 Dan Moisand |
Is There A Safe Savings Rate? New research suggests that retirement planning should focus on savings, not withdrawals and accumulation targets. |
Registered Rep. February 8, 2013 Mark Miller |
What's a Safe Withdrawal Rate in Retirement? For years, the rule-of-thumb answer has been 4 percent, adjusted annually for inflation. But a growing number of financial planning experts are re-thinking that number. |
Financial Planning May 1, 2010 Donna Mitchell |
The Analyst William P. Bengen's work created a whole new financial planning subject-retirement income planning, now at the top of the industry's agenda. |
Financial Advisor October 2006 Mary Rowland |
The Fountain Of Extended Longevity Increasing life expectancies are -- or should be -- changing fundamental financial planning. |
Financial Planning February 1, 2007 Craig L. Israelsen |
The Math of Recovery Resilience after a loss may be the most important asset a retirement portfolio can offer. |
Financial Advisor April 2004 Raymond Fazzi |
Conservatism Rules In Retirement Planning After a traumatic four years marked by a recession, a war on terrorism and a market decline, many advisors are rethinking their retirement planning strategies. |
Financial Advisor April 2007 Eric Rasmussen |
Switching From Offense To Defense Financial planners look at the critical zone in the five years before and after retirement. |
Financial Advisor October 2008 Roy Diliberto |
The Dynamic Process Of Monitoring Goals It is our job -- no it is our obligation -- as planners to help our clients achieve their goals and dreams. That may involve changing our portfolios and the way we report results. |
Financial Planning April 1, 2005 Donald Jay Korn |
The Magic Number Determining how much wealth is enough to support retirement combines the art of managing expectations with the science of crunching numbers. |
Investment Advisor September 2005 Greg Salsbury |
Harvest Time As Americans live longer, advisors need to switch their emphasis from accumulating assets to making existing assets last. |
Financial Advisor November 2012 Ben Mattlin |
The 4% Solution Is it still a feasible retirement withdrawal strategy? |
Financial Advisor April 2007 Roy Diliberto |
Safe Withdrawal Rates--The Magic Bullet? Financial advisors should focus on what clients need to support their lifestyles. |
Financial Advisor June 2005 Dorothy Hinchcliff |
The Retirement Boom The 2005 Financial Advisor Retirement Planning Symposium hears of scenarios and solutions for the coming boomer retirees. |
Financial Advisor July 2011 Jeff Schlegel |
The Coming Retirement Wave Are Americans financially prepared for life after work? |
Financial Advisor February 2012 Ben Mattlin |
Making The Money Last How can advisors convince baby boomers to live within their means so they have enough for retirement? |
Financial Planning March 1, 2006 Joel P. Bruckenstein |
Move on Down the Road Retirement Road Map, one of the first asset distribution programs, takes a simple approach to a complex subject. With a few tweaks, it could become a truly useful tool for financial planners as well. |
Financial Planning May 1, 2011 Joseph A. Tomlinson |
Income Choices Retirement income is a growth industry, and the menu of products is expanding fast. Immediate annuities and variable annuities with living benefits are established products, while longevity insurance and standalone living benefits are more recent additions. |
Financial Planning December 1, 2009 Craig L. Israelsen |
Disappearing Act In light of the recent market implosion, clients are anxious to make up for lost time (and returns). When their needs in retirement are unrealistic, their portfolios cannot support them. However, the composition of their portfolios can mitigate the blow. |
Registered Rep. November 1, 2002 Pamela J. Black |
How to Be a Retirement Planning Hero Fixing a client's retirement plan (to the extent possible) may be the best opportunity brokers have today to create new business. |
On Wall Street January 1, 2010 Matthew Leung |
Getting Retirement Portfolios Back on Track Previous assumptions about asset allocation, diversification and the appropriate levels of risk in portfolios are being challenged. |
Financial Planning March 1, 2011 Craig L. Israelsen |
Nest Egg Survival After spending your working years accumulating money, you face a rude awakening in retirement when that growth is replaced by withdrawal. This drawdown phase might be described as the relentless cracking of the retirement nest egg. |
Financial Advisor October 2007 William Glasgall |
The New Retirement Wave Planners will need to seek innovative ways to help keep the baby boomers from exhausting their nest eggs. |
Registered Rep. August 15, 2011 Alan Lavine |
Investors Flock to Variable Annuities With Guaranteed Benefits, But Beware Retiring baby boomers are pouring their money into variable annuities with guaranteed lifetime withdrawal benefits. |
Financial Planning February 1, 2005 Jim Otar |
A Matter of Luck Contrary to popular opinion, there's more to portfolio success than the asset allocation decision. As an adviser, you can find peace of mind in recognizing and quantifying the luck factor for individual retirement portfolios. |
Registered Rep. June 21, 2011 Alan Lavine |
A Good Match: Managed Payout Funds and Annuities Combining a managed payout mutual fund with a deferred immediate annuity may be a simple way to help clients plan for retirement. |
Financial Advisor May 2012 Alan Lavine |
Sudden Impact How can advisors minimize the effect of large losses in a retirement portfolio just when clients want to begin withdrawals? |
Financial Advisor November 2011 Eric Rasmussen |
Withdraw, Don't Retreat Financial advisors discuss their strategies for retirement withdrawals in an era where every day in the markets is a new roll of the die. |
Financial Advisor June 2007 William P. Bengen |
Portfolio Tides Here is how to orchestrate your financial advisory clients' retirement withdrawal plans. |
Financial Advisor August 2008 Jef Schlegel |
The Clock Is Ticking If you believe the hype, the retirement picture isn't pretty. How secure are your clients' retirement plans? |
Investment Advisor March 2009 Melanie Waddell |
Cover Story: Patience In the quest to generate retirement income for their clients, many advisors relied on their investing-for-accumulation roots, and therefore were not focused on retirement income planning. |
On Wall Street September 1, 2013 Dave Lindorff |
The New Math of Retirement Many planning metrics, used forever to craft retirement portfolios, are no longer valid. Here are the new numbers and strategies you'll need when planning for your clients' tomorrow. |
The Motley Fool October 21, 2004 William Stecker |
How to Ruin Your Retirement How you allocate and spend down your nest egg will have a significant impact on your golden years. |
The Motley Fool May 20, 2005 William Stecker |
How to Ruin Your Retirement Rather work on crossword puzzles than resumes? A simple financial plan can avert disaster. |
On Wall Street October 1, 2011 Don Schreiber, Jr. |
The Beauty of Dividend-Paying Stocks With the vast majority of investors getting closer to retirement and becoming more risk adverse, advisors should create balanced portfolios using a mix of bonds and high-yielding dividend stocks to potentially increase return and reduce risk. |
Financial Advisor August 2009 Bruce W. Fraser |
Last Hand For Monte Carlo? Monte Carlo simulation, a popular retirement planning tool, is under scrutiny. |
Financial Planning February 1, 2008 Elizabeth O'Brien |
Retirement Income: The New Solutions The boomer retirement wave is here, and so are new products designed to turn their hoarded assets into cash flow. |
Financial Planning May 1, 2007 Bob Veres |
Taking on Retirement The latest thinking on how to serve clients in their retirement years ranges from customized distribution formulas to post-retirement career planning. |