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Financial Planning January 1, 2011 Craig L. Israelsen |
Measuring Stick It's worth the effort to calculate the performance of a mutual fund under different investing assumptions. |
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 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 Planning September 1, 2008 Craig L. Israelsen |
A Perfect Portfolio Investment portfolios should include a wide variety of diverse assets. Each one adds an important dimension to the portfolio because it behaves differently. |
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. |
Financial Planning February 1, 2006 John Nersesian |
Hatching a Nest Egg As the baby boomers approach retirement, financial planners will have to shift their focus from accumulation to distribution. Here's what matters. |
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. |
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. |
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 May 1, 2010 Craig L. Israelsen |
Built to Last Every retiree wants to build a resilient retirement portfolio. One of the most important parts of such a portfolio is durability.A durable portfolio is one which outlasts the retiree. |
Financial Advisor June 2007 William P. Bengen |
Portfolio Tides Here is how to orchestrate your financial advisory clients' retirement withdrawal plans. |
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 Planning August 1, 2013 Craig L. Israelsen |
Does the Sequence of Market Returns Matter? The markets have good years and bad years, but the impact on a client s investments depends on the timing. |
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 April 1, 2011 Craig L. Israelsen |
Still Seeking Stability The challenge today for planners is prudently choosing and utilizing a sufficiently wide variety of asset classes so as to create a truly diversified and stable portfolio -- whether it's for the accumulation phase or the distribution phase of life. |
Financial Advisor March 2005 Jeff Schlegel |
Time & Money As a financial advisor, do you understand all the assumptions you are making regarding retirement account withdrawal rates? |
Financial Planning April 1, 2008 Craig L. Israelsen |
Seeking Stability Building a tough, strong, resilient and stable retirement portfolio is, very simply, what every retiree wants to do. What is the optimum allocation model to sustain this stability for clients? |
Financial Planning February 1, 2013 Craig L. Israelsen |
Investment Portfolio Survival Test If you have clients who have already retired, make sure their portfolios can absorb the most violent shocks. |
Financial Planning January 5, 2008 Craig L. Israelsen |
Stay Low Maintaining a low correlation among a portfolio's assets in the distribution phase can help avoid potentially devastating losses. |
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. |
Registered Rep. September 17, 2012 Alan Lavine |
Insuring Income You'd like to insure at least part of your client's income for life. But do you choose a variable annuity with a guaranteed lifetime withdrawal benefit? Or an immediate annuity? |
Registered Rep. June 4, 2012 Stan Luxenberg |
Say Goodbye to Traditional Asset Allocation Factor investing, meant to lower volatility, caught on in academia two decades ago. Asset managers are only too eager to roll out funds based on the concept. |
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. |
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 September 1, 2008 David E. Adler |
Tackling the Spend-Down The message that retirees with 401(k)s will have to make a decision about how to structure their assets in retirement to avoid running out of money is loud, but not clear. |
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. |
Financial Advisor February 2008 Jay Kabad |
Something To Live With? Billions of dollars are now being invested in variable annuities. Part of the attraction are the guarantees, the so-called living benefits. |
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 September 1, 2007 Joseph A. Tomlinson |
Live Long and Prosper How can you help clients balance their asset needs with longer life expectancies? Longevity insurance may do the trick. |
The Motley Fool October 2, 2006 Dan Caplinger |
A Million Bucks Ain't What It Used to Be Making a million is a worthy goal, and for some, it would provide adequate resources for their needs. Before you decide that you've made enough, however, think about what that million will be worth. The odds are that it won't be what it used to be. |
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. |
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. |
BusinessWeek May 28, 2009 Kalwarski & Levisohn |
Finding Higher Returns With Lower Risk There is surging interest in low-volatility investment strategies. Still, some investors are finding ways to make volatility work for them. |
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. |
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. |
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 Planning July 1, 2013 Craig L. Israelsen |
Best Way to Increase Retirement Savings In helping clients increase their retirement savings, which is more important: higher contributions or higher returns? |
Registered Rep. November 17, 2010 Kevin McKinley |
Ways to Maximize Clients' 529 Funds Here's how your clients can maximize the funds they net from 529 withdrawals made in the most common scenarios. |
Registered Rep. October 1, 2006 Kristen French |
Long-Short Funds Catching On Long-short mutual funds have gotten more popular with investors in the last few years, as they increasingly look for low-volatility returns in an unpredictable market. |
Financial Planning February 1, 2006 Donald Jay Korn |
Annuities Special: The Right Rider Boomers want guaranteed lifetime income, but don't want to buy an immediate annuity. Variable annuity issuers think they have a solution. |
Financial Advisor September 2005 Marla Brill |
The Tuition Test A wrong decision on paying for college can cost you in taxes or lost aid. |
Bank Systems & Technology November 4, 2008 Maria Bruno-Britz |
Privier's New ATM Service Requires No Card, Account The new service will allow the unbanked to transfer cash using envelope-free ATMs. |
American Family Physician March 15, 2004 |
Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome Questions, answers, and recommendations on alcohol withdrawl syndrome. |
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 December 2007 Lewis Walker |
Retirement As A Mess Of Maybes Helpful advice is everywhere, but retirees and preretirees may wonder if financial advisors are creating a numerical Tower of Babel. |
Financial Advisor October 2012 Roy Diliberto |
Cash Flow In Retirement Clients take a different view than advisors. |
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 November 2012 Ben Mattlin |
The 4% Solution Is it still a feasible retirement withdrawal strategy? |
The Motley Fool January 28, 2004 Robert Brokamp |
Save More Now, Play Much More Later If you socked away an additional $100 a month, how much would your retirement improve? |