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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. |
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. December 24, 2014 Kevin McKinley |
Withdrawal Strategies For Early Retirees Early retirees have to deal with hassles, taxes and penalties if they need to withdraw money from individual retirement accounts, Roth IRAs, and the like. |
Registered Rep. July 30, 2012 Kevin McKinley |
Income Strategies for Early Retirees Those who stop working before reaching their "Golden Years" require a specific sort of assistance. |
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. |
The Motley Fool March 11, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
Smart Moves to Secure Your Retirement It takes a lifetime of smart investing to build up the nest egg you need to have a financially secure retirement. Once you've successfully retired, though, it still takes clever planning to hang onto as much of your money as you possibly can. |
Investment Advisor September 2009 Lewis Schiff |
The Affluentialist: Building Retirement Portfolios Now Few advisors use a cookie cutter approach to retirement income support. |
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. |
On Wall Street October 1, 2009 Lauren Barack |
The New Retirement Portfolio Repairing retirement portfolios is front and center for every advisor. Unfortunately, depending on an investor's age, rebuilding back to their old balances may not be possible. |
Financial Planning October 1, 2011 Donald Jay Korn |
Age Is Just a Number Clients must withdraw at least certain amounts from their retirement accounts when they reach the age specified under the tax code. Those trying to skip complying face a 50% penalty on any shortfall. |
The Motley Fool December 20, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Don't Let Uncle Sam Steal Your Retirement Making the most of tax-protected accounts is essential. |
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. |
The Motley Fool April 13, 2006 Robert Brokamp |
Dueling Fools: IRA Bear What's the real cost of that tax-deferral? More than you think. Yes, IRAs rule. But for every rule, there are exceptions. And there are times when contributing to an IRA may not be the best arrangement. |
Registered Rep. November 16, 2010 Alan Lavine |
Growth Opportunities: Immediate Annuities And Qualified Retirement Plans There's a window of opportunity for financial advisors to build business: They can use annuities available in 401k plans to help workers with their post-retirement income. |
Financial Advisor November 2007 William Glasgall |
Income For Life? Well, We Hope So. A look at new products that are supposed to create "personal pensions" for your clients: Dividends Galore With ETFs... Mutual Funds Aim For Payouts... Advisors Warm To Immediate Annuities... etc. |
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. |
Financial Planning April 1, 2005 Jerome S. Golden |
Paying It Forward Immediate annuities can add income security and wealth accumulation to the retirement mix. |
On Wall Street November 1, 2010 Gallant & Schneider |
Navigating The Retirement Business The demand for retirement income support will continue to grow rapidly in the coming years as the aging of the baby boom generation is inevitable. |
The Motley Fool August 24, 2006 Dan Caplinger |
Relieve Your Tax Burden: Part 2 Tax-favored accounts like Roth IRAs, qualified retirement plans, and 529 plans present some useful options to investors. Here's a guide to the quirks of less aggressive investment accounts. |
On Wall Street April 1, 2010 |
Five Questions with Robert Arena Bob Arena is well aware that baby boomers are juggling their own retirement needs against school expenses of children and living costs of parents and talks about how advisors can help their clients handle all these responsibilities. |
Registered Rep. June 1, 2012 Kevin McKinley |
Goosing Returns by Reducing Taxes Take a look at your clients' 1040s to show how you can save them real money right now, and in retirement. |
Registered Rep. October 1, 2006 Kristen French |
It's Triage Time There are millions of baby boomers zooming toward retirement who have vastly underestimated their future financial needs. In other words, for financial advisors and their clients, it's triage time. |
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. July 21, 2010 Kevin McKinley |
The Social Security Flip In the current economic environment one of the greatest challenges faced by financial advisors is how to boost income for retired, risk-averse clients. |
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. |
The Motley Fool October 17, 2006 Dan Caplinger |
Don't Get the Savings Munchies! Stick to your savings goals despite all the available distractions. |
Financial Planning January 1, 2012 Charles Farrell |
Retirement by Design Helping investors live off their wealth is a very different business from helping them build wealth. But managing retirement income is something every advisor needs to learn how to do -- and soon. |
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? |
Investment Advisor February 2009 Kara P. Stapleton |
Retirement News & Products Recent research by the Investment Company Institute found that despite a 40% drop in the U.S. stock markets, the vast majority of U.S. workers who invest for retirement via 401(k) plans are staying the course. |
Registered Rep. May 21, 2015 Kevin McKinley |
Six Questions to Ask Before Rolling Over a Retirement Account Casually and carelessly moving all of the money from a client's 401(k) or 403(b) to a self-directed IRA can mean lost opportunities, higher taxes, and unnecessary costs to the client. |
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. |
Registered Rep. January 18, 2013 Kevin McKinley |
Forget Chasing Yield; Cut Taxes for Extra Income Stop chasing higher yields, returns, and risks, and instead use these methods to reduce your working clients' income tax bills. |
Financial Advisor August 2007 Tracey Longo |
What's Your Retirement Brand? Unless you're branding yourself a retirement income planning specialist and it's clear in clients' minds you're going to do retirement income planning for them, your client relationships honestly may be in peril. |
Registered Rep. July 1, 2004 Stan Luxenberg |
The Problem With a Long Life Academics are stepping forward, seeking to describe portfolios that will produce maximum returns while ensuring that retirees don't outlive their assets |
Financial Advisor March 2011 Bruce W. Fraser |
Stand And Deliver Yes, you can grow income as a retirement income specialist. Find out how. |
Registered Rep. October 1, 2005 Stan Luxenberg |
Taking the Sting Out of Taxes For high-net-worth investors, tax-sheltered accounts offer special opportunities. Because they need not worry about exhausting savings, wealthy clients can use shelters creatively to derive maximum tax and investing benefits. |
The Motley Fool April 13, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Get the Most From Your IRA You know you need one. Here's what to do with it. |
Financial Planning August 1, 2013 Ilana Polyak |
New Rules for Asset Location Taxable account or tax-deferred? Where clients investments are housed can be vital to total returns, but beware the pitfalls. |
The Motley Fool October 27, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
3 Tips for a More Secure Retirement You shouldn't need to worry about making ends meet. |
Financial Advisor February 2007 Joel Bruckenstein |
Easy-To-Use Retirement Software Although they have hitches, these professional retirement planning software packages are surprisingly good for basic planning: OppenheimerFunds Retirement Income Manager 2.0... Retirement Savings Planner From Torrid Technologies Inc... etc. |
Investment Advisor March 2010 Melanie Waddell |
Cover Story: Custom Job All signs point to 2010 as the year in which many substantive retirement planning reforms will either be cemented or set into motion by Congress and the Obama Administration. |
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 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 2008 Alan Lavine |
On Target, Or Not Think you can plunk down money on any target date fund as a low-risk way to accumulate retirement savings? Think again. |
Investment Advisor October 2007 Kara P. Stapleton |
IRA Rollovers Rebound There is a group of people with a significant amount of money that are in need of advisory services when it comes to IRA rollover accounts. |
The Motley Fool September 7, 2007 Rich Duprey |
Add Horsepower to Your Retirement Starting your retirement plan late? Just because you've fallen behind, there's no reason to stay behind. Supercharge it with this two-step program. |
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. |
Financial Planning July 1, 2008 Elizabeth O'Brien |
Foundation for Retirement Foundations and endowments can teach advisors strategies for constructing and maintaining retirement income portfolios. Here's a look at how. |
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? |
Registered Rep. April 16, 2014 Kevin McKinley |
RMDs: Take Out or Pay Up There may be several advantages for clients who wait to withdraw money from their retirement accounts -- up to a certain point. |