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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 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 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 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 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 March 2005 Jeff Schlegel |
Time & Money As a financial advisor, do you understand all the assumptions you are making regarding retirement account withdrawal rates? |
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. |
Investment Advisor January 2010 Melanie Waddell |
Retirement Planning: Retirement Income a Riddle Advisors are still searching for best method to deliver retirement income. |
Financial Planning February 1, 2007 David Macchia |
Protect Retirement Financial advisors should pay attention to ROI -- not return on investment, but reliability of income. Planners must help clients assess the real capacity of their portfolios to generate long-term retirement income. |
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 November 1, 2008 Gregory P. Brown |
Target-Date Technique The simplicity of many existing target-date funds conceals a number of obstacles that can impede investors' efforts to adequately fund their retirement income needs. |
Investment Advisor May 2009 James J. Green |
Numerology: No One Way Researchers have discerned a number of core themes regarding how advisors are conducting retirement income planning. |
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 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 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. |
BusinessWeek July 3, 2008 Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Spending Safely Advisers now concede that fluctuating conditions make rigid formulas for drawing down savings unrealistic. |
Investment Advisor November 2007 Kara P. Stapleton |
Conversation Obligation Involving the client in retirement planning helps grow advisors' business. |
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. |
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. |
On Wall Street December 1, 2008 William Harding |
Endowments Offer Investment Lessons for Retirees The number of Americans who turn 65 each week could fill a sports stadium -- and they all need income. Portfolios for people saving for retirement should be structured differently from those already there. |
Financial Advisor October 2012 Roy Diliberto |
Cash Flow In Retirement Clients take a different view than advisors. |
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 Advisor October 2006 Mary Rowland |
The Fountain Of Extended Longevity Increasing life expectancies are -- or should be -- changing fundamental financial 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. |
Financial Planning August 1, 2007 Li et al. |
Meeting the Need Your clients need your help managing their retirement income. This three-stage process offers you a practical framework to serve them well. |
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 August 1, 2007 Len Reinhart |
Role Reversal The financial planning industry will have to meet the challenge of creating and managing portfolios that outlive their owners, provide inflation protection and guarantee financial peace of mind in the retirement years. |
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 March 2005 Evan Simonoff |
Editor's Note The task of generating an income stream that a retiree can survive on without draining all their assets grows more challenging each year. |
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 Advisor May 2011 Joel P. Bruckenstein |
Income Discovery Fiducioso Advisors helps build better retirement income plans. |
Financial Planning July 1, 2007 Marshall Eckblad |
Bookshelf The Wall Street Journal Complete Retirement Guidebook by Glenn Ruffenach and Kelly Greene provides priceless help in explaining the more complex facets of retirement planning to clients. |
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 August 1, 2007 Marshall Eckblad |
Advisor Pulse If a new survey is to be believed, advisors who help their clients with retirement planning -- and that's most of you -- will soon face a difficult choice: Change the way you service clients or watch your profits shrink. |
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 Advisor January 2012 Dan Moisand |
Are Clients Ready To Retire? Money is important, but various studies offer surprising findings on what matters the most. |
Registered Rep. June 26, 2015 Mark Miller |
When Retirement Comes Early Planners need to consider a range of more practical questions with clients weighing an early retirement. |
Financial Advisor February 2011 Somnath Basu |
Mistiming Retirement The portfolios of many people who retired shortly before the 2008 market crash still have not recovered. But advisors can help to mitigate such "sequence risks." |
The Motley Fool May 12, 2005 Glen Kenney |
Teaching Yourself to Retire Here are lessons on planning for retirement, like contacting your human resources department and local Social Security Administration office and perhaps even a certified financial planner. |
Registered Rep. March 8, 2013 Mark Miller |
Testing Two Retirement "Truisms" The consequences of living longer and a fragile Social Security trust fund on real world retirement plans are more significant than you think. |
Financial Planning December 1, 2005 Kathy Gevlin |
See Dick and Jane Retire...Without the Right Plan As baby boomers approach retirement, studies show a large majority of them are inadequately prepared for the financial planning challenges. Now's the time for planners to retool their retirement offerings to better meet consumers' needs. |
On Wall Street December 1, 2009 Geoffrey Stiff |
When Your Client's Retirement Plan Is Washed Away, You Can Rebuild it Investors who are close to retirement are emerging from their storm cellars to assess the damage their retirement portfolios suffered during last year's financial tornados. |
Financial Advisor November 2012 Ben Mattlin |
The 4% Solution Is it still a feasible retirement withdrawal strategy? |
Investment Advisor September 2006 |
Retirement Planning: Behind the Numbers Retirement planning is slowly evolving into a multidisciplinary field that includes not only accumulating assets for retirement and managing/protecting them within retirement, but also integrating retirement as a key transition in life. |
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. |
Investment Advisor June 2006 Megan L.F. Robert |
Retirement Planning: Retirement Advisor Profile Financial institutions are looking at retirement planning as a business opportunity and trying to see how it fits together with their overall business. |
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 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. |
The Motley Fool May 21, 2007 Rich Greifner |
The Worst Retirement Plan Ever Retirees are living longer, their expenses are skyrocketing, and their retirement savings are woefully inadequate. The good news is that it's never too late to save your retirement. There is no magic formula, but there are a few key steps. |