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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 Advisor October 2005 David J. Drucker |
Recreating The Paycheck Once a financial adviser has put a system in place that's working to everyone's satisfaction, there's always the issue of how much income clients really need in retirement.  |
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, 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.  |
Financial Advisor November 2012 Ben Mattlin |
The 4% Solution Is it still a feasible retirement withdrawal strategy?  |
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 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.  |
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.  |
Financial Planning January 1, 2010 Israelsen & Ferri |
Is a Pension a Bond? Unsure how to value a client's pension or social security? Use the liability reduction model.  |
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 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.  |
The Motley Fool September 20, 2006 Dan Caplinger |
Don't Defer Paying Tax: Part 2 Simple rules of thumb are handy for investors; in general, taking advantage of opportunities to eliminate or defer payment of tax is a smart move.  |
Registered Rep. May 1, 2006 Kevin McKinley |
Savvy Start Advisors are gradually shifting their focus from helping their clients make money to spending it. What's driving the shift? The knowledge that many of their best customers are winding down their careers and want to enjoy the fruits of their labor.  |
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 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 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 July 1, 2007 Gene Fama Jr. |
Bonds for Wealth People often look to bonds for retirement income, but the raw pursuit of income can engage inadvertent risks that can be especially rough on retirees. In the end, financial security is about total wealth, not marginal income.  |
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 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."  |
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, 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.  |
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.  |
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 Planning September 1, 2007 Jim Grote |
What Retirement Means Now To your affluent clients, retirement anxiety has as much to do with emotional issues as financial ones. The newest thinking adds human capital, everything from earning capacity to feelings of personal satisfaction, to the funding equation.  |
Investment Advisor April 1, 2011 Bob Clark |
Boring No More With baby boomers moving into their distribution years, bonds -- and the folks who manage them -- are becoming a lot more interesting  |
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 Planning December 1, 2006 Marshall Eckblad |
The Retirement Puzzle Serving retirees might be a lot less profitable than most financial planners imagine. There are certainly opportunities in catering to this wealthy crowd, but only if you know where to look.  |
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 September 2009 Lewis Schiff |
The Affluentialist: Building Retirement Portfolios Now Few advisors use a cookie cutter approach to retirement income support.  |
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.  |
Registered Rep. October 17, 2014 Kevin McKinley |
Four Ways to Save for an Early Retirement Most early retirees are going to need alternate funds to cover living expenses before traditional sources of retirement income kick in.  |
Registered Rep. November 1, 2004 Chris O'Leary |
The Dawn of the Retirement Age Financial advisors and market analysts agree that as baby boomers begin to retire later this decade and throughout the 2010s, many retirees remain dangerously uninformed about how much annual income they will need and about how to manage their investments.  |
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 Planning October 1, 2006 Suzanne McGee |
Rethinking Retirement Income Helping your financial planning clients to keep sitting pretty in retirement is more complex than ever. How will your practice adapt?  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
Financial Advisor March 2011 Karen DeMasters |
Changing The Social Contract The changing face of the economy and the fact that people are living longer has some baby boomers and their financial advisors redefining the traditional concepts of retirement.  |
The Motley Fool March 8, 2010 Robert Brokamp |
Should You Convert to a Roth? Pros Weigh In When would you like a tax break -- today or tomorrow? The answer may determine if a Roth IRA is right for you.  |
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.  |
Financial Advisor October 2012 Roy Diliberto |
Cash Flow In Retirement Clients take a different view than advisors.  |
Investment Advisor October 2007 Lauren Barack |
The Longevity Race People are living longer. Software makers are helping advisors figure out how to make clients' portfolios last longer, too.  |
The Motley Fool August 24, 2006 Dan Caplinger |
Relieve Your Tax Burden: Part 1 One of the first things that any beginning investor learns about is the strategy of asset allocation. Here's a guide to the quirks of more aggressive investment accounts.  |
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 Advisor January 2005 Gregory Bresiger |
Rewritting The Rules Many older Americans don't plan to retire-either because they want to, or have to stay working. It's expected that many baby boomers are going to need financial planning and advice, but not the kind that their grandparents and parents did.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
On Wall Street April 1, 2011 J. Graydon Coghlan |
Retire Later, Collect More If your clients want to receive full Social Security benefits, it's important that they wait until their official retirement age.  |