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retirement planning


Rethinking Retirement Planning Outcome Metrics

Retirement, like life, is fundamentally uncertain. That's why we need to provide clients with more context about what missing their retirement-income goals might look like.

More Realistic Retirement Income Projections Require Dynamic Adjustments

How can we incorporate dynamic spending into retirement income projections?

Redefining the Retirement Income Goal

Spending flexibility must be better incorporated into the tools and outcomes metrics with which financial advisers advise clients.

Every Day Is Tax Day: Five Tax Strategies for HNW Clients

Our clients' taxes and the tax-savings strategies we can devise for them should be on our minds year-round.

Retirement Income: Six Strategies

How can we mitigate sequence of returns risk (SoRR)?

Book Review: Your Complete Guide to a Successful and Secure Retirement

The latest book from Larry Swedroe and Kevin Grogan, CFA, focuses on retirement planning. The inclusion of “complete” in the title is appropriate.

Increasing Client Withdrawal Rates in Retirement

For retirees, success means, in part, not outliving their money. Two recent studies shed insight on how advisers can help clients accomplish that, Isaac Presley, CFA, reports.

Top Five Articles from November: Equity Valuations, Amazon, Palm Oil

Eleven rules for equity valuations from James J. Valentine, CFA, as described by Paul McCaffrey; suggestions for evidence-based thinking in retirement plans by Isaac Presley, CFA; and Sloane Ortel's examination of how Amazon fits into the active vs. passive debate are among the top EI posts from November.

Filial Support Laws: “A Sleeping Giant”

US filial support laws could be a potential "sleeping giant." For those with clients who refuse to acknowledge the importance of planning for long-term health care in retirement, read on.

Three Tips for Evidence-Based Retirement Plans

Isaac Presley, CFA, has a few suggestions to put a little evidence-based thinking into your clients' retirement plans.



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