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How is the Current Environment Impacting Your Retirement?
Explore how our new quarterly dashboard on S&P STRIDE can help investors better understand and plan for retirement with S&P DJI’s Hamish Preston. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y8jSzzNTGU Get the latest dashboard: https://spdji.com/documents/commentary/dashboard-stride-2020-03.pdf.
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Setting Income Goals For A Winning Retirement
“You Keep Livin’, We’ll Keep Payin’” – lottery spokeswoman, Christy Calicchia. Most people, while they only dream of winning a lottery, understand the concept between a big lump sum payout and an annuity that says something like “either win $1 million today or win $1,000 a week for life.” Though the concept is clear, and in…
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Monitoring Progress Toward an Income Goal
In a previous blog post, I described some benefits of having an income goal and a method of estimating one’s retirement income liability. I reviewed a hypothetical example to illustrate steps 1-2 from the list of benefits below, and I calculated a net estimated retirement liability (the portion of retirement income one must fund with…
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The Benefits of Having a Retirement Income Goal and How to Estimate It
Individuals preparing for life after full-time employment may find that planning for a particular range of inflation-adjusted retirement income is more effective than planning for a particular range of wealth. Wealth levels are unintuitive because they do not provide practical spending guidelines. They are also heavily influenced by random variables (market returns). Using one’s wealth…
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Communicating Income: Lessons From Behavioral Finance
In my recent book, The Behavioral Economics Approach to Winning New Clients (and Keeping the Ones You Have!), I offer a dozen recommendations to financial advisors charged with stewarding their clients’ assets to ultimately improve the relationship between client and advisor. Several lessons are devoted to communication, specifically ways to employ trust, loss aversion and…
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Standard Benchmarks Extend Standard of Living Through Retirement
What are the steps in selecting a retirement income option? Of course cost is one of the considerations, but did you know ERISA does not require selecting the lowest cost investments? These questions and more are explored in a recent video with Ian Kopelman (DLA Piper), and Tim Kohn (Dimensional Fund Advisors): What are some best…
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Spending Too Little In Retirement?
Yes, you read that right. You might not be spending enough in retirement. It seems impossible after rigorously following savings plans during the course of your career in order to achieve that golden nest-egg to provide just what you need to retire. However, a problem arises when “what you need to retire” might not be…
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Unconventional Sources of Retirement Income
The three pillars of conventional retirement income are social security retirement benefits, pensions from employment, and personal savings. There are, however, other potential sources of retirement income that are not mentioned often enough. These include (a) the cash value of one’s whole life insurance policy, (b) the home equity value of one’s residence, and (c)…
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TIPS Improve Income Stability For Lifestyle Goals
Commodities are a direct way to protect against inflation since they are the natural resources that build society. The same food and energy that is in CPI (Consumer Price Index from the Bureau of Labor Statistics,) is in the commodity indices like the S&P GSCI and DJCI, and more energy has provided more inflation protection since energy is…
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Benchmarking Retirement Withdrawal Strategies
Capital market benchmarks are, of course, widely used yardsticks of investment performance. For the production of the S&P STRIDE Index, in addition to providing performance data we also calculate hypothetical retirement income for vintages of the index that are at, or past, their target date. Hypothetical retirement income is expressed in index points, and can…
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