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Helping Clients Grasp Abstract Retirement Income Strategies With Historical Market Visualization

Nerd's Eye View

For many financial advisors, a core part of the retirement planning process involves simulating whether the client's assets will last through retirement. One way that advisors can help bridge this gap is by using Historical Market Visualization (HiMaV) as a more intuitive alternative for illustrating retirement income strategies.

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Income Lab Debuts Retirement Stress Test Tool

Wealth Management

The tool includes the option to run plans through real-life historical scenarios including the Great Depression, the post-war period, 1970s stagflation, the dot-com bubble and the 2008 financial crisis.

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Stock Market Highs and Your Retirement

The Chicago Financial Planner

At some point we are bound to see a stock market correction of some magnitude, hopefully not on the order of the 2008-09 financial crisis. As someone saving for retirement , what should you do now? Has the market rally accelerated the amount you’ve accumulated for retirement relative to where you had thought you’d be at this point?

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10 Monday AM Reads

The Big Picture

The only other years with a higher reading since 1990 were 2008 when the S&P fell 38%, and 2002, when it fell 23%. Pensions Brace for Private-Equity Losses : Retirement officials predict grim results from investments in private equity and other illiquid assets ( Wall Street Journal ). • Wealth of Common Sense ). •

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Five Things to do During a Stock Market Correction

The Chicago Financial Planner

For example during the 2008-2009 market debacle I looked at funds to see how they did in both the down market of 2008 and the up market of 2009. If a fund did worse than the majority of its peers in 2008 I would expect to see better than average performance in the up market of 2009. Markets will always correct at some point.

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Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns

Abnormal Returns

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Are Bonds Safe During a Recession or Market Crash?

Darrow Wealth Management

But to illustrate the relative protection that bonds may be able to provide compared to stocks, heres what happened to the bond market in the 2008 great financial crisis and recession and 2020 market crash. The chart below shows what happened to fixed income (bonds) in 2008. Bond indices during the 2008 recession (gray).