Darrow Wealth Management

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Living off dividends in retirement: hypothetical income today for portfolios between $2M and $15M Investors may wonder how much money they could expect in dividend income annually given today’s market. In another words, if your asset allocation is 60% stocks and 40% bonds, the current weighted average yield is 2.19%.

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Darrow Wealth Management

MARCH 3, 2025

Because of these differences, stocks and bonds accomplish different things in an asset allocation. Why stocks and bonds belong in a diversified portfolio Investors have different needs, risk tolerances, time horizons, and financial situations which should be considered in an asset allocation.

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A Wealth of Common Sense

OCTOBER 3, 2024

We emptied the inbox this week covering other questions about getting your CFA designation, the types of bonds you should own in retirement, how pensions fit into a retirement plan, how to spend more money, teaching your kids about money, becoming a landlord, using a HELOC as an emergency fund, how analysts rate stocks and adding international exposure (..)

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Discipline Funds

MARCH 10, 2025

This is also what makes retirement planning so difficult – you effectively lose an asset in your portfolio when your income stops or declines. And this is why I’ve become such a big advocate of defining our durations within our financial plans. You’re temporally diversified by your income.

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The Chicago Financial Planner

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Perhaps it’s time to rebalance and to rethink your ongoing asset allocation. Related Posts: Five Things to do During a Stock Market Correction Is a $100,000 Per Year Retirement Doable? Take stock of where you are. What impact have the solid stock market gains of the past three years had on your portfolio? Costs matter.

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The Chicago Financial Planner

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Has the market rally accelerated the amount you’ve accumulated for retirement relative to where you had thought you’d be at this point? If so, this is a good time to revisit your asset allocation and perhaps reduce your overall risk. Learn from the past . Photo credit: Phillip Taylor PT.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

MARCH 21, 2025

One of the pre-market Bloomberg emails gave a positive mention to the Cambria Global Asset Allocation ETF (GAA) because it is up in what of course has been a tough tape for equities this year. It is an interesting asset allocation that targets 40% in equities, 40% in fixed income and 20% in alternatives.

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A Wealth of Common Sense

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The set-it-and-forget-it nature of a workplace retirement plan is one of my favorite features. I like the ease and simplicity of 401k contributions coming out of my paycheck before it ever even touches my checking account. It’s easy to automate. Plus, I like the fact that it’s difficult to get the money out of these ac.

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James Hendries

AUGUST 24, 2022

But volatile markets aren’t necessarily a negative thing, especially when it comes to retirement planning. When you are planning for retirement, a lost decade can mean stagnated savings and loss of buying power to inflation. Target Date Funds Can Help Asset Allocation.

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Cordant Wealth Partners

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Decide upon your asset allocation The first step in investing your 401(k) is determining your “asset allocation,” which is simply the mix of stocks, bonds and cash you’ll hold. This mix of assets is the main building block of your portfolio and will primarily determine the risk and return in the account.

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Advisor Perspectives

JANUARY 20, 2023

Learn how our industry-leading asset allocation expertise can help participants make investment choices with more confidence and help employers reach their plan goals. Advice boosts workers’ confidence in choosing investments—from 35% to 65%.

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MainStreet Financial Planning

MARCH 7, 2025

Unlike AUM advisors, they dont have an incentive to keep assets under management, so their recommendations are truly objective. Comprehensive Financial Planning is Included Many AUM advisors charge extra for estate planning, tax strategies, and retirement planning. Are There Any Benefits to AUM-Based Advisors?

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Darrow Wealth Management

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Your asset allocation is the percentage of your portfolio that you distribute between different asset classes, like stocks and bonds. To rebalance your portfolio, you’ll buy and sell certain investments to realign to your accounts with your desired asset allocation.

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Zoe Financial

MARCH 21, 2025

Their role extends beyond investment managementthey can help with: Retirement Planning : Structuring your assets to support your desired lifestyle. Estate Planning : Ensuring your wealth is passed on according to your wishes. Provide insights on asset allocation and risk management.

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Advisor Perspectives

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Offer more ways clients may achieve their retirement plan goals while helping address the diverse investment needs of participants. Learn about our industry-leading investments and expertise—featuring more default options and more personalized asset allocation.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

MARCH 20, 2025

The asset allocation was 10% to hedges, 30% to T-bills for asymmetry but that seems more like optionality to me, 9% to edges which included one broad stock picking ETF, a derivative income fund and a short volatility product. None of them were hideously wrong out of the blocks but it's too soon to declare victory with them.

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Validea

JUNE 22, 2023

We talk both retirement planning and factor investing with Dimensional Fund Advisors Senior Researcher Mathieu Pellerin. The post Factor Investing for Retirement with DFA’s Mathieu Pellerin appeared first on Validea's Guru Investor Blog. In this episode, we combine two of the topics we often cover on the podcast.

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Validea

JUNE 22, 2023

We talk both retirement planning and factor investing with Dimensional Fund Advisors Senior Researcher Mathieu Pellerin. The post Factor Investing for Retirement with DFA’s Mathieu Pellerin appeared first on Validea's Guru Investor Blog. In this episode, we combine two of the topics we often cover on the podcast.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

AUGUST 27, 2022

A point we've been making here for ages is that with an adequate savings rate, appropriate asset allocation and the ability to avoid succumbing to panic, an investor should be able to have retirement plan success as defined above.

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Carson Wealth

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Take Advantage of Retirement Plans and Matching Contributions. Most employer retirement plans allow you to save on a tax-deferred basis, meaning that contributions into these types of accounts are not considered in calculating your taxable income. . Determine an Appropriate Risk Tolerance for a Longer Time Horizon .

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

MARCH 30, 2024

Circling back to model ETF portfolio mentioned at the top of this post, the asset allocation was as follows. US Equity 56% Trend Following/Tactical 38% Emerging Market Equity 5% Cash 1% I don't know often that changes but that there is not a permanent allocation to fixed income is of course intriguing to me.

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Nationwide Financial

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Maintaining an appropriate asset allocation for an investor’s specific goals and risk tolerance is critical for long-term success. There’s value in staying invested in that asset allocation and not trying to time the market’s ups and downs or succumbing to fear when markets turn tumultuous.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

The first example to look at they call Leverage In The Strategic Asset Allocation via this table in the paper. The paper introduces the idea of mixing momentum and value in some combo that they never quantified as a possible substitute for low volatility before digging in more deeply into different examples or cases.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Right or wrong, I think of endowment style investing as being a similar to the Permanent Portfolio, not so much quadrants but more like disparate asset class segments which gets us to a paper about endowment asset allocation from True North Institute.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JANUARY 22, 2025

The starting point today is the that Rational ReSolve Adaptive Asset Allocation Fund (RDMIX) has gone through a strategy change, renaming as the ReturnStacked Balanced Allocation & Systematic Macro Fund and keeping the same symbol. " balanced allocation and $1 of exposure to a systematic macro strategy."

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Tobias Financial

APRIL 11, 2024

Edzai and Franklin will cover a wide range of essential topics including managing student debt, understanding employer-provided benefits, retirement planning fundamentals, holistic asset allocation for tax-efficient returns, risk management, and asset protection strategies.

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International College of Financial Planning

JULY 30, 2022

Earning the CFP designation requires a rigorous course of study covering investment planning, income taxation, retirement planning and risk management. A Person who completes the CFP course is qualified to provide financial planning services to those with a high degree of financial responsibility.

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Discipline Funds

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The simple answer is that the short-term movements of the stock market should be irrelevant to your financial plan assuming you have a well constructed temporally diversified portfolio. 5-15 years: moderately long-term needs like near retirement planning, a child’s college tuition, etc. 2) Stock market gambling.

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Talon Wealth

AUGUST 26, 2023

Of course, one of the most important aspects of retirement planning is managing retirement taxes. Taxes can significantly impact the amount of money you’ll have for retirement. These factors, of course, can also impact the taxes due in retirement. Income levels, tax deductions, and credits can change yearly.

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Talon Wealth

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Of course, one of the most important aspects of retirement planning is managing retirement taxes. Taxes can significantly impact the amount of money you’ll have for retirement. These factors, of course, can also impact the taxes due in retirement. Income levels, tax deductions, and credits can change yearly.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The Wall Street Journal took what might be a sympathetic approach to 401k investors who might be feeling disillusioned by generally poor performance with the focus being on target date funds which have of course become a major staple of 401k plans. First, it's your retirement, how do you not care enough to engage just a little?

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Darrow Wealth Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Don’t stress out about every headline, stress test your retirement plan instead.Markets move every day and the news cycle is 24-7. Even if actual average returns meet targets over time, market volatility can still derail your portfolio and retirement plans. This produces a probability of success across all trials.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

MAY 12, 2024

I've been critical of the actual FIG ETF, the Simplify Macro ETF, it is really struggling but I think the fund's idea for asset allocation works for the most part. We don't spend a ton of time talking about Sharpe Ratios but yikes, that is a huge difference for the same asset allocation.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Increasing the RMD age to 75 will change quite a few aspects of this part of retirement planning. I envision a scenario of spending down to zero the taxable account, save for an emergency fund, letting qualified assets grow and then adding in Social Security closer to 70, or later if they ever lift the age cap from 70.

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WiserAdvisor

APRIL 25, 2023

Rebalancing a 401(k) refers to adjusting the asset allocation of your investment portfolio back to its original target percentages. Your investment strategy determines the target percentages for each asset, often based on your risk tolerance, investment goals, and time horizon. Click to compare vetted advisors now.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

MAY 24, 2024

Barron's had an interesting article about a BofA study showing that over a period of many decades an asset allocation of 60% equities/40% commodities outperformed an allocation of 60% equities/40% fixed income by 0.80% per year.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

MARCH 30, 2025

The prompt was a mention of the Cambria Global Asset Allocation ETF (GAA) somewhere and since the market has done so poorly, I though it would be worth revisiting. I'll close out with an update on The United States Sovereign Wealth ETF that I made up and first wrote about on March 5.

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