Wealth Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The bar is only getting higher for retirement plan advisors.

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Wealth Management

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

For an upfront purchase price of $50 million, the deal brings $47 billion of assets in the emerging and mid-market retirement plan segments and competitive ESOP administration.

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Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 24, 2023

However, when these aspirations are delayed or blocked by senior advisory firm partners who choose to delay their retirement plans, it can leave younger advisors frustrated and in a place of uncertainty about their futures with their firm.

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Wealth Management

MARCH 19, 2024

The key is finding the right firm that will enhance an advisor’s ability to work with retirement plans in an efficient and scalable manner.

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Nerd's Eye View

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

As an individual begins planning for retirement, one of the factors often considered is whether (and where) they might relocate to enjoy their retirement. When evaluating their potential options across the U.S., a state’s income tax rules can have a significant impact on where they might choose to live.

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Nerd's Eye View

JANUARY 4, 2023

Financial advisors have a wide range of strategies at their disposal to create financial plans for their clients. And when it comes to retirement planning, one popular technique is the use of ‘guardrails’, which set an initial monthly withdrawal rate that can be later adjusted as the size of the client’s portfolio changes.

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WiserAdvisor

MARCH 13, 2024

Achieving financial freedom in retirement requires meticulous planning, dedicated effort, and strategic management. Without a solid plan, you risk drifting without direction. Within this framework, the concept of the five pillars of retirement planning emerges as a valuable strategy.

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A Wealth of Common Sense

MARCH 14, 2024

This past week, I received three questions about retirement, all of which concern long-term planning at different stages of life. A reader asks: Chatting with the friends, we all seemed to be relatively close to one another in terms of cash on hand, investments in the market and current incomes.

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Advisor Perspectives

APRIL 25, 2024

million Americans turning 65 in 2024, advisors are navigating four core risks that will impact their portfolios in retirement: longevity, inflation, volatility, and emotions. With nearly 4.5 We will discuss new research by Dr. Wade Pfau, professor at The American College of Financial Services.

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Nerd's Eye View

APRIL 12, 2023

When planning for retirement, it’s effectively impossible to precisely forecast the performance and timing of future investment returns, which in turn makes it challenging to accurately predict a plan’s success or failure.

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Abnormal Returns

MAY 22, 2024

ritholtz.com) Steve Chen talks with Robert Brokamp about retirement planning and purpose. newretirement.com) Retirement Don't let too risky a portfolio ruin your retirement. bestinterest.blog) Private equity is not the solution to retirement shortfalls. wealthmanagement.com) Retirement income is a balancing act.

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Nerd's Eye View

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

But despite recognizing the impact of investment variability and sequence of return risk on a financial plan, advisors have generally ignored the same historical trends for inflation in their clients' financial plans.

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Nerd's Eye View

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Retirement is often framed as one's "golden years", a time to enjoy the fruits of several decades of hard work. And for many retirees who have planned accordingly, this transition is not a problem as they might spend generously on travel, hobbies, or other pursuits. On the behavioral side, clients could 'practice' retirement (e.g.,

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Abnormal Returns

MAY 13, 2024

blogs.cfainstitute.org) How life events affect retirement planning. investmentecosystem.com) Reflections on eight years of running a financial planning practice. investmentecosystem.com) Reflections on eight years of running a financial planning practice. kitces.com) How one advisory firm uses Salesforce.

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Nerd's Eye View

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act, passed in December 2019, brought a wide range of changes to the retirement planning landscape, from the death of the ‘stretch’ IRA to raising the age for Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs) to 72. In addition, SECURE 2.0

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Nerd's Eye View

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act, passed in December 2019, brought a wide range of changes to the retirement planning landscape, from the death of the ‘stretch’ IRA to raising the age for Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs) to 72. In addition, SECURE 2.0

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Abnormal Returns

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Podcasts Brendan Frazier talks with Michael Finke about the three cornerstones of a happy and fulfilling retirement. citywire.com) M&A For better or worse, advisers are putting off retirement. investmentnews.com) Retirement Retirement planning is challenging because we simply don't know how long someone will live.

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Abnormal Returns

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

wsj.com) Retirement How rising interest rates affect retirement planning. morningstar.com) An over-reliance on traditional IRA can be a tax problem in retirement. humbledollar.com) Nine surprises in retirement including 'You'll travel less than you expect.' theretirementmanifesto.com) Parsing Medicare options.

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Abnormal Returns

APRIL 10, 2024

(morningstar.com) Dan Haylett talks with Eric Brotman, who is the founder and CEO of BFG Financial Advisors, about retirement as 'graduation.' humansvsretirement.com) Estate planning Why you should update your estate plans periodically. obliviousinvestor.com) Estate planning should most importantly include talking about it.

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A Wealth of Common Sense

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Further Reading: Planning For Early Retirement 1As.

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Abnormal Returns

JANUARY 15, 2024

thinkadvisor.com) Retirement Baby Boomers were supposed to retire in penury. city-journal.org) Delayed Social Security claiming requires an explicit bridge plan. thinkadvisor.com) Advisers Financial planning is seeing a battle between growing complexity and rising technology. It hasn't happened. blairbellecurve.com)

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Abnormal Returns

JULY 10, 2024

podcasts.apple.com) Dan Haylett talks with David Blanchett about swapping 'financial independence' for retirement. humansvsretirement.com) Thomas Kopelman and Jacob Turner talk retirement planning with Taylor Schulte. podcasts.apple.com) Peter Lazaroff on how to integrate Social Security into your financial plan.

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Abnormal Returns

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

youtube.com) Retirement Why planning in retirement is so challenging. Rowe Price about non-financial considerations in retirement. morningstar.com) People work in retirement for any number of reasons. humansvsretirement.com) 3% rates make holding a mortgage in retirement easier.

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Abnormal Returns

JANUARY 17, 2024

peterlazaroff.com) Robin Powell talks retirement planning with Justin King author of "The Retirement Café Handbook: Nine Accelerators for a Successful Retirement." youtube.com) Retirement How to spend your time in retirement guilt-free. humbledollar.com) 25 things to consider for retirement.

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Nerd's Eye View

JANUARY 26, 2024

Also in industry news this week: A House committee has advanced a bill that would extend several expired business-related tax measures from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and would increase the value of the Child Tax Credit The SEC released its examination priorities for 2024, which include a focus on advisers' adherence to their duty of care and duty of (..)

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A Wealth of Common Sense

MARCH 5, 2023

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nearly 70% of private industry workers had access to a workplace retirement plan in 2021. Just 51% of them participated in those plans. It’s estimated more than 100 million Americans are covered by a defined contribution retirement plan. Let’s look at tw.

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Abnormal Returns

APRIL 1, 2024

wiredplanning.com) Retirement Spending guardrails are important in retirement, but the details matter. thinkadvisor.com) Not everyone is happier in retirement. thinkadvisor.com) Moving states in retirement requires some careful planning. investmentnews.com) The biz How Altruist Cash came to be.

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Abnormal Returns

OCTOBER 4, 2023

(humansvsretirement.com) Jon Luskin talks with Steve Chen about DIY retirement planning tools. open.spotify.com) Retirement Assessing life one year into retirement. mutualfundobserver.com) How to make up for a late start saving for retirement. humbledollar.com) Why spending money in retirement can be so difficult.

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Nerd's Eye View

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Enjoy the current installment of “Weekend Reading For Financial Planners” - this week’s edition kicks off with the news that Congress appears poised to pass a series of changes affecting retirement planning, dubbed “SECURE ACT 2.0”, ”, by the end of the year. Social Security COLA for 2023.

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Nerd's Eye View

MAY 10, 2024

Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners"– this week's edition kicks off with the news that a recent analysis from Morningstar suggests that the Department of Labor's (DoL's) new Retirement Security Rule (aka Fiduciary Rule 2.0)

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Abnormal Returns

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

morningstar.com) Christine Benz and Jeff Ptak talk with Mike Moran, managing director and pension strategist for Goldman Sachs ($GS) about the state of retirement preparedness. nytimes.com) Retirement Some alternatives to a fixed retirement withdrawal rates. thinkadvisor.com) What makes up the three-legged stool of retirement.

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The Chicago Financial Planner

JANUARY 17, 2022

Annuities are often touted as the “cure” for all that ails your retirement. In the case of Executive Life, thousands of annuity recipients were impacted in the form of greatly reduced annuity payments which in many cases permanently impacted the quality of their retirement. Not sure if your investments are right for your situation?

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Wealth Management

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Who will be the winners, losers and new entrants as the convergence of wealth, retirement and benefit at work will revolutionize 401(k) plans?

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Abnormal Returns

JANUARY 11, 2023

Podcasts Christine Benz and Jeff Ptak talk with Mark Miller, author of "Retirement Reboot: Commonsense Financial Strategies for Getting Back on Track." (the-long-view.simplecast.com) the-long-view.simplecast.com) A discussion about when it is time to adjust your retirement plans.

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Nerd's Eye View

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Also in industry news this week: While many financial advisors are paying close attention to the potential extension of sunsetting measures within the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) in the coming year, legislation related to retirement savings could be on Congress' agenda as well Fidelity is planning to change the default for its existing RIA non-retirement (..)

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Nerd's Eye View

APRIL 24, 2024

Over the past few decades, advicers have used Monte Carlo analysis tools to communicate to clients if their assets and planned level of spending were sufficient for them to realize their goals while (critically) not running out of money in retirement.

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Nerd's Eye View

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" - this week's edition kicks off with the news that the Department of Labor this week released its long-awaited "retirement security rule", its latest effort to curb conflicts of interest around retirement savings recommendations.

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