By reducing the annual return 0.5 percent to 4.5 percent, a seemingly insignificant reduction, you reduce the expected terminal
value of the retirement portfolio by roughly $ 30,000.
By reducing the annual return 0.5 percent to 4.5 percent, a seemingly insignificant reduction, you reduce the expected terminal value
of the retirement portfolio by roughly $ 30,000.
Regardless of your traditional investment preferences, tangible assets like gold and silver can help make the profitability and safety
of your retirement portfolio far more attainable.
For investments
outside of your retirement portfolio you can use strategies like investing in tax free municipal bonds and holding on to investments for longer than a year to lower capital gain taxes.
Given the pronounced investment orientation of the group, one might think that «market volatility» might top the
list of retirement portfolio risks that are on the minds of older clients.
Bonds can be a core low risk
component of retirement portfolios, but they do come with one significant risk factor: if interest rates go up, the bonds you already own will plummet in value.
Retirees may view annuitized income from Social Security and employer pensions as their primary source of retirement spending and
think of the retirement portfolio only as a reserve to protect against the unexpected.
Indeed, Finke said that he's most proud of a series of articles that he wrote last year along with American College professor Wade Pfau and David Blanchett, head of retirement research at Morningstar, that looked at the impact of low asset yields on the
sustainability of retirement portfolios.
Has anyone read «Beyond The 4 % Rule: The
science of retirement portfolios that last a lifetime» by Abraham Okusanya or have any views on how it compares with Living Off Your Money?
Fee compression, brought on by low - cost investment products, means RIAs may not be so quick to walk away from guaranteed income products for clients turning their attention to the deaccumulation
phase of the retirement portfolio.
The
majority of our retirement portfolio is in diversified mutual funds but what I have done to diversify even more and to hedge a little against inflation is to invest in stocks of companies where we spend our money.