What is Risk?
Risk is one of those complicated concepts that you can’t really pin down to one definition, but it’s the single most important factor for investors.
Charitable Planning – Leveraging Those Gains
The IRS encourages charitable giving by classifying donations to qualified charities as tax-deductible. As a result, it’s possible to “do good, while doing well.”
Wade Pfau Releases New Book on How to Spend Money Wisely in Retirement
Wade Pfau’s latest book gives much needed insight into how retirees can spend money in retirement without constantly worrying about going broke.
What Does Your Funded Ratio Score Mean?
By providing your financial objectives and the ways you want to fund them with essential and discretionary expenses, you can create a framework. Your Funded Ratio score will tell you how close your aspirations are to your reality.
Taking Portfolio Spending Into the Real World for Retirees
There has been too much emphasis on the portfolio and spending conservatively to keep failure rates low. This is not the whole story for retirement income. Certain circumstances, which we will explore, may allow retirees to accept a higher probability of “failure,” and spend more aggressively from their investment portfolio.
What Can the Retirement CARE Analysis™ Tell You About Your Retirement Plan?
The Retirement CARE Analysis can help you figure out your asset allocation and an appropriate spending rate for retirement.
The Possibilities of Broader Diversification in Retirement
Often, retirees are limited to accepting whatever a researcher assumes about market returns in order to obtain guidance about sustainable spending rates. I proposed a general framework for determining a safe withdrawal rate for a given retirement duration, acceptable failure probability, asset allocation, and capital market expectations.
Should You Use a Rising Equity Glide Path in Retirement?
Retirement income comes in many forms. Wade Pfau considers the pros and cons of a rising equity glide path.
What’s the Most Appropriate Planning Age for Retirees?
The relationship between how long you’ll live and your sustainable spending rate is a big piece of the retirement planning puzzle.
How Can I Manage Sequence Risk in Retirement?
Sequence of returns risk is a major concern for even the most well-prepared retirees, but there are steps you can take to manage it.
