Retirement Planning

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Testing Social Security 'what if' scenarios
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING FEB 18, 2015
Testing Social Security 'what if' scenarios

Advisers ask what happens to benefits when clients retire before 62.

By Mary Beth Franklin
Discover your own freedom threshold in retirement
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING FEB 17, 2015
Discover your own freedom threshold in retirement

Downsizing is a myth, one study finds: A third of retirees bought bigger houses.

By Mary Beth Franklin
Boomers' unique spin on retirement housing
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING FEB 17, 2015
Boomers' unique spin on retirement housing

Discovering a freedom threshold and dispelling the downsizing myth

By Mary Beth Franklin
Six apps to help you save on taxes
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING FEB 17, 2015
Six apps to help you save on taxes

Put down your box of receipts and check out these tools.

By Darla Mercado
Defined contribution plans doubled asset growth of pensions in 2014
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING FEB 17, 2015
Defined contribution plans doubled asset growth of pensions in 2014

Annual survey by Pensions & Investments finds DC plans gained 12.8% last year, driven mostly by market gains.

By Rob Kozlowski
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING FEB 17, 2015
When to disenroll from Medicare

If clients fit the requirements, now is the time for them to take action and reduce unnecessary medical spending and hassles

By Katy Votava
How to best minimize taxes during retirement
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING FEB 16, 2015
How to best minimize taxes during retirement

Combine tax-efficient withdrawals and Social Security claiming strategies to improve retirement outcomes.

By Mary Beth Franklin
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING FEB 13, 2015
MetLife gets back in the variable-annuity-with-living-benefits game

Guaranteed lifetime withdrawal benefits are back

By Darla Mercado
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING FEB 12, 2015
The art and science of longevity

Advisers' responsibility to make sure their clients are prepared for the challenges and opportunities that come with extended life expectancies.

By Andrew Leigh
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING FEB 12, 2015
The dangers of art investing

One artist's precipitous fall is a reminder that art can be a fundamentally fickle asset. So, buy it because you love it.

By Bloomberg
In target date funds, performance starts to trump risk management as assets balloon
RETIREMENT EQUITIES FEB 12, 2015
In target date funds, performance starts to trump risk management as assets balloon

Some strategies stay aggressive right up to target date while others dial down risk; each group has its reasons

By Jeff Benjamin
The hazards of securities-based lending as a source of retirement income
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING FEB 12, 2015
The hazards of securities-based lending as a source of retirement income

Hold onto your hats and proceed with caution.

By Darla Mercado
Why President Obama's estate tax proposal is a big deal
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING FEB 12, 2015
Why President Obama's estate tax proposal is a big deal

The president's proposed change in step-up in basis would have a major impact on high-net-worth earners' taxes, according to Robert N. Gordon.

By Robert N. Gordon
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING FEB 11, 2015
How does the tax code affect you? Here's your chance to help change it.

Senate leaders are asking the public to add their ideas for overhauling the code to the bipartisan debate.

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
Longer life expectancies are killing pension funds
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING FEB 11, 2015
Longer life expectancies are killing pension funds

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Pension funds never factored in that people would live as long as they're living. Plus: Fake hedge funder goes to extremes to cover his tracks, Congress to the rescue, and IRA missteps you can avoid

By Jeff Benjamin
Declining marriage rates present a planning conundrum for long-term couples
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING FEB 11, 2015
Declining marriage rates present a planning conundrum for long-term couples

Protection takes precedence for committed couples who won't get hitched.

By Darla Mercado
Obama's retirement cap might sound good but it has an annuity problem
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING FEB 11, 2015
Obama's retirement cap might sound good but it has an annuity problem

When interest rates rise, the $3.4 million ceiling proposed could drop, trapping more people in a tax net

By Bloomberg
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING FEB 11, 2015
Beware financial planners who deliver less than advertised

A third of investors in one study weren't given the help they sought, and less than 10% got advice on taxes, estate planning, education planning, debt management or personal budgeting.

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
DOL fiduciary rule stalls again as brokerage industry makes last-minute push against it
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING FEB 10, 2015
DOL fiduciary rule stalls again as brokerage industry makes last-minute push against it

The Labor Department's proposal to impose a fiduciary standard on retirement advisers has stalled as the brokerage industry makes one more, eleventh-hour bid to change it.

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
No charitable IRA rollover, no problem. Consider the charitable alt-IRA
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING FEB 09, 2015
No charitable IRA rollover, no problem. Consider the charitable alt-IRA

What if you could do something similar to a charitable IRA rollover now, with more clients qualifying, fewer downsides and numerous advantages?

By Andrew Hibel