The Retirement Planning Guidebook helps you navigate through the important decisions to prepare for your best retirement. You are going to have the detailed knowledge and understanding to make smart retirement decisions:
– Understand your personal retirement income style, which can then help you navigate through the conflicting opinions about retirement strategies to make a choice your right path.
– Learn about investment and insurance tools that may best resonate with your personal style.
– Resolve if you are financially prepared for retirement by quantifying your financial goals (annual spending, legacy, and reserves for the unexpected) and comparing them to your available assets.
– Make smart decisions for when to start Social Security benefits, which could potentially reinforce an additional $100,000 or more of lifetime income from Social Security.
– Develop a plan for making the best initial and ongoing choices from the alphabet soup of Medicare options, as well as how to find health coverage if you retire before Medicare eligibility.
– Assess where you wish to live in retirement and whether there are helpful ways to incorporate housing wealth into your retirement strategy.
– Come to a decision how to manage your long-term care risk between self-funding, Medicaid, or private insurance, and take steps to reinforce living at home for so long as imaginable.
– Understand how to manage your taxes to pay less, to avoid common pitfalls, and to have more for your lifetime and your legacy. It is possible for you to to apply tax diversification, asset location, tax bracket management, and Roth conversions to reinforce the sustainability of your retirement assets.
– Get your finances organized and understand how to get your estate and incapacity planning documents in order, including your will, account titling, beneficiary designations, financial power of attorney, and advance health care directives.
– Identify whether there is a role for trusts in your estate plan for reasons related to avoiding probate, controlling how and when assets are disbursed, obtaining creditor protections, or helping to manage estate taxes.
– Prepare for the non-financial aspects of retirement, including the need to find purpose and passion, to understand if there is a role for work in retirement, to reinforce relationships and social connections, and to maintain an active and healthy lifestyle.
Retirement has an entire vocabulary associated with it. We’ll demystify the 4% rule, sequence-of-return risk, time segmentation and buckets, reverse mortgages, income annuities, variable annuities, fixed index annuities, long-term care insurance, living trusts, irrevocable trusts, budgeting, the funded ratio, Medicare Advantage, Medicare supplements, diversified investment portfolios, Roth conversions, the hazards of the Social Security tax torpedo and increased Medicare premiums, buffer assets, 401(k) plans and IRAs, the rollover decision, distribution options for defined-benefit company pensions, required minimum distributions, qualified charitable distributions, aging in place, cognitive decline, and so much more.
The Retirement Planning Guidebook does not let important matters fall through the cracks. This is a comprehensive look at the key retirement decisions to achieve financial and non-financial success. You are going to have the foundation to benefit from your retirement years, and I hope you’ll be able to do something great!
