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Can You Build a Retirement Income Plan With Both Risk and Reliability?

In Articles, Articles: Kansas City Office, Investment Management, Retirement by Scott Dougan

Two strategies for making retirement savings last — probability-based income planning and guaranteed income planning — can help ensure you have what you need in your golden years, but which is right for you? Two very different strategies can help retirees’ retirement savings last their lifetime, and the one that works for you, or even a hybrid plan, may depend …

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How Healthy Is Your Retirement Plan in the Midst of the COVID Crisis?

In Articles, Articles: Kansas City Office, Retirement by Scott Dougan

Give yourself a financial checkup today to see if you’re doing all that you can to have a healthy and happy retirement. Here are eight tactics to help boost your bottom line. As the world moves into yet another year of dealing with the persistent coronavirus pandemic, we’re all still struggling to wrap our minds around the many challenges we …

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COVID-19 Adds Even More Incentive to Future-Proof Your Retirement with a Roth

In Articles, Articles: Kansas City Office, Retirement by Scott Dougan

Considering the stimulus spending going on, tax rates this low aren’t likely to last, so take advantage now. Back in 2018, when the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) went into effect, did your financial adviser encourage the idea of changing how you save for retirement? If you took action, you likely established a strategy to withdraw some or even …

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Report: Planning for Your Retirement

In Retirement, Special Reports, Special Reports: Kansas City Office, Special Reports: Salt Lake City Office, Tax Planning by Scott Dougan

Planning for Your Retirement Develop Your Income and Spending Plan Retirement! Most Americans get excited about the day they no longer have to go to work to earn an income. No more bosses, no more meetings to attend, no more schedules to keep, no more stress that even the best of jobs can create. Retirement can be the beginning of …

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27 Retirement Risks: Which Is (Arguably) Most Damaging

In Articles, Articles: Kansas City Office, Articles: Salt Lake City Office, Retirement by Scott Dougan

Life is fraught with danger; everybody knows this. When we take a closer look at one particular slice of life, retirement, we begin to see more clearly what those risks are. This recognition allows us to begin hedging against risks as best we can, through prudent planning. Before we get started, we must first agree on the desired outcome of …

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Back to the Basics: Seven Factors in Determining Retirement Age

In Articles, Articles: Kansas City Office, Articles: Salt Lake City Office, Back to the Basics, Retirement, SLC Summer 2019, Summer 2019 by Scott Dougan

Retirement means something a bit different to everyone. To some, it’s a financial finish line. To others, retirement represents a transition from paid work to volunteer work. Whatever it means to you and those close to you, retirement happens, whether by choice or by force. As a person nears ‘retirement age’ a litany of decisions arise that must be carefully …

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Report: Proactive Retirement Planning

In Retirement, Special Reports, Special Reports: Kansas City Office, Special Reports: Salt Lake City Office, Tax Planning by Scott Dougan

The New Secure Act & Proactive Retirement Planning The House of Representatives passed the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act on May 23. The next step is to pass through the Senate and be signed by the President. With strong bipartisan support and the Senate already considering changes for retirement plans, industry expert Bob Keebler (CPA, MST of …

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‘Golden Decade’ Offers Golden Opportunity to Get Taxes Under Control

In Articles, Articles: Kansas City Office, Retirement by Scott Dougan

If you are between the ages of 60 and 70, the time could be right to pump some money out of big, fat 401(k)s and traditional IRAs into tax-free Roth accounts. If a financial professional planned your 60th birthday party, the balloons and streamers wouldn’t be black. They’d be gold. Some advisers even refer to the ages between 60 and …

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Lack of Financial Information Is No Longer the Problem. Knowing How to Process It Is.

In Articles, Articles: Kansas City Office, Retirement by Scott Dougan

The key to good financial decisions is knowing how to sort through the flood of information out there. How do you do that? Ask the right questions. Specifically, these five. Thanks to new technologies, investing is more accessible than ever. You can buy stocks, bonds and mutual funds with a click of a mouse, or even with an app on …

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C.A.N. You Handle It? Dialing in Your Investment Risk

In Articles, Articles: Kansas City Office, Retirement by Scott Dougan

Your risk tolerance can be boiled down into three words: capacity, attitude and need. Getting a grip on those concepts is the key to designing an appropriate portfolio for your retirement. “In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable.” So says investment adviser to PIMCO, Robert Arnott. While there’s certainly truth to this, most investors would be wise to consider just …