Determining Living Expenses for Retirement

Determining Living Expenses for Retirement

Author: James W. Walker

Publisher: Pearson Education

Published: 2009-12-15

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13: 0131378007

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This Element is an excerpt from Work Wanted: Protect Your Retirement Plans in Uncertain Times (ISBN: 9780132354646) by James W. Walker and Linda H. Lewis. Available in print and digital formats. Be prepared: a realistic, indispensable new look at what you’ll really be spending when you retire. You are likely counting on pension, savings, and health programs from your employer to sustain you in retirement. Combined with personal savings and Social Security, you reasonably expect retirement to be enjoyable and secure. However, many people underestimate their financial needs and overestimate their prospective resources. You may need to take a fresh look at your financial situation....


Retirement Living

Retirement Living

Author: Lashay Sollman

Publisher:

Published: 2021-04

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13:

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ONE OF THE FREEDOMS OF retirement is getting to choose where to live. Rather than being tied to a specific city due to work or school commitments, the entire world suddenly becomes a potential place to retire. Before leaping to a new town, state or country, it's worth exploring the impact the choice could have on your lifestyle, family commitments, and well-being. Retirement can be your chance to make a fresh start in your dream destination - somewhere you can enjoy life to the full. But where that depends on a number of factors. So, it's important to weigh up the pros and cons of different locations before making your move. The ideal place for spending your retirement depends on many factors, including how you see yourself spending your time. As well as looking for a location that matches your retirement lifestyle plans, there are some important practical things to think about. This book will provide you with a lot of useful information that you need to know.


Retirement Planning Guide

Retirement Planning Guide

Author: Caroyln Bongivengo

Publisher:

Published: 2021-08-14

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13:

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A key part of retirement planning is to answer the question: "How much do I need to retire?" The answer varies by individual, and it depends largely on your income now and the lifestyle you want in retirement. Knowing how much you need to save "by age" can help you stay on track and reach your retirement goals and there are a few simple formulas that you can use to come up with the numbers. This book starts with a step-by-step look at what it will take to create your own, personalized version of retirement success. Considerations such as: the impact of inflation, the rising cost of health care and long term care, and decisions about where to live are discussed. Other topics include ways to close the gap, (for those who discover they are not on track) and suggestions for making your money last. The author also provides user-friendly explanations of various budget and replacement rate methods of projecting your spending needs in retirement, with an evaluation of the pros and cons of each.


When Can I Afford To Retire?

When Can I Afford To Retire?

Author: Douglas R. Hayman

Publisher: Expert Software Systems

Published: 2014-08-19

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13: 0980161320

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This book provides a detailed plan for determining the feasibility of retiring at a particular age, given the composition of your assets, the retirement vehicles that are available to you, and the monthly expenses that you need to cover during retirement. Identification of all sources of current/retirement revenue, all sources of current/retirement expenses, and the effect of a discreet number of variables that will affect your retirement in the future, are all discussed in detail. At any particular time (pre- or post-retirement), this book makes you aware of your monthly cash flow, and how all of the above cumulatively affect your "Assets Remaining" - the amount of your investment assets (retirement accounts and other investments) remaining at the end of every year. Whether you have a defined pension plan, a contributory pension plan, or just Social Security, this book will provide valuable information for determining the age that you can truly retire at, and if/when your Assets Remaining will run out. Although all principles outlined in this book can be implemented with paper and pencil (or your favorite spreadsheet), the author describes a companion Retirement Calculator software product that can be purchased separately, that assists with all the of book's described calculations.


Retirement Life Insurance

Retirement Life Insurance

Author: Steve Heller

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2017-11-07

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1501506188

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Do your clients have any idea of what they can/should spend in retirement? Do they know what they need to do to optimize their retirement spending? How can you protect a spouse from the drop in social security if a client dies early? Why is it likely that buying insurance or buying a fixed annuity can dramatically increase the level of your client’s spending—even if your customer is already retired? What if you could show your client exactly what the impact would be and at what level they would need to buy to achieve a certain level of spending? How can buying a fixed annuity be a hedge against term life expiration and what level is required? When should your client start taking social security? What can your client spend now and how much can that improve if they purchase insurance or an annuity from you? All these questions and more are answered in this book and in the free software that accompanies this book. The software, though more complex than most end users would care to learn, offers you the opportunity to load in customer financial data and give them results that will calculate various options. The amazing and counter-intuitive part is that it is highly likely that most individuals can see their monthly spending capability go up dramatically by buying insurance and/or buying a fixed annuity and the software enables you to zero in on the desired level. Even though life insurance is an old, established financial product, and annuities are even older, there is one enormous market that has been overlooked: the market for additional retirement funds for a surviving spouse and replacement of Social Security payments that are lost after the death of a spouse. This book explains how to address this market, and includes instructions and a license for software that illustrates how insurance and annuities can increase sustainable spending in retirement. Most people have no idea how much they can really spend in retirement. Many are living frugal lives spending their social security while "saving for a rainy day". They buy life insurance in batches of tens thousands of dollars because it sounds good or what they think they can afford. Almost no one would believe that buying "expensive" life insurance after age 60 actually can free them to spend MUCH more on a monthly basis. Furthermore, no one is looking at an optimum return on the investment based on a certain level of potential spending. Until now. This book, and the accompanying software enable you, the life agent, to input the customer data and come up with a plan for your customer and provide proof that the plan will work for them. The book explains what goes into making these calculations, why they work the way they do and gives various case studies that quite often show that buying term insurance or buying an annuity after retirement can be great investments for them. We think your customers will be convinced. There are detailed instructions as to use of the software (at www.steveheller.org/rhino) that accompanies the book with built in case studies that you can use. But even more importantly, you can input a customer’s data and provide them with options and actually show them the benefits or give them the solutions that they would otherwise not know exist. These solutions will be invaluable to your business and offer you a distinct advantage over competition that are not selling in this manner.


The Bogleheads' Guide to Retirement Planning

The Bogleheads' Guide to Retirement Planning

Author: Taylor Larimore

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-02-22

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 0470919019

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The Bogleheads are back-with retirement planning advice for those who need it! Whatever your current financial situation, you must continue to strive for a viable retirement plan by finding the most effective ways to save, the best accounts to save in, and the right amount to save, as well as understanding how to insure against setbacks and handle the uncertainties of a shaky economy. Fortunately, the Bogleheads, a group of like-minded individual investors who follow the general investment and business beliefs of John C. Bogle, are here to help. Filled with valuable advice on a wide range of retirement planning issues, including some pearls of wisdom from Bogle himself, The Bogleheads' Guide to Retirement Planning has everything you need to succeed at this endeavor. Explains the different types of savings accounts and retirement plans Offers insights on managing and funding your retirement accounts Details efficient withdrawal strategies that could help you maintain a comfortable retirement lifestyle Addresses essential estate planning and gifting issues With The Bogleheads' Guide to Retirement Planning, you'll discover exactly what it takes to secure your financial future, today.