Apr 16, 2017 | Asset Allocation, Do You Know, Planning for Longevity, Protect Your Family, Retirement Plans, Retirement Reality
“A CRR analysis finds that total wealth from retirement plans has largely been flat from 1992 to 2010,” notes a piece in thinkadvisor.com headlined Future Retirees Could Be More Reliant on Social Security. “Employer-sponsored retirement plans are providing less...
Jul 28, 2016 | Do You Know, Retirement Plans, Retirement Reality
In a washingtonpost.com piece, Rodney Brooks, one of our best financial writers, begins by saying “I seldom write about Social Security without a huge response from readers. That’s not a bad thing. It seems that just about everyone has an opinion about Social Security...
Jul 15, 2016 | Asset Allocation, Boomer Retirement, Money and Aging, Retirement Plans, Retirement Reality
For most Americans, it’s apparently the former. “Despite the fact that it can lower their Social Security benefits by as much as 30%, collecting Social Security before their full retirement age is the plan for more than four in 10 Americans age 50 or older,” writes...
Dec 7, 2015 | Boomer Retirement, Retirement Plans
Millions depend on Social Security now, but, as John Manganaro writes in a planadviser.com piece, “an RBC Wealth Management poll finds a majority of Americans don’t believe promised . . . benefits will be there for them. It’s a recipe for trouble, says RBC Wealth...
Oct 8, 2015 | Asset Allocation, Boomer Retirement, Do You Know, Planning for Longevity, Protect Your Family, Retirement Plans
We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: Social Security can be a maze, and sensibly navigating the system can put significant dollars in your pocket. “Considering so many Americans rely on Social Security for a good piece of their retirement funding, you’d...
