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Month: July 2021

The Most Important Thing About Retirement Success

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The single most important way to achieve retirement success is to have an actual written plan. You can’t buy a home, get a mortgage, buy a car, open a bank account, get health insurance, or even get married without having all the details in writing. So why would you let your advisor invest 1 million dollars or more of your money without everything in writing?

It’s because your advisor said don’t worry, everything will be OK. Why would you take someone’s word for this? You can’t know for certain everything will be OK unless you have an actual comprehensive written plan. Your statements don’t count.

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What is a ‘Safe’ Income Withdrawal Rate?

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It’s Crucial to Ensure You Won’t Run Out of Money in Retirement

What does the phrase “safe income withdrawal rate” mean to you? Most people would answer, “the amount of income you can withdraw from your assets without the fear of running out of income during your lifetime.” This seems cut and dried. But you have to look at what the word “safe” means to different people.

“Safe” to some people might actually mean “safer than something else,” such as you stating that you are “driving safe” because you are going 80 miles per hour while everyone else on the road is driving 90 miles per hour, but the posted speed limit is 65 miles per hour. And then, “safe” to other people might mean the chance of anything negative happening is 0%. In planning for retirement, safe better mean safe, something you can count on for sure. Safe better not mean “kind of safe.”

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Episode 13: Tackling Retirees Biggest Fear: Establishing Income in Retirement

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Once you retire, that consistent paycheck that you’ve been depending on your whole life suddenly disappears. Now is the time to look towards all of those assets that you’ve saved and turn them into a new kind of income. Finding a way to do this, and ensuring that you’ll have enough income to last your entire retirement is one of the biggest fears that retirees struggle with as they plan to retire. This week on the Peak Financial Freedom Show, Jim and Dan are here to help teach you the basics of generating income in retirement.

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