Spending in Retirement
Learn how to best work with clients to determine their optimal retirement spending plan.
Increased optimism feeding investor risk appetite
By Staff WriterA survey released Thursday finds optimism about global economic growth has reached its highest level since 2004, and risk appetite has started to pick up. In...
April 14, 2009
Retirement confidence drops to record lowSurvey results show worker confidence in being able to retire comfortably this year has plummeted to a new low at 13 percent. Analysis from the...
April 14, 2009
EBRI: Pension sponsors to maintain risky investingFunding for public pension plans is quickly eroding due to investment losses, but it's unlikely that underfunded sponsors will be motivated to make the shift...
April 10, 2009
Survey: investment managers decrease cash positionsGlobal investment managers show signs they want to get back into the market. A survey of investment managers by Northern Trust Global Advisors (NTGA) found...
April 09, 2009
The real source of retirement incomeFor all the industry angst over the need for retirement income products and strategies, the simplest answer (as usual) might prove best. Bloomberg speculates on...
April 09, 2009
Retirement benefits will never be the same, workers sayWhen the economy does improve, will employers reinstate the same retirement benefits? That's a good question, according to a majority of workers. A Harris Poll released...
April 09, 2009
Advisors turn to peers for adviceOne cynical advisor called it "castaways clinging to each other to stay afloat." It reminded us never to give money to this advisor. Advisor networking and...
April 08, 2009
Retirement Income OutlookWhile there's les than sunny news these days when it comes to retirement-income planning, the "crisis" might not be as widespread as reported, says a new report by Andrew G. Biggs of the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.