Income Planning
Learn what experts and top advisors say about the best ways to work with clients to determine and build successful retirement income plans.
What Will It Mean to Be an Independent Financial Advisor?
By Ellen UzelacWith baby boomers moving into self-funded retirement, the advisor will need to become expert at risk analysis, risk management and financial life planning. There will...
May 29, 2008
Adding Guaranteed Income to a QDIAWhile the introduction of Qualified Default Investment Alternatives (QDIA) to defined contribution plans has enabled sponsors to help participants accumulate retirement savings, a new study released by Richmond, Virginia-based Genworth Financial during the company's 2008 Retirement Symposium in May has revealed that adding guaranteed income to a QDIA offers even...
May 27, 2008
DOL's Priorities for 2008 and BeyondThe Department of Labor (DOL) will continue to scrutinize the indirect compensation that advisors acting as pension consultants receive, warned Alan Lebowitz, a DOL official,...
May 08, 2008
A Need to Work TogetherThe government and policymakers must work together if the 401(k) plan is going to remain the dominant private-sector device for retirement savings, said Paul Schott...
May 01, 2008
Making Volatility a Retiree's FriendJ. Michael Martin's goal for his clients, about 80% of whom are retirees or those getting ready to retire, is not to have a negative...
May 01, 2008
Introducing the Wealthy to Roth IRAsAdvisors take heed: the income limit for those who can convert their retirement holdings from a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA (now applicable to...
May 01, 2008
Retirement Risk RedefinedIn a story as poignant as it is telling, an Illinois wealth manager related that he and his two sisters must now provide for their...