Today, your retirement portfolio may include stocks, bonds and mutual funds that all play a part in helping you achieve a successful retirement. However, you may want to consider adding an annuity, which can complement your portfolio by providing attributes for retirement those categories do not offer. The chart below outlines these retirement attributes, particularly the ability of annuities to deliver the reliable lifetime income you’ll need in retirement. Annuities may not be right…

It may sound like common sense, or even cliché, but many who were born in the 1930’s or 1940’s grew up listening to parents discuss the “stock market” as a source of destruction and loss. As a result, those retirees may seek to “fix” their income in a world where the cost of lifestyle sustaining goods increases year after year. The problem is exacerbated in traditional systematic withdrawal programs when retiring at a market…

The Big Picture of 2018 Tax Changes

From: intuit.com

The Callan Periodic Table of Investment Returns

From: Callan

The Callan Periodic Table of Investment Returns conveys the strong case for diversification across asset classes (stocks vs bonds), investment styles (growth vs value), capitalizations (large vs small), and equity markets (U.S. vs non-U.S.). The Table highlights the uncertainty inherent in all capital markets. Rankings change every year. Also noteworthy is the difference between absolute and relative performance, as returns for the top-performing asset class…