Tag: Retirement Income Planning

How Much Investment Return Do You Really Need in Retirement? (Ep. 71)

How Much Investment Return Do You Really Need in Retirement? (Ep. 71)

How much investment return do you really need in retirement? If you’re within 5 to 10 years of retiring, should you still be trying to beat the market, or should your retirement plan focus on replacing your paycheck?

In this episode, Greg DuPont explains why people approaching retirement may be watching the wrong financial scoreboard. Retirement income planning looks at how your savings and investments can work together to provide income after you stop working. Greg explores how market losses, investment fees, Roth conversions, inflation, and required minimum distributions may affect your retirement income and future tax bill.

Greg discusses:

  • Why retirement income may tell you more about your plan than investment returns
  • How fees inside IRAs, 401(k)s, and mutual funds can reduce your retirement savings
  • How much investment return you may need to keep pace with inflation in retirement
  • How Roth conversions and RMD planning may affect your retirement income and taxes
  • And more!

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Why the 4% Rule Could Fail You in Retirement (Ep. 50)

Why the 4% Rule Could Fail You in Retirement (Ep. 50)

Greg is back to dismantle one of the most widely accepted yet dangerously outdated retirement concepts: the 4% rule.

In this episode, Greg DuPont shares his research and frustrations that made him question why many advisors still cling to outdated income planning assumptions that could jeopardize retirement outcomes. From the origins of the 4% rule to today’s evolving withdrawal realities, Greg explains why “just pulling 4%” is not a strategy and what proactive advisors and consumers should be doing instead.

Greg discusses:

  • Why the 4% rule is more folklore than fact in today’s environment
  • How the sequence of return risk and market cycles can complicate distribution planning
  • The real cost of fees and taxes when using this outdated rule
  • Smarter strategies to build flexible, reliable retirement income
  • And more!

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