Retirement Planning
A plan for the paycheck that replaces your paycheck.
Retirement planning is the work of turning accumulated savings into reliable monthly income that lasts as long as you do — while managing taxes, inflation, and the risk of a bad market in your first few years of retirement.
Cover the essentials first
We start by separating essential expenses — housing, food, utilities, insurance, healthcare — from discretionary ones. Essentials should be matched to guaranteed sources: Social Security, any pension, and if there is a gap, a portion of savings converted into guaranteed income.
Sequence-of-returns risk
A market downturn in the first five years of retirement does far more damage than the same downturn later, because you are selling assets into weakness. Buffer assets and guaranteed income sleeves exist specifically to protect against this.
Tax diversification
Having money in three tax buckets — taxable, tax-deferred, and tax-free — gives you control over your bracket every year of retirement. Roth conversions in low-income years and properly structured life insurance cash value both contribute to that third bucket.
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