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SECURE 2.0: Rethinking retirement savings

Key takeaways The age to start taking RMDs increases to age 73 in 2023 and to 75 in 2033. The penalty for failing to take an RMD will ...
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Even After a Year Like 2022, Your Retirement Income Plan Can Stay on Course

Predictions about what the markets will do or how the economy will perform are often wrong. That’s why it’s better to “prepare” rather than “predict,” and that requires ...
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Congress passes SECURE 2.0: How retirement plans will change in 2023 and beyond

Christmas came early for consumers and retirement advisors late last week when Congress passed – and President Joe Biden signed into law – a $1.7 trillion omnibus spending ...
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How to know you’re on track with your retirement savings, according to a financial expert

Investing money for retirement can be daunting, especially since it’s common for future retirees to worry about whether or not they’ll have enough money to last them through their golden years. ...
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Just 1 in 3 Americans understands this crucial component of planning smartly for retirement — and that lack of knowledge could prove very costly

Are you sure you’re ready to retire? No, really … are you sure? Although some 73% of American workers say they’re on track for a comfortable lifestyle in ...
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Doing Your Retirement Income Planning in the Right Order Matters

For all sorts of activities, doing things in the right order matters. We mostly talk about the process of retirement income planning, but the order of retirement income planning is important. To ...
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Protecting Retirement Portfolios in a Bear Market

According to a study by the Employee Benefit Research Institute, over a quarter of retirees are spending more than they can afford due to the pressures of inflation and a ...
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4 Ways Taxes Could Burst Your Retirement Bubble (and What to Do About Them)

When people think about retirement planning, they tend to put their focus on saving and investing so they have a nice nest egg when they quit working. And ...
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How To Build Your Own Retirement Paycheck

As the CEO of a company whose mission is to help people secure retirement, I am obsessed with the unintended consequences of retirement planning and advice that focuses ...
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To Plan Your Retirement, Look Beyond The Online Income Calculators

We’ve all heard the problems with relying on numbers: garbage in, garbage out; liars figure, and figures lie; 87.2% of statistics are made up; and so forth. Yet ...
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