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Medigap or Medicare Advantage Plans

by Ashby Daniels, CFP®

As an advisor working with retirees, one of the most common questions I am asked is, “Should you choose Medigap or a Medicare Advantage Plan?” Before I get to that, I’ll lay out an example for why this choice exists in the first place and then we can get into the weeds of these two plan options. I’ll also provide pros and cons for each coverage type and who each… Read More

Filed Under: Financial Planning, Healthcare in Retirement, Medicare

How to Invest For a 30+ Year Retirement

by Ashby Daniels, CFP®

A couple of weeks back, I had the pleasure of chatting with Taylor Schulte, CFP® on his retirement podcast, “Stay Wealthy.” Taylor is a highly respected retirement expert, so naturally, I was excited to have a public chat about a topic we are both passionate about. On the podcast, we discuss my post, A Portfolio Strategy for 30-Year Retirements, to include the following topics: Why living longer should be a… Read More

Filed Under: Dividend Growth Investing, Financial Planning, Investing, Retirement Income Planning, Retirement Planning

A Portfolio Strategy For 30-Year Retirements

by Ashby Daniels, CFP®

PLEASE NOTE: This is a long post, but I passionately believe that if retirees have any chance of getting things right, they must properly understand all the underlying assumptions they are making in their retirement planning decision process. And because I view the subject(s) of this particular article to be so important, I wanted all the thoughts in one place instead of being spread amongst three or four individual posts… Read More

Filed Under: Financial Planning, Investing, Passive Investing, Planning Process, Popular Posts, Retirement Income Planning, Retirement Planning

Why Average Market Returns Mean Nothing

by Ashby Daniels, CFP®

David Hultstrom of Financial Architects puts out a great quarterly newsletter for financial advisors (and a great one for investors as well). In the most recent version of his advisor newsletter, he posted the following chart below with some great commentary that I wanted to share with you. The average compound return (i.e. geometric) is 9.75% (red line). Only in 1992 did an annual return round to 10%. In only… Read More

Filed Under: Financial Planning, Investing, Retirement Income Planning, Retirement Planning

Why I Choose to Focus on Helping Retirees

by Ashby Daniels, CFP®

Given that I focus exclusively on retirement planning for individuals, I am often asked the simple question, “Why?”. There are three primary reasons: (1) It’s needed. The American College conducted a retirement literacy quiz with over 1,200 Americans age 60-75 with at least $100,000 in household assets (not including their primary residence) and the results were putrid. • Retirement literacy remains low – 74% failed the 38-question retirement literacy quiz!•… Read More

Filed Under: Financial Planning, Retirement Income Planning, Retirement Planning

The Problems With Behavioral Investment Advice

by Ashby Daniels, CFP®

In a recent Morningstar article titled, “Do Investors See Financial Advisors As Behavioral Coaches?“, Samantha Lamas discussed survey results regarding what investors find most valuable about financial advisors. What I found most interesting wasn’t what rated highly, but what rated poorly. In the survey, Morningstar asked individual investors to rank a specific set of attributes by order of importance. The list of attributes is here: In particular, many planners (myself… Read More

Filed Under: Financial Planning, Investing

Spending Your Life Savings - Two Ideas For Overcoming the Fear of Spending in Retirement

by Ashby Daniels, CFP®

Retirement should be one of the most fun times of your life. But, generally, that’s only possible if you’re comfortable spending your life savings. I find that there are two psychological barriers that tend to restrict spending in retirement that I think are largely overlooked by the retirement community. If you intend to get comfortable spending in retirement, it helps to be aware of these barriers and find strategies to… Read More

Filed Under: Financial Planning, Retirement Income Planning, Retirement Planning

One Bad Decision Is All It Takes

by Ashby Daniels, CFP®

There is a saying in professional golf that, “You can’t win a tournament on Thursday, but you sure can lose it.”  For the golf uninitiated, every professional golf tournament starts on Thursday and concludes on Sunday.  So, a good round on Thursday can put you in position to win with three rounds to go, but a terrible round on Thursday is likely to result in missing the cut and any… Read More

Filed Under: Financial Planning, Retirement Income Planning

“Optimal” Retirement Planning Strategies

by Ashby Daniels, CFP®

I read articles regularly that discuss optimal portfolio withdrawal strategies.  I think these articles are great but are probably best kept in the academic world.  In other words, they should not be given to clients.  I have a friend that was forwarded one of these articles by an advisor as the basis for their retirement planning decisions and asked for my thoughts.  Don’t get me wrong, it’s great that this advisor… Read More

Filed Under: Financial Planning, Planning Process

“Best Interest” is not Black & White

by Ashby Daniels, CFP®

Back in March, the CFP Board voted to require every CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNERTM professional that provides financial planning to be held to the duty of care of a fiduciary starting October 1, 2019.  I greatly applaud this move!  For folks not in our industry, if an advisor is a fiduciary, then that advisor is legally and ethically required to put your best interest before their own. Up to this point, the… Read More

Filed Under: Financial Planning

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