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POPSTarget Date Funds Not Good in Retirement Professor Zvi Bodie says Target Date Funds make sense during your working life. Such Funds should move more and more of your assets out of equities as you get closer to retirement. In retirement some of those assets should be converted into inflation protected annuities. The aim being to create a guaranteed income for life.
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POPSWant Retirement Income that Never Runs Out? Finance Professor Zvi Bodie talks a lot of sense for Baby Boomers wanted to protect their nest eggs, avoid large losses and have regular inflation adjusted retirement income for life. Watch the videos as he explains how inflation adjusted annuities can work for you too.
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POPSBaby Boomers unprepared to meet Financial Advisors I am sure there are many professional financial planners who will help these unprepared baby Boomers. But I believe there are many more who see Baby Boomers as a way to maintain their own lifestyle. Watch out for high percentage based fees, hidden charges, presentations on long term survival based on the flaw of average returns, misuse of overly optimistic Monte Carlo Simulations, no strategy to limit losses and many more dangers. These are covered in my eBook "What Every Baby Boomer should know about protecting their nest Egg in Retirement". Be prepared for your meeting with your financial adviser.
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POPSBay Boomers - Living Off Your Investments This is a great article from Accumulating Money. The point about investing in Funds that guard against big losses when we are in retirement is well put. Whilst you would use proper asset allocation to invest your Nest Egg it does help show how different withdrawals rates can seriously affect your financial survival.
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POPSBaby Boomers: Good Advice for Retirement This article is one of the first I have seen that mentions two things we need in retirement: 1. A Cash Reserve so we don't have to sell stocks in a down-turn just to live. 2. A way to invest in the markets with tools to help protect against the down-side.
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POPSYour Retirement Nest Egg... Do You Really Want to Risk It? This Post by Erich Frerking clearly points out the dangers in retiring just when the stock market heads downwards and you do not protect your nest egg against large losses. There is a link to a table showing how your nest egg would have performed from 2000 until now. Take a look and then take steps to protect your nest egg now.
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POPSReasons Recessions Are Good For The Economy More people should try and understand this. Plus they should try to protect themselves when bad times hit. Once thing of note after the DotCom bust there was a massive amount if Internet Infrastructure that was purchased for next to nothing by businesses that were financially viable. So there was a "greater good" though many caught up in it might not have thought so at the time.
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POPSBaby Boomers - From Nest Egg to Goose Egg Ben Stein and Phil DeMuth talk a lot of sense about protecting your retirement nest egg if you have managed to accumulate one. The website lays out the things you should be concerned about if you are about to retire. The one thing that is critical though is, don't suffer a large loss as you begin your retirement if you can possibly help it. http://www.phildemuth.com/