Humans make mistakes. And the Required IRA Distribution rules can be tricky, especially if you’re new to retirement distributions. So if you are better than 70 ½ years old and you own an IRA, you may want to review this list. Remember, the penalty for failing to meet your Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) is a …
Finanicial Risk
How to avoid going broke in retirement
A big scary question for many folks is, will they have enough money in retirement? You might think that if everybody is worried about it, then somebody might come up with a solution. Well, they have . . . sort of. Maybe you have noticed the commercials for “lifetime income” popping up more often on …
What is Risk Tolerance?
If you are talking with an investment representative, a stockbroker or a financial advisor, you most likely will talk about “risk tolerance.” Risk tolerance is a term used in the investment business to talk about the willingness of a client to accept a loss in the value of their investment account over a short period …
Why would anyone buy an annuity?
I bet you have seen some cool marketing about great “guaranteed income” retirement products. Conversely, I will also suppose that you have seen a few marketing messages that talk about annuities being the spawn of the devil and that nobody should ever own an annuity. Regular readers of this blog will not be surprised when …
What is Financial Risk?
Risk is a topic that gets a lot of attention in the financial planning business. But it’s a term that’s not really well understood. There are many technical definitions of financial planning risk. And there is the Webster’s Dictionary definition of risk: 1. The possibility of loss or injury. 2. The chance that an …
