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Buy now for $29 Overall Rating: 4.9 / 5 Final RMD Regulations: RMDs and the Distribution Options for IRA Owners and Beneficiaries – Denise Appleby The IRS issued its highly anticipated final regulations for required minimum distributions on July 19, 2024. These regulations incorporate rules from both the SECURE Act and SECURE 2.0 Act. With …
Buy now for $29 Overall Rating: 4.5 / 5 Strategies for the Great Wealth Transfer – Tiffany House The great wealth transfer is happening over the next 10-25 years, yet many advisors miss crucial opportunities to not only assist their clients but also to strengthen relationships and engage the next generation. It is important for …
Pick a CFP Ethics date and purchase now for $19 Overall Rating: 4.9/ 5 CFP Board Code of Ethics and Standards of Conduct – Darin Shebesta Upcoming Dates and Times: Wed., January 29, 2025 – 2-4 PM ET Wed., February 26, 2025 – 2-4 PM ET Tues., March 25, 2025 – 2-4 PM ET This …
Buy now for $29 Overall Rating: 4.3 / 5 View a short clip of this presentation on YouTube. Estimating the True Cost of Retirement – David Blanchett Retirement is the most expensive “purchase” faced by most individuals. To properly forecast the value of assets during retirement, it is important to consider several other variables when …
Buy now for $29 Overall Rating: 4.7 / 5 Incorporating the Housing Asset in Retirement Planning – Shelley Giordano For middle-income retirees, home equity is the largest asset they have after the present value of their Social Security and pension benefits (working in retirement is 3rd; retirement savings is 4th). In a time when lifetime income …
Buy now for $29 Overall Rating: 4.6 / 5 Rollover and Transfer Rules for Beneficiaries of IRAs and Employer Plan Accounts – Denise Appleby The New York Times projects $16 trillion will be transferred to beneficiaries over the next ten years. With over $35 trillion held in tax-deferred retirement accounts- most of which is owned by …
Buy now for $29 Overall Rating: 4.9 / 5 New Horizons in Estate Planning – Steve Parrish Estate planning is part of financial and retirement planning. There are new estate planning considerations for financial professionals in light of the pandemic, the SECURE Act and proposed legislation, and an increasing emphasis on living versus death estate …
Buy now for $29 Overall Rating: 4.4 / 5 The New Retirement Reality – Michael Finke Advisors often view retirement income planning through the lens of the 4% rule but changes in longevity and a lower-return environment challenge conventional wisdom about safe withdrawal rates. This presentation will discuss what it means to take risk …
Buy now for $29 Overall Rating: 4.5 / 5 SECURE Act’s Definitive Roadmap to Distribution Options for Inherited IRAs – Denise Appleby The proposed RMD regulations contradict industry interpretations of the SECURE Act regarding the distribution option for beneficiaries of IRAs and employer plans. However, advisors can help beneficiaries see through the fog of this …
Buy now for $29 Overall Rating: 4.9 / 5 The Psychology of Retirement – Robert Laura What if your biggest retirement threat is not inflation, health care costs, or running out of money? While these are important, each one pales in comparison to running out of family, friends, good health, and retirement happiness. It is …
Buy now for $29 Overall Rating: 4.6 / 5 Retire with More – Tax-Advantaged Business Sales – Tiffany House We are entering the largest wealth transfer in history as the baby boomers get ready to retire and leave their legacy. Many business owners are shocked when they realize that 20%-40% of their hard-earned proceeds will …
Buy now for $29 Overall Rating: 4.6 / 5 Maximizing Social Security Benefits – Mary Beth Franklin Social Security benefits represent one of the few sources of guaranteed income that retirees can count on for life, and for most people, it is a key element of their retirement income plan. Deciding when and how to …
Buy now for $29 Overall Rating: 4.8 / 5 21st Century Medicare Planning to Protect Your Client’s Healthcare Rights and Retirement Savings – Emily Gang It is important that your clients have a clear understanding of costs relating to their future health expenses with Medicare. However, they might perceive Medicare to be a world of …
Buy now for $29 Overall Rating: 4.4 / 5 Understanding How Different Types of Annuities Work – Wade Pfau Annuities with lifetime income provisions offer risk pooling, which tends to be underappreciated as a unique source of returns that is unavailable for an investment portfolio. But there are many types of annuities in the marketplace …
Buy now for $29 Overall Rating: 4.9 / 5 Helping Clients Provide for Their Child and Protect Their Retirement with Special Needs Planning – Derek Graham Parents of a child with developmental disabilities have a variety of financial implications to consider. From waivers to government benefit programs, parents need to understand how their actions (or …
Buy now for $29 Overall Rating: 4.6/ 5 Using Housing Wealth and Qualified Retirement Benefits to Facilitate Asset Division in Silver Divorce – Barry Sacks Silver Divorce (where one or both parties are over age 55) is on the rise. Key issues of Silver Divorce are the division of assets, providing adequate retirement income for …
Buy now for $29 Overall Rating: 4.8 / 5 Grief Literacy for Financial Advisors – Kathi Balasek, MA As baby boomer women outlive their husbands, it will change who makes the financial decisions for an increasing percent of an advisor’s client base. Financial advisors who work with women and/or current widows may be ill-equipped in …
Buy now for $29 Overall Rating: 4.3 / 5 How Much Can I Spend in Retirement? A Guide to Investment-Based Retirement Income Strategies – Wade Pfau How much can I spend in retirement? Dr. Pfau has conducted an in-depth study and authored a new book that focuses on sustainable spending from investment portfolios in the face …
Buy now for $29 Overall Rating: 4.3 / 5 Fitting Home Equity into a Retirement Income Strategy – Wade Pfau How can reverse mortgages be used to better secure retirement? In the early days, reverse mortgages were generally treated as a last resort option after other resources were depleted, or as a way to obtain quick …
Buy now for $29 Overall Rating: 4.4 / 5 Adaptive-based Retirement Spending – Jamie Hopkins In an era of evolving financial landscapes, technological enhancements, and uncertain market conditions, traditional retirement income strategies like the 4% distribution strategy may no longer suffice. In fact, most of our planning today is too binary, focused on success and …
Buy now for $29 Overall Rating: 4.3 / 5 View a short clip of this presentation on YouTube. No Portfolio is an Island – David Blanchett Gain insight into how important it is that we help our clients prepare financially for retirement by considering their total wealth, and not only their investable assets. Financial assets, …
Buy now for $29 Overall Rating: 4.6 / 5 Guaranteed Income: The Forgotten Household Asset – David Blanchett Guaranteed income is the largest financial asset for most retirees, yet it’s role in a financial plan is generally quite minor, treated simply as a cash flow that can be used to fund the retirement liability. Explore …
Buy now for $29 Overall Rating: 4.5 / 5 Lifetime Income: A License to Spend – David Blanchett Deciding how much to spend from savings in retirement is complicated given uncertain lifespans, asset returns, inflation, etc. This presentation explores the concept that lifetime income can gives retirees a “license to spend” whereby households with a …
Buy now for $29 Through the Looking Glass: Three Popular Retirement Income Philosophies – Jamie Hopkins Overall Rating: 4.4 / 5 Providing comprehensive retirement income planning services helps separate your practice from the pack, keep clients for life, and get them through retirement securely. The three most popular retirement income strategies today are 1) flooring, …
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