The New Math of Retirement

Financial Planning - The New Math of Retirement - Michael Greene, September 1, 2013

There have long been certain metrics—financial planning assumptions—that advisors have used in order to structure their clients' portfolios to achieve a comfortable retirement. While the future has ever been unknowable, these assumptions seemed to stand the test of time. Unfortunately, biology, markets and politics have conspired to invalidate those assumptions. Today, the retirement planning script has been rewritten, and almost none of these beloved planning metrics hold true anymore. They've been replaced with new numbers that advisors must begin to integrate into their planning now, or risk leaving their clients—even their wealthiest ones—high and dry in their Golden Years.

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