The inflation adjusted 4% rule is a common retirement spending strategy. To follow the rule, you spend 4% of your portfolio in your first year of retirement and then increase your spending every year thereafter by 3% to account for inflation. To see if...
How Many Financial Advisors Have Conflicts of Interest? Approximately 90% of financial advisors are dual registrants which means they are both financial advisors and stockbrokers. Dual registrant financial advisors often market themselves as “fee-based.”...
Today we are going to look at the differences between a fee-only advisor and a fee-based advisor.I am writing this article for all of you who are working with someone who tells you they are fee-based and they are probably ripping you off, hiding their commissions,...
Today we’re going to look at how much federal tax you pay for $150,000 of retirement income. This is going to be a very helpful tax planning and retirement planning article. For those of you who are trying to get a handle on how much tax you are going to pay at...
