Retirement Strategies
Parents who save for themselves before they attempt to save for their kid’s college tuition, or to help them qualify for a mortgage, are doing everyone a favor. Remember, your kids can always borrow money for college and a house, but there are no loans to cover the cost of retirement.
Having a well-crafted retirement plan not only gives you the peace of mind and confidence to live retirement well, but it will also ensure that you leave behind an organized legacy for your heirs so your assets don’t become a burden.
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Planning for retirement early?
The first step in any trip is figuring out where you want to go. With retirement planning, that means determining what kind of nest egg you think you’ll need, given your lifestyle and goals for your retirement years.
Early years 20s–30s: The earlier you start saving, the more wealth you are likely to amass as a result of basic math, tax advantages, and historic investment returns.
Later years, 40s–50s: There are options to prioritize retirement savings in later years. These include making catch-up contributions to tax-advantaged retirement accounts, reducing fixed expenses, and creating an additional income stream to fortify your nest egg.
Annuities
Plan for the life you want with annuities—one of the few sources of retirement income that can guarantee income for life. No matter how you envision retirement, having the freedom to live life your way will depend, at least in part, on a secure source of reliable income. Annuities are perfect for supplementing your retirement or for creating a guaranteed income for the rest of your life.
There are different annuity products. For example, some annuities are designed as a long-term product, which accepts payments that allow potential tax-deferred growth that eventually gets distributed back to the owner of the annuity. Others help you accumulate savings for long-term goals, like retirement, or focus on providing a guaranteed income stream.
Annuities have numerous benefits, but with one thing in common:
- It protects monthly income to one’s retirement.
- It is a product that will support the life you planned for yourself for the rest of your life.
