Investing

What are older investors to do right now? Get out of the stock market entirely? Stay out of the market if you have already decided to get out? Get back into the market now or wait and risk further increases while on the sidelines? Place the majority of your savings in bonds? Purchase an immediate annuity ? Purchase that immediate annuity with inflation protection? Tough questions for both investors and their advisors. There are some good thoughts and discussions shared in a recent New York...

PriceWaterhouseCoopers ("PWC") released a report suggesting that the landscape for financial advisors may be shifting towards more objective, performance-based compensation. The report indicates that the financial advisor of the near-future may be compensated based on the long-term performance of client assets: In this increasingly competitive environment, compensation of advisers will change to reward long-term investing, with less money earned from short-term “ churning ” of...

The picture for near and current retirees has changed 180 degrees in the past couple of years. Questions such as where to retire and what do do during retirement are replaced with whether to retire and how to make sure one does not run out of money during retirement. Working longer, waiting to draw on Social Security , and understanding longevity risk are front and center for the vast majority of retirees. Decumulation or drawing sustainable income from accumulated financial assets is one of...