CREATING FINANCIAL SECURITY IN RETIREMENT
Knowing when to retire and what your retirement lifestyle may look like can be challenging. This is where financial planning can be helpful. Our advisors and CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professionals work with our clients to define goals throughout retirement and to set realistic expectations for spending. Pensions, social security, and projected investment income are also considered to develop detailed financial plans for our clients.
Retirement-focused financial planning helps provide valuable insight into ways to:
- Protect your wealth
- Fund your goals & lifestyle
- Take care of your family
- Build your legacy
WHAT IS A FINANCIAL PLAN?
A detailed document that involves a thorough analysis of a person’s financial situation to provide advice and recommendations on how to achieve personal and financial goals throughout retirement. Financial plans are are useful for providing insight into realistic spending capacity, understanding how to protect current assets, uncovering modifications to allow for improved investment decisions, and identifying pathways to achieve additional goals.
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF A FINANCIAL PLAN?
- A roadmap to achieve both financial and lifestyle goals
- An analysis showcasing retirement spending potential
- Budget and cash flow recommendations
- Knowledge of how to avoid outliving assets
- Tools for wealth protection, risk management, and growth
- Saving and investment strategies and vehicles
- A safeguard against financial barriers that may appear later in life
- Gifting strategies customized to your individual situation
- Financial peace of mind
HOW DO I KNOW WHEN TO RETIRE?
Some of our clients choose to continue working, even when they’re financially able to retire. Others may continue working out of fear of not being financially ready, or to further build their wealth to achieve their goals. Lastly, some of our clients continue working out of fear that they are not financially able to retire. The only way to know when you’re financially able to retire, if you so choose, is retirement planning. Financial planning includes determining your retirement income goals and if your income and investments will cover your expenses. Our CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professionals can work with you to analyze your current spending, likely spending in retirement, retirement income, savings, investments, and more to create a detailed financial plan. This plan would provide greater insight into when you could retire with confidence in your financial security and what budget would be neccessary to achieve your goals.
Questions?
If you have any questions about our firm or how we can help you, one of our Wealth Management Advisors would be happy to assist you.
Our Process
STEP 1: INTRODUCTION & DISCOVERY MEETING
STEP 2: RETIREMENT PLANNING WORKBOOK
STEP 3: GOAL SETTING DISCUSSION
STEP 4: ANALYSIS & RESEARCH
STEP 5: RETIREMENT PLAN DEVELOPMENT
STEP 6: RETIREMENT PLAN DISCUSSION
STEP 7: IMPLEMENT RETIREMENT PLAN
STEP 8: MONITOR & UPDATE RETIREMENT PLAN
Our 8-step process is carefully crafted to gain a thorough understanding of your financial situation in order to create a detailed and goal-oriented plan.
Detail is critical when it comes to a financial plan. This is because overlooking necessary, but often forgotten, expenses such as car replacements or home maintenance can negatively affect your ability to meet your goals. Our team collects in-depth information on various aspects of your financial life and goals to develop conservative and flexible recommendations that will help give you the best chance of success.
Create a plan, so you can relax.
It is difficult to plan for the future, but a retirement-focused financial plan can provide you with a deeper understanding of your situation and provide you with peace of mind surrounding your financial security.
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