Category: Research
How has Covid-19 affected the UK's retirement finances?
A few recent studies have highlighted what impact the coronavirus pandemic has had on UK adults from each stage of the retirement journey.
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Longevity chart updates on Timeline
We’ve made some tweaks to the way our Longevity Charts look and added some supplementary information to provide extra clarity.
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Abraham Okusanya‘s latest whitepaper on retirement spending patterns
Abraham Okusanya, has released a whitepaper that busts myths around retirement spending left, right and centre. Why? Because it’s imperative for people to have the facts when deciding when to retire, how much they might need, and the optimum amount they can spend during this critical final phase.
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Timeline – The Financial Equivalent of a Well-Fitted Bra
Timeline allows us to give our clients both the support and the confidence they need to make sound decisions about their future. In many ways, very similar to the support and confidence a woman would get from a well-fitted bra!
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How AUM Fees Affect Sustainable Withdrawal
One of the great misconceptions about the Sustainable Withdrawal Rate (SWR) framework is how an adviser (and fund) fees affect withdrawals from a retirement portfolio.
This analysis shows that 1%pa translates into around 6%-12% (UK) and 9%-13% (US) of the client's overall income and capital, depending on the scenario. A total fee of 2%pa wipes out around 13%-26% (UK) and 19%-28% (US) of the overall fund, depending on the scenario.
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Bengen’s 4% Rule Around The World
How much can I draw from my retirement savings without running out of money?
This is the 64-million-dollar question Bill Bengen attempted to answer in his seminal 1994 paper published in the Journal of Financial Planning.
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Research
Thu, Nov 22, 2018
Retirement income options, happiness and a case of spurious correlation?
A fascinating new paper by L&G titled Retirement Income Riddle: New perspectives on how we make financial choices and their impact on our well-being attempts to look at the relationship between happiness and the retirement income option that people choose.
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Tue, May 29, 2018
Probabilistic Thinking and Retirement Income Planning
The fundamental question we’re trying to answer in retirement planning is this: will the money outlive the people or will the people outlive the money? The problem is we simply won’t know for sure until the event has happened, by which time it’s too late to plan.
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