Retirement Planning Alternatives For Your Financial Future

Discover common retirement planning alternatives including IRAs, 401(k)s, and pensions to help secure your financial future.

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Overview

Exploring retirement planning alternatives is crucial for securing your financial future, especially as traditional retirement models evolve. These diverse strategies offer flexibility and potential for growth beyond conventional approaches, allowing individuals to tailor their plans to unique circumstances and goals.

Understanding the various options available can help you make informed decisions to build a resilient and prosperous post-working life.

  • Diversification: Discover how to diversify your retirement portfolio with alternative investments that can offer stability and growth.
  • Non-Traditional Assets: Learn about incorporating non-traditional assets into your plan, providing unique avenues for wealth accumulation.
  • Income Streams: Explore strategies for creating multiple income streams to ensure financial security throughout your retirement years.

KWB: Exploring Retirement Planning Alternatives for Your Future

We have all been told to plan for our retirement.  Yet, have you ever wondered why you need to consider the different retirement planning alternatives?

Perhaps you have a plan, most people do, but is it the right plan? In the following example, it is clear how advanced planning can make a huge difference for you and your loved ones.

In the table below, you can see how a 65 year old client benefited by over $100,000 with the proper retirement plan.

 

 

Consequently, in the above illustration, the client’s combined investments are $700,000 & we assumed the same 4.1% rate of return in all the scenarios. They were able to withdraw $700,000 during their retirement in all scenarios, leaving the above residual amounts at age 90. The differences between the client’s original plan, the recommended plan, and the alternate plan, are substantial.  By choosing the recommended plan, the client’s combined assets from investments are currently over half a million dollars.

By choosing the order in which to take money out of their personal registered accounts, personal non-registered accounts, corporate accounts, and TFSAs, they were able to increase their overall wealth – and the amount of money that they would be able to leave to their daughter.

If you are retiring soon like the client in the above example, or are still years away from retiring, or are already retired, you will want to speak with your KWB representative about retirement planning and wealth management today.  You, too, could benefit by tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars!  Call us today at 780-466-6204 or click here to send us an email.

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