
Weekend Reading: Managing Taxes in Retirement using the Effective Marginal Tax Rate
To create a “tax alpha” retirement plan, your focus should be on leveraging tax-saving strategies that maximize your after-tax returns.

Weekend Reading: What Investments Actually Beat Inflation Since 2020?
Your biggest lesson here should be the importance of investment diversification and having a personalized framework to follow, as both will help keep you on track in the midst of inflation and interest rate cycles.

Weekend Reading: Four Things That Make Money Meaningful
How does finding meaning and purpose in life relate to your relationship with money? In Viktor Frankl's book, Man’s Search for Meaning, he reflects on his experience in Nazi death camps, emphasizing that even in the darkest times, moments of happiness and meaning can be found.

Weekend Reading: Guaranteed Lifetime Income is a Better Solution than Taxable Bonds
Interest rates might be at 20-year highs, but you can utilize this current economic environment to your advantage through the use of guaranteed lifetime income solutions, such as annuities or insurance products.

Weekend Reading: Don’t Overlook Post-Retirement Roth Conversion Benefits
You often hear of the benefits of Roth conversions during your working years, but when carried out during retirement, they can also help you enhance your income options, manage tax situations and support your estate planning goals.

Weekend Reading: The Infinite Ladder
When it comes to end-of-year reflections, you are likely to do so in a linear fashion. However, another – albeit unique – strategy is to consider your life thus far as an "infinite ladder," where progress occurs in both inner and outer dimensions.

Weekend Reading: How to Stop Carrying Too Much Financial Anxiety
Are your financial worries preventing you from living the fulfilling life you deserve? Tomorrow isn’t promised and time is priceless. There’s no better moment than the present to take action and get ahead of your anxieties before they overwhelm you.

Weekend Reading: Do Stocks Get Safer The Longer You Own Them?
The stock market will never be “safe”, and while this is important to recognize, it doesn’t mean it still can’t be a valuable tool for you in retirement.

Weekend Reading: Any Way You Want It
You have numerous options for creating the right income strategy for you, but if you’re simply taking withdrawals from your investment portfolio, you don’t have a strategy.

Weekend Reading: Searching for When
One of the big questions that might impact you when you retire is your decision on when to begin collecting Social Security benefits. Here, author Patrick Brennan explores the factors that influenced his filing strategy after retiring from the Coast Guard at age 63.

Weekend Reading: Understanding and Overcoming FOBO (Fear of Better Options)
Have you ever avoided making a decision due to worry that a better option might exist? This is called FOBO, a psychological phenomenon that causes analysis paralysis and makes decision-making stressful.

Weekend Reading: What’s Really Driving Inflation and Bond Yields?
You won’t find the best investment guidance in fear-inducing news headlines or from conflicting economist forecasts. It’s guesstimates on all fronts. For the best course of action amidst puzzling economic environments, follow a comprehensive framework that’s designed to cover any outcome.