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Things We Wished We Knew Before Retirement
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Well it's great to be with you all again it's
another video day for us – It is – So things that we wish we knew before we retired almost
sounds like a country music song there Tina – And I guess you must be feeling lucky
today Norm – Oh yeah got my lucky shirt on so because we're filming been to
Costco – Got the great deals haven't we – We have so one of the things that we wish we knew
before we retired was how free it is how stress free no longer having to get up and go through the
morning ritual of preparing yourself to go to work and being accountable to somebody else all
day long it's wonderful to be accountable to your own self and your partner that's it
you're your own person and it's such a freeing feeling and we saw that with Tina when she gave
up work the amount of stress we hadn't realized until a few years after retirement just how
different she was she'd lost all that stress of meeting quotas and all that good stuff – And I think
I'll just add Norm that when you're actually doing the job you actually don't think it is stressful
you don't think you are under all this stress until you stop it do something else and
you think wow this is a lot better we like this it's great so just being accountable to ourselves
we love it don't we – It is totally life changing – One thing that we do think is very important
before you retire is you do need to have a discussion with your partner as to what it is
that the ideas that you're both thinking you have when you're going to retire you do need to
have some goals about, do you want to travel do you want to garden or do hobbies do you want
to stay home you really do need to have that conversation to make sure you're both on the
same page – I think it is it is important and we hear a lot from some comments especially
married women who are saying that their husband their frightened the husband will get under their feet
because he'll be hanging around all the time in retirement but that really isn't the case – Not
for us is it – We've been secure as a couple for the longest time and retirement hasn't changed
how we feel about each other and about what our expectations of each other is it's not as if
we've all of a sudden being locked up together in retirement (no) so it is important to figure out
what you both want out of retirement and to have that discussion a few years before you actually
do retire (yeah) one thing to bear in mind is the first few years of your retirement you'll
be your most healthy so just use that health and strength that you do have in the early years
to achieve some of the goals that you want – Yeah and if you want to be traveling do it while
you've got that – Don't think about traveling if that's on your list just do it right away – Yeah
absolutely and that's what we've done isn't it when we retired we just traveled everywhere
didn't we it was great – About two years before we retired we had an inspector come to the house
for I don't even remember what it was but it was some form of home inspection that we had to and
so we got chatting with him because he was a few years older than us but not that much and he told
us that he had a house very similar to ours that he had sold and now he was living an apartment
and he went through the whole process of them and how they moved to the apartment and how
it was such an improvement on their life and it was something we'd never ever considered
– This was big news to us wasn't it we never even thought about renting an apartment – We had been
homeowners since we were 19 years old so to rent we had that preconceived idea that it was throwing
money away but the more that we looked into it so after he left the next couple of days we spent
many hours thinking about this we did a budget of how much it cost to keep our mortgage free
home – Yeah crunched all the numbers – And what the rent would be and if we had sold the house and it
made more and more sense to us to sell the house to downsize into an apartment bank the money
from the house live off that as an investment and that's what we did – And that's what we did didn't
we – But had that guy not come to our house we might never have come up with that idea – No because
originally we had thought that we would just buy a smaller house didn't we – That's right yeah
– So part of our decision when we had actually now decided that we were going to rent and we realized
that would take care of we wouldn't have all this maintenance and stuff like that to do we decided
after we started looking at apartments that if we moved to a cheaper area could we benefit by
getting the same as what we wanted in an apartment but would it cost us less money so the more
we looked into it we did have a family member who lived in a cheaper place so we looked
at the equivalent of renting an apartment in this new place and it was so much cheaper
wasn't it Norm – Because we initially thought we would just sell our house and stay in
the same area so we started shopping for apartments to find out how much they cost and the
availability and we were pretty surprised that at the expense of them but we were prepared
to pay that (yeah) and then we came to a what you would call it a small town that's cheaper
(yeah) we came to visit a family member here and so we started looking around at the apartments here
and they were substantially cheaper about $800 a month cheaper than where we were initially going
to – Yeah and not only that Norm there was a lot of extras with it wasn't that we got there was
underground parking and what else a swimming pool – And laundry facilities in the apartment – And that
was one thing the gentleman had told us he didn't have on-suite laundry he had it in a laundry room
so we wanted that – But coming to the cheaper town it wasn't just the rents that were
cheaper everything was cheaper the Tina's hairdresser as we've
said in the past was cheaper it just permeated everything so our budget became
so attainable (yeah) by moving – That gave us a lot more money to be able to travel didn't it because
we thought if we can save money on a daily basis and it worked perfect didn't it – It did it was
great, take a look at that if you do have family that live in an area that might be cheaper or
just consider going not knowing anybody – No it's like a new adventure isn't it a new chapter in
your life because we've made friends here and they don't have any family just here but they've
made it a new place for them haven't they – A lot of people have moved out of the big cities to a
small town because it's it's far more conducive to retirement (yes) and friendlier another
thing that you really need to consider is where your friends are going to come from
in retirement because once you leave work those friendships tend to wither away because
the only common bond you have was your job your workplace so we've never
really had lasting friendships from work colleagues they've always been outside
of there so it's it's critically important to continue looking for friendships in retirement
and being outgoing and prepared to speak to people Tina when we moved to this apartment building
they did have a social room and they did a coffee morning and so she would go down there and we
found out so much information about the town and businesses to use – It was great wasn't it – It was – It
was kind of my mission wasn't it to find out new information and to try and make new friends
which we did and we made some fabulous friendships – Well in particular there was one couple that Tina
made struck up a friendship with and they in turn have introduced us to another couple yeah and then
they in turn have introduced us to another couple so that's how it goes – Yeah so now we've got
a group of really close nice friends that we socialize with don't we – And the thing that we have
in common isn't an employer it's being retired – It is isn't it – It really is so don't be afraid
of striking out to a new city a new town because it's relatively easy to make friendships
– Yeah you just have to push yourself out there a little don't you and be confident to going to
things and it's very exciting isn't it so we hope that everybody is staying safe – And keeping
well – Until the next time bye bye, bye bye
Can I Retire at 55? Tips for Early Retirement
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If you're thinking of retiring at 55, you want to be careful about where you get your advice and guidance, and that's because most retirement advice is geared toward those who retire quite a bit later, in fact… Most people retire at 62, but things will be different for you if you're going to retire at 55. So that's what we'll talk about for the next couple of minutes here, we'll go over where you can get the money from, and how that works with taxes as well as healthcare, then we'll look at some actual numbers and what it might look like for somebody who retires at age 55.
We might also want to get philosophical just briefly and ask the question, Why age 55? Yes, it's a nice round number. And there are some interesting tax strategies that are available around that age, but let's say you could retire a little bit earlier at 54, would you want to make that happen? Or if you worked a few more years… I know you'll think this is crazy, but if you worked a couple of more years and you could not impact your finances, but still take some of those dream vacations and spend time with loved ones, would that be worth it to maybe work until 59, for example? So we want to figure out exactly why you are pursuing a particular goal and then we can improve the chances of success for you, so let's start with health coverage, this is a tricky one because you're retiring quite a bit earlier than most people who might be near that Medicare age, so you have a number of different options to continue being covered, and it is a good idea to have real health insurance coverage just in case something happens.
So a couple of your choices include, number one, you can continue your current benefits from a job if you have them for up to 18 months in most cases, and that's under COBRA or your state's continuation program, that can get quite expensive because you're going to pay the full price, if you weren't already doing that, plus perhaps a teeny little bit extra for administration, but it is a way to continue with the program that you currently have, so that can be helpful if you are mid stream in certain treatments or if it's going to be hard to get certain benefits that you currently have on a different health care program, unfortunately, that's not usually a long term solution because we need to get you until age 65, which is when most people enroll in Medicare, and you should see your costs go down quite a bit at that point, maybe depending on what happens, so another solution that a lot of people look at is buying their own coverage, and that happens typically through a healthcare marketplace or an exchange, and that's where you just by coverage through an insurance company.
So you can go directly to the insurers, but it's often a good idea to go through… Start at healthcare.gov, and then go through the marketplace or the exchange, and that way you can shop some plans and potentially, depending on your income, you can potentially get some cost reductions that make it a lot more affordable, I'll talk more about that in a second, but another option is to switch to a spouse's plan, if you happen to be married and that person has coverage that's going to continue for whatever reason, that might also be a solution for you, when you leave your job, it could be a qualifying event that allows you to get on that person's program, but let's talk more about saving money on health care expenses before age 65, most people are going to buy a policy based on the factors that are most important to them, so that could be the premium or the out of pocket maximum, the deductible, the co pays, certain areas of coverage, all that kind of thing, you can select a plan that fits your needs.
Now, you might find that those tend to be quite expensive, and so if your income is below certain levels, you might be able to get effectively a reduction in the premium, it might be in the form of a tax credit or a subsidy, so here's just a preview of how things could look for you, let's say your income is, let's say 50,000 in retirement, and you need to look at exactly what income means, but there is no coverage available from a spouse, we've got one adult, and let's say you are… As our video suggest age 55 here, so you might get a benefit of roughly 422 a month, meaning you could spend that much less each month, and that's going to make it a lot easier to pay for coverage on these plans, if we switch your income down to 25,000 per year, the help is even bigger, so as you can see by varying or controlling your income, and this is something you might have some control over if you retire at 55, you can also control your healthcare costs, we'll talk about some conflicting goals here, where you might not want to absolutely minimize your income during these years, but this is important for you to know if you're going to be paying for your own coverage, and if you're experiencing sticker shock when you see the prices…
By the way, I'm going to have a link to this and a bunch of other resources in the description below, so you can play with this same calculator yourself. Now, once you're on Medicare, the cost should drop quite a bit, this is a calculator from Fidelity where we can say, let's say you are a female, and we're going to say you're eligible for Medicare at this point, so we'll bring you up to age 65. It is going to be quite a bit higher cost, if you look at it before age 65, and that's because you are paying for those private policies from insurance companies, let's say you're going to live until age 93, and so you might expect to spend roughly 5800 6000 bucks per year, depending on your health and your location and other factors, it could be more or less, but this is an estimate of what somebody might spend, a single woman each year in retirement, of course, that number is going to increase each year with inflation and deteriorating health issues.
But this is a ballpark estimate of what you might be spending in the future, now we get to the question of, do you have the financial resources to retire at 55? And that comes down to the income and the assets that you're going to draw from to provide the resources you need to buy the things you want and need, and one way to look at this is to say We want to avoid early withdrawal penalties because again, you are retiring at an age that's earlier than the typical retiree and most retirement accounts are designed for you to take withdrawals at 59.5 or later, to avoid those penalties, fortunately, you have a couple of options, so with individual and joint accounts, just taxable brokerage accounts, you can typically withdraw from those without any penalties, but you may have capital gains taxes when you sell something, those taxes may be at a lower rate than you would pay if you take big withdrawals from retirement accounts, but you just want to double and triple check that, but that can be a liquid source of funds.
You. Can also typically withdraw from Roth accounts pretty easily. So those regular contributions come out first, in other words, you can pull out your regular contributions at any time with no taxes and no penalties, what that means is that's the annual limit contributions you might have been making her by year, so the 7000 per year, for example. That money would be easily accessible, but if you have other money types like Roth conversions, for example, you're going to be very careful and check with your CPA and find out what all of that could look like. There. Are other ways to get at funds that are inside of pre tax retirement accounts, and it might actually make sense to draw on those to some extent, we'll talk more about that in a minute, but these are some of the tricks you can use to avoid an early withdrawal penalty yet still draw on those assets before age 59.5.
The first one is the so called rule of 55, so this applies if you work at a job with, let's say a 401K, and you stop working at that employer at age 55 or later, if you meet certain criteria, then you can withdraw those funds from the 401k so they go directly from the 401k to you. They don't go over to an IRA, you could withdraw those funds without an early withdrawal penalty. A complication here is that not every employer allows you to do that, so 401k plans can set a bunch of their own rules, and one of them might be that they don't let you just call them up and take money whenever you want, they might make you… Withdraw the entire amount, so if that's the case, this isn't going to work, so be sure to triple check with your employer and the plan vendors and find out exactly how this would work logistically or if it will even work.
Next, we have SEPP that stands for substantially equal periodic payments or rule 72. This is an opportunity to draw funds from, let's say your IRA or a certain IRA that you choose, but before age 59 and a half without getting early withdrawal penalties. Now, this is not my favorite choice. I don't necessarily recommend this very often at all, and the reason is because it's easy to slip up and end up paying tax penalties. The reason for that is in part that it's really rigid, so when you establish this, You calculate an amount that you have to take out every year, and it has to be the same amount every year, and you have to make sure you do that for the longer of when you turn age 59 1/2 or for five years.
And even that sounds kind of simple, but it's still easy to trip up, and you also have to avoid making any kind of changes to your accounts, so it's just really rigid and can be difficult to stick to you, so… Not my favorite choice, but it could be an option. Those of you who work for governmental bodies, maybe a city organization or something like that, you might have a 457b plan, and those plans do not have early withdrawal penalties before 59 and a half, so you could withdraw money from that and use some income, pre pay some taxes, and have some money to spend fairly easily, this by the way, is an argument for leaving money in your employer's 457 versus rolling it over to an IRA, because once it goes over to an IRA, you are subject to those 59 1/2 rules and a potential early withdrawal penalty.
So that could end up leaving you with 72 to work with, for example, which again is not ideal. So you might be asking, well shouldn't I just minimize taxes and hold off on paying taxes for as long as possible? And the answer is not necessarily. So it could make sense to go ahead and pre pay some taxes by getting strategic, the reason for that is that you will eventually have to pay taxes on your pre tax money and it might happen in a big lump, and that can bump you up into the highest tax brackets, so it could be better to smooth out the rate at which you draw from those accounts and hopefully keep yourself in lower tax bracket, at least relatively speaking. So when your RMDs or your required minimum distributions kick in after age 72 under current law, that could possibly bump you up into the highest tax brackets, maybe you want to smooth things out and take some income early.
So let's look at the question of, Do you have enough with some specific numbers, and before we glance at those numbers, just want to mention that I am Justin Pritchard. I help people plan for retirement and invest for the future. I've got some good resources, I think, in the description below, some of the things that we've been talking about here today, as well as some general retirement planning information. So if this is on your mind, I think a lot of that is going to be really helpful for you. Please take a look at that and let me know what you think of what you find. It's also a good time for a friendly reminder, This is just a short video, I can't possibly cover everything. So please triple and quadruple check with some professionals like a CPA or a financial advisor before you make any decisions, so let's get back into these questions, Do you have enough? As we always need to mention, it depends on where you are and how much you spend and how things work for you. Are you lucky to retire into a good market, or are you unlucky and retiring into a bad market? All of these different aspects are going to affect your success, but let's jump over to my financial planning tool and take a look at an example.
This is just a hypothetical example, it's the world's most over simplified example, so please keep that in mind, with a real person, we've got a lot more going on. The world is a complicated place and things get messier, but we're keeping it very simple here, just to talk about an example of how things might look, so this person has one million in pre tax assets and 350,000 in a brokerage account, and if we just quickly glance at their dashboard here, pretty high probability of success, so let's make it a little bit more interesting and say…
Maybe that IRA has, let's say, 700,000 in it. What is that going to do? And by the way, this is still a lot more than a lot of people have, but again, if you're going to be retiring at 55, you typically have quite low expenses and/or a lot of assets. So let's keep in mind here that retirees don't necessarily spend at a flat inflation adjusted level, and I'll get into the assumptions here in a second, but let's just look at if this person spends at inflation minus 1% using the retirement spending "smile," that dramatically improves their chances, and I've got videos on why you might consider that as a potential reality, so you can look into that later at your leisure, but as far as the assumptions, we assume they spend about 50,000 a year, retire at age 55.
The returns are 5.5% per year, and inflation is 3% per year. Wouldn't that be refreshing if we got 3%… So we glance at their income here age 55, nothing, and then Social Security kicks in at 70. They're doing a Social Security bridge strategy. I've got videos on that as well, or at least one video, the full year kicks in here later, and then their Social Security adjust for inflation, looking at their taxes, we have zero taxes in these earlier years because they are just not pulling from those pre tax accounts. Maybe not getting much, if anything, in terms of capital gains, maybe their deduction is wiping that out, so we may have an opportunity here to actually do something and again, pre pay some taxes and pull some taxable income forward. In fact, if we glance at their federal income tax bracket, you can see that it's fairly low from 55 on, maybe they want to pull some of this income forward so that later in life, they are drawing everything out of the pre tax accounts all at once.
It just depends on what's important to you and what you want to try to do, and that brings us to some tips for doing calculations, whether you are doing this with somebody, a financial planner or on your own, you want to look at that gap between when you stop working and when your income benefits begin from, let's say, Social Security, there's also that gap between when you stop working and when Medicare starts, and that's another important thing to look at, but what are your strategies available there? Should you take some income, and exactly how much? That's going to be an area where you might have some control, so it's worth doing some good planning. We also want to look closely at the inflation and investment returns, and what are the assumptions in any software that you're using, for example? These are really important inputs and they can dramatically change what happens… You saw what happened when we switched from a flat inflation adjusted increase each year to the retirement spending smile, just a subtle little adjustment has a big difference on how things unfold, and in that scenario, by the way, we would typically have healthcare increasing at a faster rate.
But like I said, we use an over simplified example and didn't necessarily include that in this case, but you do want to click through or ask questions on what exactly are the assumptions and are you on board with those assumptions? You may also need to make some adjustments, and this is just the reality of retiring at an early age when you may have 30 plus years of retirement left, a lot can happen, and there really is a lot of benefit to making slight adjustments, especially during market crashes, for example, so.
If things are not necessarily going great, some little tweaks could potentially improve the chances of success substantially, that might mean something as simple as skipping an inflation adjustment for a year or two, or maybe dialing back some vacation spending. These are things you don't want to do, that's for sure, but with those little adjustments, you can potentially keep things on track, and that way you don't have to go back to work or make bigger sacrifices. And so I hope you found that helpful. If you did, please leave a quick thumbs up, thank you and take care..
Read MoreRetirement Planning for Singles
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Retirement is a big deal for anybody, and that's especially true for single people who may be retiring with just one income and who may have built up a nest egg solely off their own savings. So, we know that single people can and do retire comfortably. In fact, one quarter of people over age 60 are living alone in their household, and that number is slightly higher for women, and that's, of course, due to women's longevity. So what we're going to talk about here is retirement for single people. First, we'll go over some averages to give you a rough idea of what the landscape looks like for single people, then we'll get into how much money you might need as you go into retirement, then we'll talk about some tips that can help improve the chances of retiring comfortably. Let's start with the average retirement income for single people. So it's $42,000 on average for an individual in retirement, and that comes from the US Census Bureau. The median is a little bit lower at $27,000.
So a friendly reminder of how this works: The median is the middle, so if you line up all of the survey results, people telling you what their income is, for example, that arrow points at the middle observation, which would give us the median down at the bottom. But if we go to the average, that is going to get skewed by, in this case, wealthy people, for example, they have a very high income.
When it comes to Social Security, the average is about $1,500 a month or $18,000 per year.Your level depends, of course on your earnings, if you had higher earnings during your working years, then you tend to potentially have a bigger benefit than that, and it could be lower, and then of course, your claiming age is also an important thing. If you claim early at age 62, you get a reduced benefit. That's likely to bring down the amount you get. Next, we have pensions, some people get an income from a job they worked at. That might be in the public sector as a teacher, a firefighter, that sort of thing, or even in the private sector, you could have a pension from your job, and those incomes just are all over the board, it could be high, it could be low, but these are different sources of income that people might have in retirement.
This is just a friendly reminder that this is just one video and it may cover some interesting information, but it's not specific to you so I hope you'll do a lot more research, hopefully check with some professionals and get some individualized advice, and that way you can improve the chances of things going well for you. So now let's talk about how much you might need as you go into retirement. Unfortunately, there's no single answer on what you need because it depends. So the first step is to figure out what sort of income you're going to need, and I've got other videos on that, I'll put links in the description to get you some more information, but you can look at replacing a portion of your income, or you can just say, I want X amount of dollars per year, or you can go with other approaches, but first we need to know how much income you are hoping for.
Next, we tally up your income sources, so that might be some guaranteed income that comes in from Social Security, for example, or from your pension at your workplace, but that forms a base of income and that might or might not cover what you need. But it gives us a base and then if we need to fill that in, we can supplement withdrawals from your retirement savings, so that might be out of your IRA, your 401, 403, these accounts that you have built up over time can provide supplemental income to help fill the gap between that guaranteed income you get and the amount you actually want to spend.
There are a number of ways to figure out how much to withdraw and to set up different strategies, there might be bucking strategies, there might be withdrawal strategies like the 4% rule. Or if you don't like that, make it the 3% rule to be safer, or take out more if you think that's not enough and you're selling yourself short. Ultimately, there are a number of ways to approach this, so you just pick one that works well for you, and again, I can point you to some resources on figuring that out. And finally, you will want to look at taxes and inflation, so during your retirement years, it's reasonable to assume that prices may increase on many of the things you buy, so we want your income to be able to increase as well, Social Security typically does rise, but maybe not at the same rate as the things you're buying, so your withdrawals may need to account for that.
Plus we've got taxes. You typically will owe taxes if you're taking distributions or you're taking withdrawals from pre tax retirement accounts. If you have a pension that might be taxable as well. We just want to look at all of these things and figure out what your ultimate money left over to spend each month is going to be. For an over simplified example, let's just look at Jane Doe. She's 60 years old, she's single, she wants to retire in about five years, she makes about 80,000 a year and has 700,000. A lot of people retire with less than that, a lot of people retire with more. I'm going to bring up my financial planning software that I use with clients, and we'll just go over kind of why there's no single answer on how much you need.
Now, if you can tell me exactly how long you'll live and what the markets will do and what inflation will look like, we can tell you exactly what you'll need. But there are a lot of unknowns, so a lot of times we start with a probability of success and I'll go over what that means, and then we look at little tweaks and how different changes might affect that probability of success, so working an extra year might bring her from… Let's say 75% to 84% likely to succeed. Now, success and failure are pretty complicated. They don't necessarily mean that you go completely broke, but you may need to make some adjustments, so let's talk about what does the success mean? We, again, cannot predict the future, so we say, Let's look back and say, You get dealt 1,000 hands. You're playing a game of cards and you get 1,000 hands. Some of those are good and some of those are bad, so the very good ones tend to be up here, near the top. And you actually end up with a lot of money left over.
Some of them are not as good and you end up running out of money early. The median is, again, that one that's right in the middle when we line them up in order for best to worst. And so you might say, you're probably not going to get the best, you're probably not going to get the worst, although anything is possible. So that's how we go with this likelihood of success. Now, maybe she doesn't want to work an extra year, so we can look at different ways of accomplishing things here. By the way, we've built in some long term care in case she does get sick and needs that at the end of life. She's looking to spend about 4,000 a month, that's after some health care costs that are going to inflate each year, and she's saving a decent amount in some 401K and taxable accounts. Let's say she goes ahead and maxes out that Roth, is it going to make a big difference? Not really, 'cause she only has five years left.
So what we do here is we start looking at all of these different variables and playing with the pieces and figuring out what does it take to make her successful at her retirement, or at least successful enough that she's comfortable making that transition. So here are some tips to improve your chances. The first is to plan for long term care. If you're living on your own, you don't have somebody in the house who can help you do things, and it's arguable if even a couple is capable of managing this on their own… I mean, if you think about a couple, is one of the people physically able to move the other person around and do they have the skills to provide health care, and the time and the energy, frankly, to provide all that type of care? So it's important for everybody, but it's especially important for single people to plan for this care.
So you can look at getting insurance, you can look at budgeting for some costs, like we showed you in the software, you might want to budget for a much bigger number if you go into memory care or something like that with 24 hour supervision, it can get really expensive quickly. And you can explore different living arrangements, maybe doing things with friends or certain communities that might be a good fit for you. Next is to avoid leaving money on the table so if you were previously married and your spouse passed away or you've been divorced, you may be eligible for benefits. That's maybe from Social Security, you can potentially get a survivor's benefit, or if you were married for at least 10 years and you've been divorced, you can potentially get spousal benefits on your ex spouse's work record.
It's just important to explore all of these to see if there are any resources available for you. Next is to make a plan, and I am of course biased as a financial planner, but I think it is really helpful to go through the process, and the main goal isn't to get a big document that tells you what your financial plan is. Instead, really, the benefit is going through that process and learning a lot about your finances as you do it, and in that process, you get an idea of what the risks are, how you're doing, you might get confidence and clarity on whether or not you can go ahead and retire, if you should do certain things or not.
It's just a very valuable process for a lot of people, but I'll leave that for you to decide. If you found this video helpful, please leave a quick thumbs up. That gives me feedback that this is something you might enjoy more of, so thanks for watching and take care..
Read MoreRethinking Retirement: Advice to those thinking of retiring
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ONCE AGAIN. >> IT'S TIME FOR RETHINKING RETIREMENT WITH MARVIN MITCHELL, FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF COMPLEX RETIREMENT SOLUTIONS. HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO YOU. HAPPY HOLIDAYS THE GREAT TIME OF YEAR. MANY OF OUR VIEWERS SPENDING MORE TIME WITH THEIR FAMILIES THINKING ABOUT THOSE MEMORIES AND AND WANTING TO SPEND MORE TIME AND WONDERING, WELL, MAYBE I NEED TO SPEND EVEN MORE TIME WITH MY FAMILY. THAT'S GOOD. THINKING ABOUT RETIREMENT. WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE SOMEBODY ON MAKING THAT DECISION AT THE RIGHT TIME TO RETIRE >> YEAH, I MEAN, YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. I MEAN, WHEN YOU SPEND TIME WITH THE FAMILY, YOU START TO REALIZE, MAN, I WISH I HAD MORE THAT I WAS KIND OF LIKE WHAT HAPPENED WHEN PEOPLE WERE FORCED TO STAY HOME AND THEN IT WAS TIME TO GO BACK TO WORK. AND A LOT OF PEOPLE WAS LIKE A KIND OF LIKE STAYING HOME. SO A LOT OF PEOPLE LEAVE QUIT THEIR JOBS OR SOME PEOPLE BECAME ENTREPRENEURS. WELL, IT'S KIND OF THE SAME THING WITH RETIREMENT.
SO I WOULD SAY BEFORE YOU DO SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU DO WITH A PLAN. NOW, ONE OF THINGS THAT YOU NEED TO DO IS THAT I WILL RECOMMEND YOU GET AN INCOME PLAN. THAT INCOME PLAN IS GOING TO HELP YOU WITH 3 AREAS. NUMBER ONE, WHEN YOU RETIRE, YOU WANT TO RETIRE? WITH COMFORT. OKAY. THAT MEANS YOU WANT TO KNOW. DID YOU CAN STAY RETIRE WITH DIGNITY AND NOT BE FORCED TO GO BACK TO WORK WHEN YOU REALLY DON'T WANT TO. WE ALSO WANT YOU TO BE CONFIDENT AND CONFIDENT COMES BY KEVIN CLARITY, CLARITY REALLY ONLY COMES BY HAVING A PLAN AND YOU ALSO WANT TO HAVE CONTROL OVER YOUR RETIREMENT, WHICH MEANS YOU DON'T NEED A DICTATOR. AS A FINANCIAL ADVISOR, YOU REALLY NEED SOMEBODY IS GOING TO TAKE ABOUT A HAND HEMP. YOU HAVE MAKE THOSE DECISIONS AND NOT FORCE ANYTHING UP ON YOU. SO FIRST THING I WOULD TELL US TO HAVE A GOOD PLAN, RIGHT? AND PART OF THAT PLAN INCLUDES HEALTH INSURANCE, WHICH IS SO CRITICAL IN RETIREMENT.
MANY PEOPLE DON'T RETIRE BECAUSE THEY THINK THEY HAVE TO BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO PAY A LOT FOR HEALTH INSURANCE. FIRST OFF, THERE ARE WAYS TO MINIMIZE OR HEALTH INSURANCE. IN FACT, WE HAVE AN ENTIRE DIVISION THAT HELPS YOU OUT WITH YOUR HEALTH CARE IN OUR COMPANY, MEDICARE, ALL OF THOSE THINGS, BUT ALSO PUT INTO PERSPECTIVE. LET'S SAY YOU HAVE A MILLION DOLLARS AND YOU HAVE ENOUGH TO RETIRE ON. YOU DON'T RETIRE BECAUSE OF HEALTH CARE. IF YOU DO THE MATH SAID ONLY COST YOU 27,000 OVER THE NEXT 5 YEARS. IS PAID $27,000 OUT OF A MILLION DOLLAR PORTFOLIO. KEEPING YOU FROM RETIRE AND SPEND TIME WITH THE FAMILY. SOMETIMES IT MAKES SENSE JUST TO PAY FOR IT RIGHT. YOUR TIME IS WORTH MUCH MORE THAN $20,000. THINK OF IT THAT WAY.
SO DON'T LET THAT STOP YOU FROM RETIRE. AND IF YOU FEEL THAT IS THE RIGHT TIME TO RETIRE, RIGHT? AND YOU CAN GET MUCH MORE DETAILED INFORMATION FOR FREE OR FROM MARTIN'S BOOK. YEAH. MY BOOK RETIRE EARLY. THE 9 CRITICAL DECISIONS WILL RETIRE BEFORE 65 SOME OF THOSE THINGS. WHEN SHOULD I RETIRE? SHOULD I PAY OFF MY HOUSE? WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH MY 4 O ONE K SHOULD HAVE A STATE PLAN TO AVOID PROBATE. ALL OF THOSE QUESTIONS ARE ANSWERED IN MY BOOK. RETIRE EARLY. DO YOURSELF AN EARLY EARLY HOLIDAY. GIVE YOURSELF A HOLIDAY GIFT AND GET THIS BOOK RETIRE EARLY TONIGHT, CRITICAL DECISIONS BY GOING TO RETHINK IN RETIREMENT DOT NET AND GET GET MORE THAN ONE.
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Read MoreTwo-Pot Retirement System Explained by Old Mutual Corporate
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Very few South Africans reach the end of their working careers with
enough money saved for their retirement. To help retirement fund members preserve funds for their
retirement, National Treasury has proposed a new two-pot system for retirement funds. Your future
retirement fund contributions will be allocated to two components. One is a savings component, the
other is a retirement component. For this example, we'll use the pots to illustrate the concepts.
When the two-pot reforms go into effect, your retirement fund will value
your existing retirement savings, and will allocate this amount to its own pot,
which the industry calls the vested component. The current rules will still apply to your existing
retirement savings. This money will be subject to the existing rights of access and existing
withdrawal tax tables. Then, 10% of this pot, up to a maximum of R30,000 will be allocated
to your savings pot and will be available for you to withdraw.
Going forward, 1/3 of your future
retirement contributions will go into the savings pot. This pot is designed to be your lump sum at
retirement. However, in the case of an emergency, you'll be able to withdraw the money from
your savings pot once every tax year. This amount will be taxed to your marginal tax rate.
Remember, any money withdrawn from your savings component before retirement will reduce your lump
sum at retirement. The minimum withdrawal amount will be R2 000. The remaining two thirds of your
future retirement contributions will be allocated to the retirement pot.
To preserve your savings,
you won't be allowed to access this money until you retire. At your retirement, you'll have to
use it to buy a pension or annuity. The aim of this is to provide you with an income during your
retirement years. There are a few important things to note. The two-pot retirement system is to
be implemented on the 1st of September 2024. This will only affect your future retirement
contributions from this date. If enacted, the two-pot system will affect pension funds,
provident funds, retirement annuity funds, and preservation funds. Your existing retirement
savings will be subject to the old rules, so there's no need to panic. Provident fund members
over 55 will have the option to stay and continue contributing to all their retirement savings
to their existing provident pot. The two-pot system will give retirement fund members access
to a portion of their savings in an emergency. This savings component will also be available as
a lump sum payment at retirement if you don't make withdrawals.
At the same time, the majority
of your time and savings will be preserved to provide you with an income during your retirement.
If you have any questions about these proposals, and how they might affect you or your retirement
fund, please reach out to Old Mutual.
Retirement Planning – we’re here to help
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