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Retirement is no longer just a vibrator, garden, grandchildren, or afternoon at the golf course.
Instead, it develops from what many consider a traditional retirement Something more dynamicAnd Andy Smith, Executive Director of Financial Planning at Edelman’s Financial Motors, said.
Smith said in a recent episode of Decoding podcast retirement (See the video above or listen below). “There is no correct way to retire.”
Historically, many saw retirement as time to focus on relaxation and family. But this vision changes.
Smith said: “Nearly four in 10 Americans, about 39 % of the respondents, said they wanted this adventurous retirement,” said Smith. Daily wealth report in America. “42 % of the respondents said they want to stay active. There is this increasing number who think about or even imagine this simple or even Bedouin style.”
This shift requires both retirees and consultants to rethink how they planning income and expenses. Smith said that instead of moving linear retirement once, planning needs to calculate whether retirement is revealed at one time or in stages.
Will there be part -time work, consulting or income from travel or passion projects? How many times do you travel, and during any part of the year? These questions not only affect your budget, but how your money is withdrawn.
Previously, the traditional approach was to estimate a retirement nest egg, adaptation to inflation and taxes, and decrease steadily. But this approach gives the field to a fragmented plan.
“How will the three years look at the first five? What about the three to the next five?” He asked. “If people can see how this is evident over time, they can feel much more comfortable about spending different dollars in different ways.”
Smith pointed out that one of the challenges begins with mere retirement: determining how to withdraw from a combination of traditional Roth Iras, 401 (K), HSAS, brokerage accounts, and social security – without paying unnecessary taxes.
Smith said the key is to have a comprehensive financial plan. “You have to know what you have and how much you have before you can build this type of road map.”
This means understanding your full financial image, including your income sources, expected benefits, expenses, and how to organize your assets through the types of accounts. Without this basis, it is impossible to build an effective and effective tax withdrawal strategy.
Early retirement, before the start of social security or retirement income, you may find yourself in an unusually low tax chip. “This may be the least segment you were in your entire life,” Smith said.
This may make a smart time to extract from the traditional Iras or 401 (K) before reaching the minimum required of the distribution (RMD), allowing you to “fill” low tax cuts and avoid the higher taxes later.
Once the guaranteed income begins, your strategy may change. The exploitation of brokerage accounts can be more efficient because long -term capital gains are often imposed by 15 % or even 0 % for low papers. For 2024, Smith noticed that individual wives earn less than $ 48,000, and couples who get less than $ 96,000 may qualify for 0 % capital profit.
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Creating a tax with a tax withdrawal plan is one part of the retirement equation. The choice of the appropriate income strategy, whether it is 4 %, planning, pensions, or hybrid approaches, is crucial.
This is where professional assistance comes.
“I think it is necessary for people to think about working with a professional,” Smith said. “This is no longer an investment management game anymore. This is a comprehensive financial planning, because if it has a dollar sign, this will be important to you to try to know that.”
Smith encouraged retirees to ask the correct questions when choosing a financial advisor:
“Are you credit?”
“How much will it cost, total?”
“What happens to me if something happens to you?”
Ultimately, the goal is to convert your life savings into a trusted taxproof input flow. “When you retire, you have this wealth that you spent in a life building,” Smith said. “Now is your job not to continue to provide it, but to find out: How can I draw this down?
Smith thought about how he helped his unexpected way of emergency medicine in the wild to financial planning to learn the main lessons.
“There was a time in my life when I was seriously thinking about becoming a mountain guide,” he said.
This training was strict, in the morning in the laboratory and afternoon in the gradual field work. But Smith said that he learned “to plan the worst, hope for the best, and do not disappoint your averages.”
This philosophy carries pension planning.
“We were great in planning your work and making your plan,” Smith said. “This is not a kind of plans that are widely assigned.
More importantly, he continued, “Not only builds the plan – tested it, because what looks good on paper, what looks good in the semester does not always work on the side of the mountain when 10 degrees are less than zero.”
