Retirement income planning tutorial for Advisors In this retirement income planning tutorial, Advisors are working through a Case Study. Together, we are learning how to build a plan from scratch, create multiple what-if scenarios, and then discussing how to review...
Learn about retirement and decumulation strategies designed to optimize your clients’ financial future as they transition into or continue through retirement.
Why is financial planning software effective?
What makes retirement projections software good? If you are like me, when you evaluate new software you are looking for specific features. You wonder: “How will this software take care of “X”? Or, “Can it help me with “Y”.
Engage Clients in Financial Planning: Start with a Vision
As a Financial Advisor or Planner, you already know how challenging it can be to get your existing and prospective clients engaged with the financial planning process. What we have found, in practice, is that starting with creating a retirement vision first can make...
Personalized Decumulation Strategies for Greater Value
When should your clients start taking CPP/QPP and OAS? Which accounts should they first draw from when they retire? Today we are going to explore personalized decumulation strategies. The answer is, it depends As a Financial Planner, you already know there are no...
4 Ways to Maximize Clients’ Money in Retirement
During the recording of this financial planning session, you will learn how to easily model 4 planning strategies that can have a major impact on your clients’ lives and retirement plans. You will see how addressing complex financial planning questions can actually be...
7 Ways Advisors Engage Retirees in Financial Planning
As a Financial Advisor or Planner, you likely already know how challenging it can be to get some of your Advisory clients or prospects on board with the financial planning process. For Retirees, or those approaching retirement, it's even more important to break...
5 Ways to Engage Young Adults in Financial Planning
As an experienced Financial Advisor, Planner, or Investment Manager, you likely already know how important it is to start planning early for a successful financial future. Unfortunately, many young adults are not in that head space just yet and wind up missing out on...
Does Early RRIF Withdraw Benefit Canadian Retirees?
Retirement income planning research As Canadian retirees approach age 72 and have investments in a Registered Retirement Income Fund (RRIF), they are required to withdraw a minimum amount each year. However, some retirees may consider withdrawing more than the minimum...
Transparent retirement planning recommendations
As a Financial Advisor, you already know that your clients continue to demand more value in each and every client meeting. To start, they want transparent retirement planning. They want to understand where the numbers are coming from. To facilitate this, Advisors rely...
Avoid Asset Rollover Pitfalls in Survivor Situations
If you expect that one spouse will outlive the other in your clients' retirement projections, it is useful to illustrate the surviving spouse's financial situation after the death of their spouse. We call this a Surviving Spouse Scenario in Snap Projections. Here's a...
Automated Pension Income Splitting for Retirement
What is pension income splitting? Pension income splitting is an important mechanism, and should be a feature in any Canadian financial planning software, that allows to transfer the taxable eligible pension income from one spouse to another for the purpose of...
Retirement Income Planning Advice
Savvy financial advisors know that the key ingredient of their success is knowing what their clients and prospects truly want. This makes perfect sense because if you know what is on your prospect's mind, it is much easier to start a conversation with her, build trust...