Retirement planning, in a financial context, refers to the allocation of finances for retirement. This normally means the setting aside of money or other assets to obtain a steady income at retirement. The goal of retirement planning is to achieve financial independence, so that the need to be gainfully employed is optional rather than a necessity.

The process of retirement planning aims to:

(1) assess readiness-to-retire given a desired retirement age and lifestyle, i.e. do you have sufficient money to retire; and

(2) to identify actions to improve readiness-to-retire.

Obtaining a financial plan

In recent years, producers such as a financial planner or financial adviser have been available to help clients develop retirement plans, where compensation is either fee-based or commissioned contingent on product sale. Such arrangement is sometimes viewed as conflicting to a consumer's interest to have advice rendered without bias or at cost that justifies value. Consumers can now elect a do it yourself (DIY) approach, given the advent of a large, ever growing body of resources. For example, retirement web-tools in the form of simple calculator, mathematical model or decision support system have appeared with greater frequency. A web-based tool that allows client to fully plan, without human intervention, might be considered a producer. A key motivation beyond the DIY trend is based on many of the same arguments of Lean manufacturing process, a constructive alteration of the relationship between producer and consumer.

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What is the right time to start 'Retirement Planning' ?
Q. When should one start planning for retirement years and what is the best retirement plan?
Asked by Riggy - Thu May 14 14:57:56 2009 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Start as soon as you start your job. Find out what kind of retirement plans the employer offers. The three major elements of your retirement portfolio are benefits from pensions, savings and investments, and Social Security benefits. Each year the Social Security Administration sends you your personal Social Security Statement, which gives you an estimate of the monthly benefit amounts you and your family may qualify for now and in the future. Once you ve reviewed your Statement, you may want to explore a variety of retirement scenarios using a range of assumptions about your future earnings or when you stop working.
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How to transfer the US-based 401k account balance to a 2a or 3a retirement planning account in Switzerland?
Q. The company I worked for in the U.S. is closing down the 401k plan. I moved back to Switzerland and would like to transfer the funds from this US-based 401k account back to a retirement planning account (so called 2a or 3a) without incurring taxes. how do i do this?
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A. You cannot. That 401(k) is pretax money and sooner or later you will have to pay U.S. income tax on it.
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What is a reasonably conservative real % yield on investment capital to use for retirement planning purposes?
Q. Real % yield is net of inflation. So a 5% total yield with 3% inflation would be a 2% real % yield.
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A. With judicious investments in equities, you should expect long term returns of 8% conservatively. That is based on historical trends. Many good mutual funds have returned better than that. Some as much as 16% for long periods of time. But I doubt that in the future that will be the case unless one looks to overseas and developing markets. Some of those however can hardly be considered conservative. A mixed portfolio of 30-40% debt and 60-70% equities is considered more conservative than one of 100% equities. Interestingly enough, studies have shown that such a portfolio will outperform an all equities portfolio over a long period of time with reduced risk. That of course is all based on historical data. That data might not be… [cont.]
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    CSRS, FERS and MRT pre-retirement planning services and benefit advice. Specializes in pre-retirement planning programs for federal employees.
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    Help secure your child or grandchild's retirement thanks to this new retirement planning tool.
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    Providing UK annuity league tables and personal quotations. Detailed information about annuities.
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