Financial Advisors don’t Understand Baby Boomers Need to Avoid Large Losses
I don’t think the message is getting through to financial planners any more than it is getting through to bay boomers. That message is Baby Boomers have to observer and respect Rule #1 - Avoid Large Losses in Retirement.
Chasing high returns by having a high proportion of your money invested in equities (risk-based assets) makes no sense when you are in retirement and especially in this market. I’m talking here only about money set aside to be your nest egg. If you have done that and have surplus money then be my guest, try and make a killing in this market using the surplus money.
Remember it is not the fact that the market is down that is the problem. It is the size of the losses you incur and the time it takes to recover those losses that will affect you directly, especially when you are not adding to your nest egg but taking from it in the form of a pension.
Many Baby Boomers have realised this and are moving their money out of risk based assets into safe assets like bonds, term deposits and cash at the bank. This would seem the logical thing to do for the immediate future. Read the rest of this entry »
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