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Retire With Style Podcast
The purpose of Retire With Style is to help you discover the retirement income plan that is right for you. The first step is to discover your retirement income personality. Your hosts Wade Pfau, PhD, CFA, RICP and Alex Murguia, PhD walk you through creating and implementing a retirement plan that will help you reach your goals, and that you’ll be able to stick with. Start by going to risaprofile.com/style and sign up to take the industry’s first financial personality tool for retirement planning.
Episode 70: Income Annuities: Your New Standard Pension Plans
In this week's episode, Wade and Alex break down the basic Single Premium Immediate Annuities (SPIA) and Deferred Immediate Annuities (DIA) and describe how these traditional annuities can function as a personal pension for your essential expenses in...
Episode 69: RISA® in Action: How do our advisors use the RISA® to navigate personalized retirement income plans.
We kick off our “RISA® in Action” arc with our very own advisors, Jason Rizkallah, CFP®, RICP® and Stephan Pomanti, CFP®, RICP®. Coming fresh off our Retirement Income Challenge for Consumers where our participants completed over 300 RISAs, we discus...
Episode 68: Annuities as a viable source of protected income
In this episode, Wade and Alex break out the “A” word and discuss the many definitional concepts of annuities. We tackle some common misconceptions surrounding how they work (including some that many advisors don't realize exist). We further discuss ...
Episode 67:The Future of Protected Income Summit. A review with Wade, Jason, and Alex.
If you want to get a sense of what’s developing in the world of retirement income, then you’ll want to check out our bonus episode. The Alliance for Lifetime Income, the leading consumer advocacy group for protected lifetime income held a summit on t...
Episode 66: Social Security and how the government is set up to help you. The ultimate insider’s perspective.
Wade and Alex invite Jason Fichtner, former Social Security Administration Chief Economist, to look behind the curtains to see the steps the government is making to help you lead a dignified retirement. We discuss how steps were taken to re-frame you...
Episode 65: The Ins, Outs, and everything in between of Social Security Claiming Strategies with Mary Beth Franklin
In this episode, we welcome Mary Beth Franklin and discuss the various intricacies of social security claiming strategies. While there are basic decision trees that most of us know about, Mary Beth goes into detail regarding more nuanced strategies t...
Episode 64: Social Security’s Future: Hint: It’s Not Going Away
A popular thought in the Zeitgeist is that it is important to claim Social Security as soon as possible because the whole system is on track to insolvency. Alex and Wade explore this issue with guest Brian Bass, MSFS, CFP®, RICP®, AEP®, CLU®, the Ma...
Episode 63 Should I Wait or Should I Go? A Look at Arguments For and Against Delaying Social Security Claiming
A topic of intense debate is about what's the best age to claim Social Security. Should people do it as soon as possible after reaching age 62, or wait until they get closer to 70? Alex and Wade will look at arguments on both sides of the debate and ...
Episode 62: The Six Steps for Effective Social Security Claiming
Households struggle with making right the Social Security claiming decisions. But the differences between good and bad decisions can add up to more than $100,000 in missed benefits over the lifetime of the household. To help everyone be on the right ...
Episode 61: How SHOULD You Think About Your Investment Portfolio?
Now that Wade, Alex, and Bob have talked (extensively) about how not to invest, we want to be a little more upbeat. On this week's episode, we want to take a closer look at some of the things that do work - and what that tells you about how to constr...