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Retirement Planning Does Not Stop When You Retire

Retirement planning does not stop when you retire. Reaching your target "number" during your working years is an important part of the retirement planning process, but there are other considerations: staying on track with your goals after you retire. Setting goals, creating an action plan to achieve them, and reviewing both regularly throughout retirement can help keep your finances on solid ground.

Why Assess Your Financial Needs After Retirement?

Your financial picture changes with any life transition, and retirement is no different. Your planning may indicate that your income and expenses are behaving as expected, but when you retire from all work—having left your business or employment—you have simply begun another phase: putting your retirement plan into action.

This means you will face new financial issues, such as managing required minimum distributions from tax-advantaged retirement accounts and navigating Medicare, among others. Add market volatility, Social Security planning, and inflation, and you have a complex picture. You will therefore want to make sure your budget has some breathing room.

Remember that you have shifted from SAVING to SPENDING.

Retirement can bring uncertainty if you have not taken steps to plan for it properly. If you are retired or about to retire, it is important to keep your goals and your plan for achieving them clearly in sight.

The most important step a retiree or someone approaching retirement can take is to learn about the complexities of creating a concise financial plan.

An advisor can guide you through the process if you are unsure where to begin.