In today's complex financial landscape with so many variables, assumptions, and unknowns, it’s easy to overwhelm your clients with how you prepare and present your recommendations. This is where The ...

Retirement bucket strategies have recently been developed with an eye toward connecting portfolio allocations to specific expenditures. These strategies commonly call for tying expenses a retiree ...

The practical bottom-line for the financial profession is in its ability to help guide their clients’ financial future to improve the lives and state of mind of their clients. That is going to require ...

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Rebekah Barsch is executive officer and vice president of Planning and Sales at Northwestern Mutual. Do you have a retirement bucket list? Most people have dreamed about what they’d want to do in ...

The reason you may want to use a bucket strategy is not because it has an edge in delivering higher withdrawals, but because it can provide emotional comfort. In our last column, we highlighted that ...