A Pile of Accounts Is Not a Plan

Most people we meet have been diligent savers. They have a 401(k) here, an old IRA there, a bank account, maybe some company stock. What they often do not have is a plan that ties it all together.

You are not alone in this. Surveys show that nearly 9 in 10 people near retirement think about their retirement income regularly, but only about half have a current, written plan for it.

A pile of accounts answers the question “How much do I have?” A plan answers the harder questions: How much can I safely spend? In what order should I draw from these accounts? What happens in a bad market year?

You do not have to solve all of that today. A good first step is free: the SEC’s Investor.gov (https://www.investor.gov) has plain, unbiased calculators, and your Social Security estimate lives at https://www.ssa.gov.

Those numbers become the raw material for a real plan.

Your trusted advisor can take those pieces and turn them into something you can actually follow, and adjust as life changes. If you would like a second set of eyes on what you have built, just reply to this email.

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