The Hidden Danger of the 4% Rule (And 4 Guardrails to Protect Your Wealth)

A fixed 4% withdrawal is not the only option. Guyton-Klinger guardrails set a starting paycheck, then move it on rules tied to how the portfolio does.
The Hidden Retirement Trap: How Your Spending Creates All the Risk

The order of your returns decides whether a 30-year retirement survives, not the average. Why spending, not the market, creates most of the risk.
Is Your 401(K) Default Costing You a Fortune?

If you’ve got a 401(k), chances are when you first signed up, you were just dropped into some default investment option. Easy. Automatic. No thought required. That “default” nine times out of ten? A Target Date Fund (TDF). They’re the set-it-and-forget-it solution, managing trillions of retirement dollars. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: that so-called safe […]