With The Stock Market Crash Can You Still Retire As Planned?
In the past few years, the value of U.S. retirement plans have lost almost 2 trillion dollars. So, if you are betting on your 403 b retirement plan and/or alternative retirement plan to support you throughout your retirement years, you should start to pay attention to your retirement plan statements.
Most investors, after they’ve chosen the initial investments for their retirement portfolio, rarely take another look at it. To have the best chance of actually having a retirement portfolio that will support you once you retire, you have to manage it.
The first task that you have to tackle as you start to manage your portfolio, is to assess its current value. In many cases you will discover that the investments that you originally opened your accounts with are no longer the ideal assets that they seemed when you chose them. The [calculations
When you have calculated the present value of your portfolio, contingent on how long you have until retirement, you may have to reevaluate your retirement choices.
If you’re fortunate, your portfolio will have out-performed your income projections. In this case, you won’t have to modify your retirement plans much, if at all. If, however, like most people, your portfolio has under-performed your income projections, you have some hard decisions to make.
Typically, the choices you have will fall into one of three options. 1) You can decide to step-up the amount of money that you are currently amassing into your account in order to bring it up to the amount that you’ve projected its value to be at this point. 2) You can lower your expectations of the retirement lifestyle that you had imagined to match your portfolio’s new projected future value based on it’s value today.
And the last option, and one that many near retirement age are looking at is either put off their retirement for a few years to build up their retirement nest or to plan on working part time once they do retire, to avoid lessening their standard of living.
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