In this episode of Retire with Style, Dr. Wade Pfau and Dr. Alex Murguia explore the evolving world of alternative investments and their potential role in retirement planning. They discuss the concept of “Winning the Loser’s Game”—emphasizing the value of steady, disciplined strategies over high-risk maneuvers—and examine how alternatives like cryptocurrencies, private equity, and hedge […]
In this episode of Retire with Style, hosts Alex Murguia and Wade Pfau tackle a range of financial planning questions in a lively Q&A session. They explore Social Security strategies, the role of single premium immediate annuities (SPIAs) in retirement income, and investment approaches for managing required minimum distributions (RMDs). The discussion also covers the […]
With the New Year coming up quick, we wanted to highlight some of our best episodes to round out 2023. This week we’ll be revisiting our conversation about the release of the 2nd Edition of Wade’s Retirement Planning Guidebook and how to set up the f…
With the New Year coming up quick, we wanted to highlight some of our best episodes to round out 2023. This week we’ll be revisiting our conversation with Mary Beth Franklin on Social Security claiming strategies (originally Episode 65).
We’ll be ba…
In this episode we sit down with Rebecca Meskin & Cara Reisman from Blackrock to discuss a paper we collaborated on; A reimagined approach to funding retirement income: Defining individual styles and solutions using the RISA® framework. During th…
Tax planning is the topic du jour for this week, as Wade and Alex discuss a recent article from Advisor Perspectives that Wade wrote with Joe Elsasser from Covisum. Wade describes the effective marginal tax rate approach for managing Roth conversions…
Wade and Alex discuss with Rob Cordeau, CFP®, RICP®, CHFC®, the most frequently dealt with year-end planning topics that he discusses with clients. As we near the end of year, there are various deadlines that should be addressed to help maximize your…
In today’s episode, we discuss how married couples frequently do not have the same retirement income style and how the RISA® Framework is used to identify solutions so that both individuals can feel confident with a retirement plan that satisfies bot…
On today’s episode, Alex and Wade are joined by Rob Cordeau, CFP, RICP, ChFC, who is the Managing Director of Wealth Management at McLean Asset Management. He shares insights into how Time Segmentation strategies can be implemented in practice, and h…
Critics of Time Segmentation and bucketing have questioned whether there is any there, there. A big part of this relates to how Time Segmentation methods decide when to re-fill the short-term spending buckets. In today’s episode, Wade and Alex discus…
