The Retirement Café

In my last post, Spending Typically Declines as We Age , I reviewed the results of research by David Blanchett ( PDF ) and Sudipto Banerjee ...

The Retirement Income Industry Association® (RIIA) today announced that Financial Planner Dirk Cotton , author of Th e Retirement Café blog ...

The most common assumption of retirement spending strategies is that real (inflation-adjusted) spending from savings will be flat throughout...

The following post originally appeared on Advisor Perspectives , a blog for financial planners, in April 2015. Perhaps no other retirement...

We could easily name ten or twelve retirement income strategies but several of them are really just variations on a theme. When you're t...

One of the retirement income strategies that I didn't discuss in my last post is Time Segmentation (TS). (See Unraveling Retirement Str...

In Pure and Mixed Strategies , I noted that we can make life simpler for retirees by winnowing out dominated strategies and strategies that ...

Retirement researchers Michael Kitces and Wade Pfau published papers on glide paths in the Journal of Financial Planning in 2014 and 2015, ...

In a few recent posts, I suggested how game theory might be used to gain a different perspective on the Social Security claiming decision ( ...

Sharp-eyed readers will notice that I have tweaked my blog format to include some of my favorite posts from other retirement blogs. Retireme...