Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Retirement checklist for bayarea


Sample recommendations for a retirement roadmap based on your goals and needs



  • Use life insurance to fund survivorship years

  • protect yourself from large, unexpected needs (purchase a long-term care policy)

  • consider an annuity as a conservative investment (37% of your investments for long-term savings)

  • Review your total asset allocations

  • Further analysis of your qualified retirement plans (weed out conflicting info, get a financial planner)

  • Rearrange your investments of available assets for retirement

  • put recommendations into action

Tax planning, estate plan, retire wisely in bayarea

Tax Planning (paying unnecessary tax)

  • Not claiming enough withholding W-4 allowances to get bigger tax refunds

  • Not maximizing tax deductions and itemizing them on your tax return

  • Not understanding the huge difference between tax-deferred and tax-free growth on savings

Risk Management and Insurance



  • Not funding your life insurance properly (using life ins for superior capital accumulation)

  • Not redirecting otherwise payable income tax for your life insurance

  • Not understanding safe, positive leverage to own and control assets with very little or non of your money at risk

Living Trust and 720 FICO



  • Credit and debt management: 720 FICO and paying off debt and mortgage the wrong way

  • Estate planning: having too much liability exposure and not using living trusts and life insurance

Retirement planning by choosing the right investments



  • Putting money in crawl investments: CDs and MM

  • Thinking that IRAs and 401k are the best way to save for retirement

  • Postponing qualified plan distributions until age 701/2 and taking min distributions

  • Not employing one of the greatest assets " home equity via a reverse mortgage"
motherhealth@gmail.com for more details or contact Connie Dello Buono CA Life lic 0G60621 408-854-1883