12 Biggest Pitfals in Retirement Planning

On today's episode of Money On Tap: the Olympics in the news and a discussion on 12 biggest pitfalls in retirement planning(Longevity risk, interest rate risk, inflationary risk, adult children, divorce, elder fraud, tax rate risk in retirement, social security income risk, pension risk,withdrawal risk, health risk, sequence of returns)Why doesn't inflation feel like the official 3%?Because inflation is the rate at which prices rise, while affordability is the level of prices you have to live with — and that level never resets. Retirees also buy a different basket than the CPI emphasizes: shelter costs, insurance, property taxes, healthcare, prescriptions, food, and fuel, several of which run far hotter than headline inflation. Oil compounds it, touching every leg of the delivery chain. A resilient retirement plan stress-tests income needs well above the Fed's target and fights back with pricing-power equities, reasonable bond yields, guaranteed lifetime income for core expenses, and tax mitigation that lets you keep more of every distribution.