Changing Your Perception on Retirement

In this episode of Money on Tap, Seth and Ben break down seven different ways that retirement can be perceived. For many people, retirement contains visions of living somewhere where it’s always sunny and a cool 70 degrees, but the reality is a retirement in that form takes a lot of hard work and financial planning. Brayshaw Financial Group is here to help so that your dreams of a successful retirement can actually become reality.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.