Retirement / General

Five Common Mistakes To Avoid When Planning Your Retirement

When you’re ready to retire, one of the biggest decisions you’ll face is choosing an annuity to provide you with a regular income in retirement. Considering the unpredictability of investment markets, increased longevity and a crowded retirement product market, it’s not an easy choice. Yet the stakes are high and the consequences far-reaching.

Four rules for making your income last through retirement

Retirees who primarily rely on their living annuity investments to provide them with a steady stream of income are often haunted by the question: How do I make my income last throughout retirement?

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Why retirement fund managers cannot go gaga over crypto, and more

Retirement fund managers are unlikely to make big allocations to the current universe of crypto assets, even if the regulations were amended to allow for it. Mike Adsetts, Deputy Chief Investment Officer of Momentum Investments said that funds’ future exposures to crypto assets would likely remain small due to concerns over safe custody and volatility, among others. “You could potentially consider specific opportunities, such as an exchange traded fund linked to crypto assets and backed by a bank balance sheet, but you would struggle to class this as a conservative investment that could function as a growth vehicle in a retirement fund,” he said in a wide-ranging interview with FAnews.