If You Need Cash in Retirement

 If You Need Cash in Retirement. Retirement & Financial Planning Report. FEDWEEK Reverse mortgages allow homeowners to tap home equity even if they can’t sell their home; this can supplement retirement funds.  While hopefully your plan for funding your retirement will provide what you need, you may find that you have needs for cash that […]

Retirement Portfolio Exhaustion

Retirement income, social security benefits

To Reduce the Risk of Retirement Portfolio Exhaustion, Include Home Equity as a Non-Correlated Asset in the Portfolio.  By Philip Walker; Barry H. Sacks, Ph.D., J.D.; and Stephen R. Sacks, Journal of Financial Planning: December 2021 Executive Summary Financial planners have long regarded diversification and asset allocation as essential tools for reducing portfolio risk for their clients. […]

How Much Can Retirees Spend

How Much Can Retirees Spend On March 11, 2020? It May Not Be What You Think Turbulent market volatility and declining interest rates are leaving many people wondering about the viability of their retirement plans. Given where markets are today, will you have enough to meet your retirement spending goals? Many financial planner have and […]

Retirement Options

How options for housing in retirement have evolved Don Garman, Founder and Chief Investment Officer at Mirador Capital Partners, predicts a changing financial landscape in years ahead and tells retirees that when investment returns aren’t necessarily able to ensure a comfortable existence in retirement alone, they may need other ways to supplement income. There’s one […]

Home Equity Tapping

New Figure Hire Emphasizes Retirement, ‘More Accessible’ Home Equity Tapping Figure Technologies, providers of alternative home equity tapping tools including a sale leaseback offering that is competitive with traditional reverse mortgages, announced a new hire last month that expands the company’s positioning as a vendor of tools that can help seniors in funding their retirement. […]

Reverse Mortgage Before It’s Needed

Why Open A Reverse Mortgage Before It’s Needed?  I have been preaching this sermon for years and some financial planners have started to listen. Open the Reverse Mortgage early in life and let the line of credit grow. The Elder Care publication (NAELA) wrote a front page article last spring call Long Term Care Insurance […]

HECM product

HECM Product. Product vs. Process. Written by a financial planner with nothing to gain from Reverse Mortgages. By Stephen Kelley, CSA I have said it several times and written it in dozens of places, including books, columns, radio scripts (such as they are) and workshops: A good financial plan must be both financially and emotionally sound. […]