Retirement Advising: Accumulation and Decumulation Strategies 2024

Overview

This course offers an in-depth look at retirement needs models, their flaws, and ways to overcome associated drawbacks. You’ll explore holistic retirement planning while reviewing threats to a successful retirement. You’ll also hear about recent retirement planning changes, including the elimination of the “Stretch IRA” by the SECURE Act and the new SECURE Act 2.0 changes. We’ll address key questions to plan a comfortable retirement and discuss strategies to draw down retirement assets over an extended period.

Highlights

• The downside of traditional retirement asset accumulation strategies
• Threats to a successful retirement
• Holistic retirement planning: how personal goals integrate with tax, estate, risk, and investment management principles
• Matching investment assets with the appropriate retirement plan and distribution strategy
• Review the provisions of the SECURE Acts and how they will impact retirement planning

Prerequisites

None

Designed For

CPAs, financial advisers, attorneys and insurance professionals.

Objectives

• Determine how to make retirement planning an area of expertise in your practice
• Identify traditional retirement planning assumptions, methods, and techniques
• Identify how recent legislative changes and research findings are changing the pre- and post-retirement advice offered to clients
• Recognize withdrawal techniques that can help extend the distribution period
• Determine how to integrate a retirement plan distribution strategy with a Social Security claiming strategy

Preparation

None

Notice

This course is provided by a third-party vendor. Please note that login instructions will not be available in the ‘My Upcoming CPE’ section of the NESCPA website. Instead, the login instructions will be sent directly to you via email by the California Education Foundation (CalCPA). Upon completing the course, your hours will be recorded in the ‘My CPE Tracker’ section of the NESCPA website.