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Will You Run Out of Money in Retirement? The Right Income Plan Can Help

One of the most persistent analogies I have heard in my career as a financial adviser is the story of climbing and descending Mount Everest.  As the story goes, more climbers perish on the way down the mountain than do climbing up it.  We then equate our clients’ wealth journey with that of climbing Mount Everest – spending lots of time and effort to get to the summit of peak financial wealth (i.e., retirement) only to be left with the question, “How am I to descend the mountain safely?”

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