Advisors use retirement-income guardrails as a convenient and easy-to-understand framework to explain when a client needs to make portfolio adjustments in retirement. Withdrawal-rate guardrails are a commonly used framework, but they do not always accurately reflect a client’s dynamic income sources and actual spending behaviors. Risk-based retirement-income guardrails, on the other hand, have the same benefits of communication and clarity while also modeling a client’s retirement income sources and spending patterns more realistically. At this Kitces Monthly Webinar, join Derek Tharp, as he discusses risk-based guardrails and the impacts of the varying associated parameters.
