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The Globe and Mail Brenda Bouw Published April 9, 2021
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Investors are told throughout the course of their lives to spend less and save more if they want a comfortable retirement. For some, those frugal habits can be hard to break once they stop working – even if they’ve saved more than they could hope to spend for the rest of their lives.
Case in point: Recent research from U.S. asset-management giant T. Rowe Price shows many retirees are focused on asset preservation.
“Conventional retirement income planning assumes that retirees want to maintain a certain standard of living or a certain level of spending and attempt to generate enough income to support that spending level,” the report says. “But the data suggest that the opposite might be true. People are flexible about their spending and adjust it to match their income so that they can avoid drawing down their assets.”
The Globe and Mail Published February 19, 2021
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Bernadette’s life has changed in a heartbeat, leaving her uncertain about where she stands financially. “As my husband passed away suddenly last year at age 59, I probably could use some advice as to how best to plan my future,” Bernadette writes in an e-mail. She is age 63 and earns $64,000 a year working in the travel industry. She gets $490 a month from the Canada Pension Plan survivor’s benefit. Her two children, who are in their early 20s and still living at home, give her money each month for groceries.
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How much should Lucy and Lance save to live comfortably and pay for care in later life? Published January 1, 2021
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Lucy and Lance have substantial savings, a mortgage-free house in the Toronto area and no children. With most of their net worth tied up in their $2-million house, and no defined-benefit pensions, they wonder how much of their savings they’ll need to live comfortably and perhaps pay for nursing home care when they are old. The rest they want to give to charity now while they are living rather than later in their wills.