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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news.

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Speaker 2: Speak to any financial advisor and they'll tell you one

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Speaker 2: of the biggest challenges they have professionally is getting clients

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Speaker 2: to actually spend their money. After decades of working and

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Speaker 2: saving and investing, making the turn to spending money can

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Speaker 2: be a challenge. I'm Barry Ritolts, and on today's edition

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Speaker 2: of At the Money, we're going to discuss spending your

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Speaker 2: mollah in retirement. To help us unpack all of this

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Speaker 2: and what it means to your retirement, let's bring in

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Speaker 2: Christine Benz. She is the director of Personal Finance and

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Speaker 2: retirement Planning at morning Star. She's published numerous books on money,

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Speaker 2: investing and retirement, most recently How to Retire Twenty Lessons

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Speaker 2: for a Happy, successful, and Wealthy Retirement. So let's start

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Speaker 2: with the basic problem. Getting those type A personalities who

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Speaker 2: are used to working and saving and working and investing

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Speaker 2: to kind of pivot to working and spending is a

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Speaker 2: big challenge. How big of an issue is this amongst

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Speaker 2: people who are looking at retirement.

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Speaker 3: It's a very big issue, and it's kind of a

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Speaker 3: difficult topic to talk about because we have a lot

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Speaker 3: of people in our society who are quite undersaved relative

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Speaker 3: to what they will need for retirement, they'll be exclusively

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Speaker 3: dependent on social Security. But there is also a segment

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Speaker 3: of our population who struggles with spending appropriately. I can't

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Speaker 3: tell you, Barry, how many times I've been out speaking

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Speaker 4: Clearly his or her eighties.

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Speaker 3: Usually his based on the composition of the audiences I

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Speaker 3: usually speak with, and he'll proudly say, I only spend

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Speaker 3: two percent of my portfolio per year, whatever the value is,

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Speaker 3: that's what I spend. And I kind of think to myself, well, gosh,

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Speaker 3: I hope that that delivers you a good quality of life.

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Speaker 3: And I also think to myself, you're probably pretty significantly

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Speaker 3: short changing yourself if you're just spending at that level.

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Speaker 3: And as you said, Barry, I hear this from financial

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Speaker 3: advisors as well, that they struggle getting their clients to

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Speaker 2: I heard a funny line from a pair of older

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Speaker 2: clients who were getting on a plane and they were

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Speaker 2: sitting in first class and they bump into friends they

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Speaker 2: know who are sitting in coach, and the conversation was

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Speaker 2: they just could imagine each other's conversation. Look at them

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Speaker 2: in the front of the plane spending their kids' inheritance,

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Speaker 2: and then the one sitting in the front of the

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Speaker 2: kids can fly first first class. It's kind of funny,

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Speaker 2: But ultimately, isn't this a psychological struggle about not just

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Speaker 2: outliving your own money. Assuming we're talking about people who

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Speaker 2: aren't going to outlive their own money, there's still this

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Speaker 2: enormous hesitancy to spend their kids inheritance or to spend

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Speaker 2: money when they've spent their whole lives. As Savers tell us.

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Speaker 3: About that exactly, it's a sense of identity. I think

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Speaker 3: that one builds as a saver and an investor that

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Speaker 3: you are someone who defers gratification. You set money aside

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Speaker 3: probably the more successful you are, you get to see

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Speaker 3: the incredible power of compounding. I think there is a

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Speaker 3: common tendency to kind of anchor on the portfolio Leo's

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Speaker 3: never want to see it go lower. It just does

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Speaker 3: lot going on psychologically, and kind of an elephant in

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Speaker 3: the room in this respect is long term care. That

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Speaker 3: people who have not purchased long term care insurance and

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Speaker 3: still have this risk of like, oh, may I have

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Speaker 2: Really really interesting. So since we're talking about long term care,

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Speaker 2: let's talk about generally putting together a personalized plan, thinking

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Speaker 2: about needs and goals, lifestyle considerations. What should someone who

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Speaker 3: Well, I would say, either get a financial advisor to

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Speaker 3: help you with this, where they're effectively disbursing a portion

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Speaker 3: of being flexible with your portfolio withdrawals, where you are

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Speaker 3: know is that people tend to spend less as they age.

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Speaker 3: So your early years of retirement should be the higher

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Speaker 4: You should give yourself permission to spend.

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Speaker 3: A little bit more early in retirement with the knowledge

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Speaker 2: So let's break those spending desires down. You mentioned travel,

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Speaker 2: like it's easy to travel in your sixties and seventies

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Speaker 2: than it is in your eighties and nineties. Hobbies legacy

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Speaker 2: philanthropy or charitable goals, to say nothing of future healthcare needs.

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Speaker 2: How should people organize their thoughts and planning for future spending.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's helpful to get very granular about

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Speaker 3: But if you have, say a big family trip planned

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Speaker 4: And the nice.

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Speaker 3: Thing about that is that, in addition to it helping

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Speaker 3: want to do. You mentioned lifetime giving, barry to family

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Speaker 3: members and charity. I have come to be a huge

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Speaker 3: and these don't need to be big ticket gifts. Smaller

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Speaker 3: wanted to live. So having that discussion with your loved

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Speaker 2: I recall reading your piece what was it in the

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Speaker 2: fall last year or maybe around the holidays? Intervevos transfers

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Speaker 2: be increasingly modern development. Like I think back twenty five

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Speaker 2: at least outside of the top one or five percent.

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Speaker 2: Now it's fairly common for the X or boomer generation

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Speaker 2: tell us about what you're seeing out in the world.

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Speaker 2: How significant has this become? Is this something around the

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Speaker 3: I don't have any data on it, Barry, but my

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Speaker 3: sense is that the movement to toward lifetime giving is

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Speaker 3: picking up steam, and not just for very wealthy people.

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Speaker 3: I think sometimes people are put off by the term

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Speaker 3: lifetime giving. It sounds very highbro, but it doesn't have

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Speaker 3: to be. It can be assistance with some of those

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Speaker 3: smaller life achievements that young people might might want to

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Speaker 3: individuals pursuing their own retirement plans to think about building

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Speaker 3: in some of those lifetime giving aspirations. And also, you know,

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Speaker 3: there are really nice tax planning mechanisms that people can

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Speaker 3: use to help them achieve achieve those things as well.

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Speaker 3: The donor advised fund for charitable gifts especially.

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Speaker 2: And why shouldn't you see family members, friends, whoever enjoy

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Speaker 2: the benefits of your largest while you're still around it

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Speaker 2: that's the last you see of it. Why not get

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Speaker 3: That is the huge side benefit of contemplating lifetime giving.

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Speaker 2: So let's talk about a little more formal type of giving.

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Speaker 2: You mentioned donor advised funds. Philanthropy when it comes to

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Speaker 2: both financial and estate planning. I'm going to say that again,

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Speaker 2: philanthropy is a big part of both retirement and estate planning.

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Speaker 2: Talk a little bit about the idea behind how families

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Speaker 2: should be thinking about managing philanthropy or donating to causes

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Speaker 2: that are near and dear to their heart.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, get some advice on the tax aspect of this.

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Speaker 3: people of varying means, and it's especially appropriate for people

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Speaker 3: who have concentrated positions in their portfolios. Off an employer

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Speaker 3: then for people who are moving up and getting into retirement,

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Speaker 3: using the charitable Qualified Charitable distribution from IRAS can be

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Speaker 3: a really nice strategy as well, where you are giving

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Speaker 3: a portion of your IRA once you pass age seventy

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Speaker 3: and a half to charity. And we've seen a little

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Speaker 3: inflation adjustment in the amount that you can give, but

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Speaker 3: it's now over one hundred thousand dollars per year. It's

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Speaker 3: a way to reduce the tax burden associated.

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Speaker 4: With that I RaSE.

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Speaker 3: So that's another strategy to consider. I just wish it

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Speaker 3: get a tax break and do some charitable giving.

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Speaker 2: So we're talking about spending in retirement, but we have

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Speaker 2: yet to talk about drawing down portfolios. Bill Sharp, Nobel

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Speaker 2: modern portfolio theory and understanding asset allocation, has called this

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Speaker 2: the thornious problem in all of finance. Why is figuring

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Speaker 3: The key issue is that you're dealing with a bunch

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Speaker 4: I won't run out.

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Speaker 3: But I do think that kind of one and done

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Speaker 2: It's lumpier, so you have a sequence of return problem

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Speaker 2: So how often should retirees be reviewing their holdings? How

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Speaker 3: So I'm not sure how to answer that question, Barry, And.

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Speaker 2: It came from your article about your parents helping you

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Speaker 3: The term spending I think is super loaded. When we

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Speaker 2: So to wrap up, everybody needs to plan for retirement,

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Speaker 2: we really need to think about the prior standard of

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Speaker 2: whether it's family members or charity, while you're still alive

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