Impacts of Long-Term Investment in High Interest Rate Environments

Unsure of the best way to save for retirement during your working years? There’s no right answer, but having a strategy and knowing of the available saving vehicles doesn’t hurt. 


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4 Smart Retirement Decisions During Your Working Years

Women tend to live longer and therefore need to prepare more for retirement. And, with most couples, women aren’t very involved in retirement planning. 


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5 Challenges Women Face in Retirement

Early in our careers, we think about retirement in terms of assets, but as we get closer to actually retiring, it’s important to shift and focus on income. Why? Assets run out. Lifetime income doesn’t.


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Planning for Retirement with Income and Assets

Household spending generally drops at retirement and then continues to decline throughout retirement. Here’s how people’s spending changes the most and how it can effect your saving plan. 

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How Your Spending Changes in Retirement

Higher life expectancies mean longer retirements. It’s important to consider these tools and strategies to ensure that you don’t outlive your retirement savings.

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Smart Planning for a Long Retirement

Understanding your current habits can give you insight into your healthy life in retirement. These calculators can help you project what you can do now to ensure a comfortable retirement later. 

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Tools to Estimate Your Longevity

Retirement today isn’t what it used to be. A new retirement landscape demands a fresh approach to thinking about and planning for retirement. 


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3 Retirement Questions You'll Need to Address

Figure out if you've saved enough to support your retirement with Blueprint Income's 'Can I Retire' tool.

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Can I Retire?

The recent bull market has been an attractive place for investors looking to generate sizable returns on their investment. Ongoing speculation of a potential market downturn in 2018 is now leaving investors with the challenge of finding a way to protect their recent gains.  

Taking Gains off the Table

Living to 100: Financial Security Implications

Bonds and income annuities have unique features that make them important components of your retirement portfolio. Understanding the role each plays in preparing for retirement can help you optimize the conservative, or safe, portion of your portfolio.

Comparing Bonds and Income Annuities for Retirement

Planning for your retirement can be broken down into three primary objectives: liquidity, growth, and income. There are different financial products to use to meet each of those needs.

Finding the Right Financial Product for Your Retirement Objectives

Unforeseen healthcare costs are commonly overlooked in retirement planning. Here’s how you can anticipate these expenses. 


Managing Healthcare Costs in Retirement

The rise of the 401(k) and the corresponding decline of defined benefit pension plans upended the three-legged stool model for retirement savings, leading to retirement insecurity. Blueprint Income is working to restore the broken leg of the stool by offering easy access to compare and purchase annuities.

How to Restore the Three-Legged Retirement Stool

We aren’t fortune tellers, but with good data we can make predictions for the future. Here we answer the question “how long will I live?” by analyzing data.

How Long Will I Live?

After working and saving for so many years, it’s finally time to retire. Here’s a quick to-do list to make sure you’ve done everything to prepare.


How You Can Prepare for Retirement During Your 70s

With retirement approaching, reviewing your goals will ensure that you are on track for retirement. Here’s a quick checklist of the what you should be doing to prepare during your 60s.

Staying on Track for Retirement in Your 60s

The average human lifespan is increasing, and with that retirement is too. It’s important to consider these three questions so you don’t outlive your savings during retirement. 

Announcing Our Series on Longevity

People tend to think of technology as an exclusively millennial playing field. But don’t be fooled, there’s plenty of simple tech tools available to enhance how you manage your personal finances, particularly for retirement.

Using Technology to Improve Your Retirement

Taxation has a large impact on your retirement preparedness. Developing a plan to handle the differing rules and regulations on various types of retirement income is an important step to effectively plan for retirement. This article provides an overview of taxation on retirement income and links to resources that will help you understand taxes in retirement and make the decisions that are right for you.

Taxes in Retirement

The habits that help us build our retirement nest-egg also prevent us from spending as much as we can in retirement. Annuities can help solve this challenge of underconsumption in retirement. 


Annuities Can Solve the Retirement Spending Dilemma

Utilizing asset-based tools to save for retirement is a great supplement to income annuities. Find out the four ways you can accumulate additional assets. 

Non-Guaranteed Retirement Income Strategies

The Retirement Enhancement and Savings Act of 2018 (RESA) may finally encourage retirement plan sponsors to add annuities to their 401(k) plans. Certain provisions may promote retirement savings by encouraging annuitizations among plan participants.


Can the Retirement Enhancement Savings Act (RESA) Encourage Companies to Get on the Annuity Bandwagon?

401(k)s have become the predominant way to prepare for retirement, which leaves retirement savings exposed to market volatility. As a result, we are more sensitive to changes and drops in the markets. Knowing how stock market drops affect your retirement means it's important to protect your investments from movements in the market. 

How Stock Market Drops Affect Your Retirement

History of Retirement (& Future Outlook)

Social Security, has been providing Americans with guaranteed income throughout retirement for years. Here’s how the program works and when you can claim your Social Security benefits.

Financial Products for Longevity: Social Security

It’s just as important to have a plan for spending money as it is for saving it. Here’s what you need to know. 


Utilizing a Retirement Decumulation Strategy

Retirement is a time for you to live life to the fullest. We created a quick checklist of what you can do to stay ahead of your health and saving to-dos. 

The 5 Things to Add to Your Longevity Action Plan

The average human lifespan is increasing, but what does that really mean? We’ve compiled a list of the most significant facts on longevity. 

The Data on Longer Lives

Research suggests that there is a relationship between parent and offspring longevity. Environmental factors play a role as well.

Do Your Family Genes Impact Longevity?

Preparing for retirement can be challenging but new technology is making it easier to prepare, plan and manage retirement. Using technology can lower fees, provide better education and access to new opportunities

Use Technology to Address These 3 Retirement Challenges

As the average lifespan increases, understanding human longevity is essential. These companies are focusing on your personal future and what longevity means in the long run. 

3 Companies Revolutionizing Longevity Research

Maintaining a healthy lifestyle can help you enjoy your retirement. Here’s what you can do to stay on track. 

4 Ways to Live Longer

The 4% rule is a general rule of thumb to guide how much you can withdraw from your investments. Here’s how it works.

The 4% Rule

When it comes to the fountain of longevity, the question remains: to drink or not to drink? The net result? It may surprise you.

Longevity: To Drink or Not to Drink?

The most prevalent retirement options today present a great risk: you could outlive them. Here we present five retirement options you can't outlive.

Retirement Options To Not Outlive Your Retirement Savings

As you get closer to retirement and continue working towards your saving goals, it’s important to incorporate a plan for your retirement spending. Here’s how you can start thinking about it. 


Staying on Track for Retirement in Your 50s

Forty years ago, living until 100 was extremely unlikely. Thanks to new research, here’s how the human lifespan will continue increasing. 

Will We All Live to Be 100?

Getting ahead of retirement planning can help you achieve your goals sooner. Our retirement planning tips for millennials give quick and easy suggestions for people in their 20s and 30s. One thing to be most aware of: retirement is more complicated without a pension.
