Managing Your Financial Future with Lucia Capital Group

Should You Own More or Fewer Stocks in Retirement?

Lucia Capital Group Episode 258

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The idea that you should own fewer stocks as you get older is one of the most common rules of thumb in retirement planning. The logic says that stocks are supposedly "risky,” so as you age, you should reduce your exposure. But that simple rule may be asking the wrong question and leading to the wrong conclusion.

Think about this: Is stock exposure really the right place to start, or should the focus be on how much of your portfolio needs to be safe to support your income? Does owning fewer stocks actually reduce risk, or does it depend on when and why you might need to sell them? And if your safer assets are structured to cover your cash flow needs, does that change how much of your portfolio can remain invested for long-term growth?

Should you really own fewer stocks in retirement, or could the opposite be true under the right structure? Find out from podcast host Johnny Dean and Rick “The Professor” Plum, CFP® on this week’s episode of Managing Your Financial Future!