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How to help clients plan for retirement

  • Describe how an adviser should treat a client 20 years away from retirement
  • List the most important investments a client should have in this age bracket
  • Describe the big questions a client needs to ask herself as she considers retirement
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Investing for retirement
How advisers can help clients prepare for later life
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Planning for your client's retirement is one of the most important parts of a financial adviser's work.

But not everyone gets it right, and by the time people reach their forties, they may be asking themselves if they are on track for a comfortable retirement.

Many advisers will need to tweak their client's portfolio to make sure they are on track, and a moot point is how much of their investment will be in equities, either directly, or through pooled funds.

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Please answer the six multiple choice questions below in order to bank your CPD. Multiple attempts are available until all questions are correctly answered.

  1. Which of the following is NOT at the top of the list of concerns for people twenty years away from retirement?

  2. Which of the following to advisers NOT need to take account of when considering their clients are twenty years away from retirement?

  3. People in their forties should steer clear of equities, true or false?

  4. What is the most important thing for clients, ultimately?

  5. Which is a greater concern, volatility or inflation, over the long term?

  6. What is the big picture thinking a client should do about her retirement?

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  • Describe how an adviser should treat a client 20 years away from retirement
  • List the most important investments a client should have in this age bracket
  • Describe the big questions a client needs to ask herself as she considers retirement

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