Guest(s): Paula McMillan, CPA/PFS

Category: Technical

In this episode, Paula McMillan, CPA/PFS gives an overview of the current environment that your clients are face as they approach retirement age, including the obstacles and your role as their CPA adviser in helping them overcome them. She answers the questions:

What’s the one thing that matters most in retirement planning?
What trends in the retirement and personal obstacles are your clients facing that prevent them from saving for retirement?
What can you do to help your clients overcome the challenges they are facing?

Access the related resources from this podcast:

Top seven mistakes when claiming Social Security benefits by Paula McMillan (The Tax Adviser)
The Adviser’s Guide to Retirement and Elder Planning, a multi-part guide series including life transitions.
Broadridge Advisor (free access to PFP/PFS members) includes extensive-content written by CPAs, attorneys and other experts on planning strategies, new relevant laws, etc. that are articulated in client terms.
Retirement planning certificate, part of the PFP certificate program

Don’t miss the other episodes in this series:

What is the national state of retirement
Making conversations count: integrated financial planning (March 15, 2019)
Lessons from the 9^th hole: what current retirees have to say (March 15, 2019)

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Will your clients have enough to retire? {PFP Section}

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