Editorial Staff

Clients should be especially mindful of market movements during the "fragile decade," the span beginning five years before retirement until five years after retirement.

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Data reported by the Investment Company Institute.

The most important consideration is that clients are able to complete the 35-year work period because benefits are based on the 35 highest-paid years from their careers.

Clients should plan to replace roughly 80% of their pre-retirement income after they leave the workforce for good.

Make sure clients understand that a 401(k) rollover could trigger a hefty tax bill, and that liquidating assets before the age of 59 1/2 could mean a hefty penalty.

Clients should work together with their spouses and plan as a couple to develop a Social Security claiming strategy that will maximize their retirement benefits.

Seniors are advised to withdraw from taxable and other retirement accounts before taking distributions from their HSA.

Only 3% of households earning under $50,000 a year benefitted from the mortgage interest tax deduction.

Data reported by the Investment Company Institute.