Creating, Implementing and Monitoring the Retirement Plan

Overview

This CPE course can be purchased individually or as part of the Retirement Planning Certificate Program.

The SECURE Act is the first major legislation to revamp retirement plans in over a decade. The provisions and planning strategies to help your clients avoid unintended tax consequences on their estate and retirement plans have been implemented into this learning program.

Are you ready to help your clients set realistic expectations and goals? In this narrated PowerPoint video, Tom Tillery will discuss contributions to, and distributions from, various types of retirement plans.

Contributions to most retirement plans are made on a pre-tax or tax-deductible basis. Income tax benefits are available to both employers and employees; and, for most retirement plans, the contributions grow on an income tax-deferred basis.

Clients will face several challenges throughout the retirement years: providing care for elderly parents, children moving back home, and health issues. And, there are retirees who may have outlived, or overspent, their nest egg.

This course will explore the risk-management tools and strategies to mitigate or eliminate these risks (or both). Financial advisers and clients alike, often incorrectly perceive that deployment of strategies and recommendations is the first step in the implementation phase.

In the final part of this course, you will learn that the first step should be a review of the client's existing estate plan, or the creation of an estate plan. A current estate plan and the appropriate ownership of assets that are set aside for financial independence is just as, and may be even more, critical than the assets themselves.

Note: This course has been updated for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ("Tax Reform").

Moderator, Tom Tillery
Thomas Neal Tillery, CFPr, AEPr, CLUr, ChFCr, CRPCr, LUTCF is Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer of Parakleter Financial, Inc. Parakleter provides integrated fee-for-service financial planning without asset management or product sales.

Enhanced On-Demand Format

This on-demand format utilizes a slide deck format, enhanced with narration and interactive exercises that are designed to increase the level of engagement and hands-on application. Drag and drop exercises, case studies, and interactive diagrams are some examples of the interactive exercises that are used to supplement traditional instruction in this learning experience.

Highlights

Key Topics

• Personal retirement savings vehicles, including IRAs and other retirement plans
• Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid
• Retirement income and expenses

Prerequisites

None

Objectives

Learning Outcomes

• In this course, you will learn to do the following:
• Calculate annual contribution limits for an IRA.
• Differentiate the benefits of a traditional IRA and a Roth IRA.
• Determine who can receive Social Security retirement benefits.
• Identify the eligibility requirements for Medicare.
• Identify minimum qualified plan distribution requirements for employees at age 70.
• Recall the requirements of a salary continuation plan.