Comments on: What’s Causing Retirement Plans to Fail? http://www.fireyourfinancialadviser.com/blog/2009/03/whats-causing-retirement-plans-to-fail/ What your financial adviser doesn\'t tell you could be costing you millions! Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:13:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: cmiles http://www.fireyourfinancialadviser.com/blog/2009/03/whats-causing-retirement-plans-to-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-50 cmiles Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:57:45 +0000 http://www.fireyourfinancialadviser.com/blog/?p=117#comment-50 I went to the actual government sources on some. Another was an article last year that I referenced: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aQkSkpUS5jUI. I would then cross-reference their statistics. I also have a video on my blog on www.fireyourfinancialadviser.com called "The Retirement Titanic." In that video, I reference average versus actual returns for the S&P 500 Index (with dividends) from 1965 - end of 2004. It is pretty shocking the difference of 1.34%/yr average can make! I hope this helps. I went to the actual government sources on some. Another was an article last year that I referenced:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aQkSkpUS5jUI. I would then cross-reference their statistics.

I also have a video on my blog on http://www.fireyourfinancialadviser.com called “The Retirement Titanic.” In that video, I reference average versus actual returns for the S&P 500 Index (with dividends) from 1965 - end of 2004. It is pretty shocking the difference of 1.34%/yr average can make!

I hope this helps.

]]> By: Stephen Palmer http://www.fireyourfinancialadviser.com/blog/2009/03/whats-causing-retirement-plans-to-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-47 Stephen Palmer Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:31:15 +0000 http://www.fireyourfinancialadviser.com/blog/?p=117#comment-47 Chris, can you point me to some references for the statistics you cite? Thanks! Chris, can you point me to some references for the statistics you cite? Thanks!

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