What do you do when you earn well and have generally dialed in the fundamentals: save, invest, reduce debt, stay protected? The challenge was never knowing what
Retirement used to mean a short, quiet final chapter. For many people today, it's something else entirely.
For much of the last century, retirement followed a
Nearly half of investors check their portfolio at least once a day.1
Many of them aren't reviewing anything.
They're refreshing a number. Watching it move
Many retirement plans are built on a quiet assumption: that spending stays roughly the same from year one to year thirty.
It sounds reasonable. But research
Some years pass quietly. 2025 wasn't one of them.
Between market swings, geopolitical shocks, and a news cycle that never seemed to pause, this year tested
It’s possible for one economy to tell two different stories. One of growth, opportunity, and abundance. Another of constraint, anxiety, and scarcity.
This isn't
