Figuring out what to do with your company pension when you retire can be complicated—you have important choices to make that can impact both your and your family’s financial future. Once you choose your pension benefit, you are locked in forever. Plus, The decision you make will have a lasting impact on your family as well because how that money gets paid out to your spouse and/or your family after you’re gone is all a function of that decision. Stephen Dobrow from Primark Benefits is on the show to discuss lump sum vs. regular pension payments and how to determine what’s right for you and your family.
Plus, last week, we had a five-year breakeven on inflation expectations by hitting a new four-month high, underscoring new concerns about price pressures and where inflation is headed. Next, critical economic reports will be coming out in the next few weeks that will help determine if stocks may continue to regain lost ground, as they have after hitting their worst weekly decline in several months. All this and more on Protect Your Assets.

The Core PCE Price Index shows inflation is not decreasing, which is how the Fed determines if interest rates should continue to rise in an attempt to combat it. This creates a headwind on stocks, making it tougher for companies to make money. Add that recipe into the market, and you get a negative reaction. How can shorter-duration Treasuries help mitigate some of the losses you may be experiencing in your stock portfolio? All that and more on this week’s market segment.

One of the biggest decisions—and largest risks—you’ll face is retirement is how to take money out of your accounts and live off of that for the rest of your life when the markets are going up and down. If you do it right, it’s possible to have predictable, consistent income month after month. But if you do it hastily, you could run out. That’s what we want to help you avoid against, and one of the main reasons people run out of money is something called SOR risk, also known as sequence of return risk. This is one thing you have to closely guard against. The Sandman is covering what SOR risk is and how you can protect your retirement from it.
Plus, one of your most important assets is your health and well-being. Angie Campos, the clinical director of Egoscue postural therapy, is here to discuss how this therapy can help relieve pain.

2023 is off to a strong start for consumer spending. Even though the economy started on solid footing in January, the unexpected consumer strength, the tight labor market, and inflation, which keeps hanging in there, are challenging the Fed to keep interest rates higher for longer. Hear the rest of The Sandman’s market report.

Some uncertainty and volatility returned to the markets last week, prompting the question: Will the rally continue or will volatility increase? Plus, the 10-2 spread is inverted, meaning the two-year Treasury is paying more than the 10-year Treasury. Does this mean the Fed has raised rates too much? All this and more on this week’s market segment.