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How much should a new retiree spend each year? This is a simple question with no simple answers. One approach is to start with a retiree's wealth and work backward to a safe withdrawal rate. If you have $2 million in assets, estimate a safe withdrawal rate that worked in most historical periods (say 4% inflation-adjusted) and withdraw a fixed percentage (starting at $80,000) of assets each year. It is easy to run very impressive looking Monte Carlo analyses using historical asset return data to show that retirees will most likely avoid running out of money before they die. Especially if they invest a healthy share in equities.
This approach is what William Sharpe, finance professor at Stanford University, calls "financial planning in fantasyland." The fantasy is that the simulations we conduct using these data can provide a useful estimate of retirement income sustainability. He isn't alone. Zvi Bodie, finance professor at Boston University, has criticized the belief that equities are less risky when held for a long period of time. My own analyses of safe withdrawal rates, in the July issue of Research magazine, show that a sustained period of low real asset yields would decimate a traditional safe withdrawal strategy. In a series of articles using asset return data from Europe and Asian markets, professor Wade Pfau estimates safe withdrawal rates of only 2-3%.
So if a 4% strategy isn't always safe, what is? If advisors aim downward, they run the risk that the client will spend too little and die with too much of their wealth unspent. Boston University economics professor Laurence Kotlikoff has criticized the traditionally low safe withdrawal strategy as self-serving because it favors asset preservation at the expense of a comfortable retirement. If advisors are compensated based on the amount of assets managed, they have no incentive to encourage higher levels of spending. They also avoid the psychic cost and liability of guiding a retiree toward poverty.
It would seem to most advisors that academics enjoy criticizing commonly used strategies but can't agree on a better solution. While academics disagree about assumptions and methods, most would agree that focusing solely on a single safe withdrawal rate doesn't make much sense. Economists assume that the ultimate goal is to maximize happiness in retirement. They see retirement as a game where the objective is to get as much enjoyment out of the money we have while dealing with uncertainty about longevity and asset returns. A happiness-based retirement income plan wouldn't begin by focusing solely on assets. It would focus on what we spend.
Douglas Bernheim of Stanford and his co-authors in 2001 found that rich retirees really didn't spend that much more as a percentage of their pre-retirement income than less wealthy retirees. The primary difference between wealthy and less wealthy retirees is that the rich die with a lot more money—even if they don't have a particularly strong desire to leave an inheritance. This is surprising to most economists, who assume that the reason people accumulate money is to spend it. Data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey collected by the Labor Department show that wealthy retirees only spend a lower share of their income on categories such as food and clothing, but do spend significantly more on discretionary expenses like vacations and gifts.
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Acceptance of investment risk means that returns could be higher or lower than safe investments. Translated into spending, a riskier portfolio means that we could have more money to spend on vacations and eating out. But we could also be forced to cut back if our portfolio takes a turn for the worse. That uncertainty is the essence of Bodie's argument against traditional retirement portfolios that place a good portion of a retiree's wealth in equities. If equities perform as they have in the past then you'll be fine. If they don't, then a retiree may have to cut back on the basic spending that is crucial to happiness.
Matching an investment strategy to each chunk of retirement income allows an advisor to take risks where it is appropriate and provide safety for the expenses that mean the most to a client. Basic expenses may be best funded with safe assets such as Social Security, a pension or an annuity. Even safer are instruments that provide inflation protection. The next slice of spending may be funded with income from a relatively safe portfolio, and discretionary expenses with a riskier portfolio. This makes intuitive sense since the client is then bearing risk only in the types of spending where they are willing to cut back. For those who still remember their economic theory classes, this is also consistent with the concept of declining marginal utility of consumption. Each additional dollar spent in retirement provides a little less happiness than the last.
The risk of low asset performance is most often realized later in retirement when assets are depleted while a client is still living. This is the point where a client is forced to live off of her guaranteed retirement income, also known as the floor. Following the retirement income approach means that you have protected a client's income floor so that they can meet basic expenses. Unfortunately, flooring products such as annuities or TIPS are expensive. An advisor following a flooring strategy may be faced with recommending that the client lose a large chunk of her retirement portfolio for the promise of a very modest retirement income. This may not seem like a very good deal to the client, and may also not seem like a very good deal to the advisor not compensated for the flooring product.
A reasonable way to build a floor is to buy a product that only pays out later in life when a client is most likely to run out of money and that provides a more substantial payout due to mortality credits (many other owners won't be around to claim their benefits). This can be accomplished through the remarkably underused advanced life deferred annuity (ALDA), or longevity insurance.
My graduate student Duncan Williams and I have begun simulating optimal deferral periods for clients given their other sources of guaranteed income, age, risk tolerance and wealth in order to determine when and at what age an ALDA is optimal. We find that only an unrealistically risk-tolerant client would not benefit from longevity insurance, and that the optimal age duration of deferral for a 65-year old is often until the mid-70s. The irony of our analyses is that an ALDA allows an advisor to recommend a riskier investment portfolio, often leading to higher simulated wealth later in life for those who experience positive investment return sequences. Those who aren't as fortunate have a more generous income floor to rely on.
Linking a retirement investment strategy with spending can also help a client sleep at night. The prospect of poverty, however remote, looms over any strategy that involves a shortfall risk. Matching assets with spending allows both a client and an advisor to understand what part of a budget is secure, and allows taking investment risks in spending categories where the client is willing to trade off the possibility of scaling back for a better chance of increased comfort.
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Following the agreement between the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Government of the Russian Federation, a human rights presence was established within the United Nations Country Team (UNCT) in the Russian Federation in January 2006. The High Commissioner's two visits to the Russian Federation in 2005 and 2006 provided opportunities to consolidate and strengthen the cooperation with national partners. Throughout the year 2007, comprehensive consultations concerning contents and forms of longer-term cooperation to promote human rights in the Russian Federation took place with OHCHR's counterparts in Moscow. As a result, a Framework for Cooperation with the Russian Federation for 2007 and beyond was elaborated and approved, through an exchange of letters between the High Commissioner and the Minister of Foreign Affairs in August 2007.
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Was there ever a time when the holidays were not busy? Probably not. I suppose if we went back to the very first Christmas we would find a great deal of hurried busyness: Joseph was out sitting in the garage on the donkey, honking the saddle horn, doing his best to hurry Mary along just a bit.
She was inside packing one more bag for the holiday trip to visit Joseph's neurotic family in Bethlehem. Of course she was moving as fast as she could. A woman better than eight months pregnant, who was planning an excursion over field and fountain, moor and mountain, was moving nowhere very quickly.
But there were places to go, people to see, and history to be made. So Mary and Joseph hurried on their way into the throngs of people who had gathered in the famed City of David for the census demanded by the Roman authorities.
The story is as familiar as our own children's names. Upon their arrival there was no room for Mary or Joseph at the local Econolodge. So they checked the Fairfield. Strike out. The Motel Six? Nope, not there either. The young couple was forced into being squatters at the local KOA campground. There Jesus was born, ignominiously into a Palestinian backwater. All the while the counting of people, taxes, sheep, and profits went on unhindered. The world was too busy to note his arrival.
Several Christmas seasons ago I was very busy at the hospital where I worked. There was a high census of patients. There were extraordinary cases in the Intensive Care Unit and Emergency Department. The entire staff was attempting to coordinate help for patients who would not have a Christmas for their families.
In our busyness, we were on the verge of overlooking the old "reason for the season." Then, one of the hospital volunteers, unknown to her, brought us a much needed reprieve and put a smile back on everyone's face. She came rushing into the Pastoral Care office with the panicked words, "Jesus is missing!"
At first, I thought someone had taken a crucifix out of one of the hospital rooms when they discharged to go home. It happens more times than you might imagine. As a person packs their bags, sometimes Jesus finds himself among a patient's personal belongings. But no worries; the hospital keeps a whole box of Jesuses in a hidden cabinet to replace the stolen ones. Such theft doesn't bother me. I figure if a person needs Jesus enough to steal him off the wall of a hospital, then by all means, take him.
But the missing Jesus this volunteer spoke of was the baby Jesus from the Nativity scene. Everyone was there: Mary, Joseph, the magi, shepherds, sheep, donkeys, angels – all the usual suspects. Except for Jesus. The manger was empty. Our volunteer concluded that he had been stolen from his crib while sleeping. The Christmas carol says the shepherds were watching and guarding Jesus – but apparently not in the hospital chapel.
To the volunteer's relief, it was quickly clarified that Jesus was not missing. He simply hadn't arrived yet. Baby Jesus was wrapped, not in swaddling clothes, but in shrink wrap and stuck in drawer. He was safe and sound waiting for Christmas Day before making his grand entrance. We, along with all the Nativity scene characters, wait for him until then.
In your own heart Jesus may be locked away, collecting dust in some dark little corner. You may have grown so busy that you have not even thought of him since last year (or at least since Easter). If so, I think he's due an unwrapping, don't you?
Break the packaging. Knock off the dust. Get him out of the drawer. Let him take his place at the center of this Advent season, and at the center of your life. We may be busy, but not so busy that we forget to "glorify and praise God for all we have heard and seen" in this child born in Bethlehem.
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The game at Samara Arena, Samara, starts at 4 p.m. local time, or 8 a.m. Eastern (5 a.m. Pacific). You can watch it live on Fox in English, or in Spanish on Telemundo and NBC Universo through your cable company. If you don't have cable you can stream it via Hulu with Live TV, or fuboTV. If you can't watch the game live, fuboTV provides access to all of the games for up to 72 hours after the original airing.
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Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests petition: Hold off on wind project
Credit: By DAN SEUFERT, Union Leader Correspondent | January 12, 2014 | www.unionleader.com ~~
Days after Danbury joined Alexandria in firmly rejecting the proposed Wild Meadows Wind Farm project, the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests has filed a petition to suspend consideration of the project until the state comes up with new rules for siting energy projects.
Atlantic Wind, LLC and its parent company, Iberdrola Renewables of Spain, are seeking approval from the state's Site Evaluation Committee for the 75.9-megawatt, 23-turbine Wild Meadows project. Company officials say it will produce enough energy to power 30,000 average homes each year and 90,000 homes at peak production.
Iberdrola officials, who filed their application for the project last month, have promised economic benefits that include first-year payments of $695,000 to the town of Danbury, $370,000 to the town of Alexandria, up to $565,000 for New Hampshire's general revenue fund and $280,000 to local landowners.
The Forest Society on Friday made public its petition to suspend consideration of the facility. It cites SB 99, a bill passed last year mandating a study of the SEC and its process of siting of energy facilities. Among the tasks required of the state Office of Energy and Planning study is "to better ensure that the review of energy facility applications serves the public good."
The bill also required the SEC to adopt administrative rules no later than Jan. 1, 2015, that include specific criteria to be applied in determining if the requirements of state law have been met by applicants. It also requires the SEC to give "due consideration" to the views of the town governing bodies.
The society's petition states that Wild Meadows does not serve the public good of the Newfound Lake-Cardingan Mountain area or of the state.
"Iberdrola has signed a fifteen-year contract under which all of the energy generated by the Wild Meadows Wind Project will be sold to Massachusetts utilities, and all or most will be used to satisfy the requirements of the Renewable Portfolio Standard in Massachusetts, not New Hampshire," it states. "… New Hampshire will bear all of the environmental, economic, and other impacts of the Wild Meadows Wind Project, primarily in Danbury, Alexandria, and the Newfound Lake Region … suspending consideration of the Wild Meadows Wind Project until after the SB 99 process is complete would be in the public interest."
Jane Difley, president of the Forest Society, said the project is a threat to the state. "New Hampshire's landscapes are a critical part of our state identity and economy, and our permitting processes are inadequate," she said.
"Our board of trustees believes that there is a role for wind power in the state's energy future, but that we should not be permitting new large-scale wind projects before establishing siting guidelines as well as other changes to the way the SEC handles applications and accommodates community values and input."
Iberdrola officials said they need time to review the society's petition.
"We just received the motion at the end of the week, and once we've had a chance to thoroughly review, we will respond accordingly," said Iberdrola's Paul Copleman.
Jack Savage, the forest society's vice president for communications and outreach, said the SEC can't properly handle projects coming before it now. A Portuguese developer, for instance, has notified towns in the region that it is considering building a second wind farm near Newfound Lake.
"Right now, it's open season on New Hampshire landscapes for wind proposals," Savage said.
The Wild Meadows Legal Fund, a group of landowners in the Newfound Lake that formed to oppose Wild Meadows, said the petition "makes great sense." The fund filed a similar motion, said member Bill Everett of Hebron.
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'Pumpkin Patrol' preparing for another Halloween
On Halloween, a select team of individuals, armed with portable ham radios will venture out into the shroud of night.
They will guard overpasses on stretches of the New York State Thruway to prevent shenanigans and not-so-nice pranks typical to the specific holiday.
For example, no motorist wants to encounter objects hurled from an overpass as they travel below the bridges.
Every year, the New York State Police Troop T, which polices the Thruway, partners with citizen-band and amateur radio groups to look out for suspicious activity.
The collaborative effort has been dubbed "Pumpkin Patrol."
People such as Verona resident Bob Haeger and the Madison-Oneida Amateur Radio Club, a ham radio enthusiast group, collectively keep watch over the entire stretch of the state thruway.
"This is a great public service," he said. "I think our presence alone is a deterrent."
Haeger and fellow club members will monitor activity at select Thruway overpasses in Madison and Oneida counties.
Because ham radios use an analog signal that is not compatible with digital signals used by law enforcement, Haeger explains that radio groups will each have a command center set up for the region they are monitoring. Any suspicious activity is reported to the command center then relayed to law enforcement.
In addition, Troop T will be on the lookout for other violations including drunk driving, speeding and aggressive driving.
Police tell volunteers to not try to apprehend anyone observed throwing objects from overpasses, but gather as much identifying information about the individual as possible, such as a license plate number.
"They don't want any of us to get hurt," Haeger noted.
Pumpkin Patrol began in 1976 by a Fort Johnson, N.Y. woman who was talking to a truck driver on her citizens band radio when an object thrown from an overpass crashed through the windshield of the 18-wheeler.
The trucker was injured by broken glass.
After that incident, the woman, Katherine St. Jacques and friends, voluntarily kept watch at three overpasses in the Fort Johnson area, and the effort grew every year with more volunteers monitoring stretches of the 570-mile-long Thruway.
Haeger said people have been known to throw pumpkins, cinderblocks and stones from the overpasses.
In 1990, troopers joined the cause, making it a state-wide crime prevention effort.
Haeger said the ham radio club has been participating in the program for about 20 years, and he has been a member for about 10.
In his time with the group, Haeger said there has not been an incident that needed to be reported to police.


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SAN FRANCISCO, CA /PRNewswire/ -- SEMI honored Ms. Kazuko Ikeda with the Karel Urbanek Award, which recognizes industry technologists for their outstanding contributions to the development of standards for the semiconductor and related industries. SEMI also presented six industry executives with SEMI North American Standards Awards. The SEMI Standards awards were announced at a reception held on the second day of SEMICON West 2007.
The Karel Urbanek Memorial Award, the highest Standards honor bestowed by SEMI, is awarded to individuals who have made significant contributions to the SEMI International Standards program and to the development of semiconductor, FPD, and related industry standards. It is named in honor of the late Karel Urbanek, co-founder of Tencor Instruments, a former member of the SEMI Board of Directors and a dedicated leader of the SEMI International Standards program.
"We are pleased to recognize the great efforts put forth by Ikeda-san for her tenacity in helping to coordinate JEITA and SEMI standards activities," said Stanley T. Myers, president and CEO of SEMI. "Her work has been instrumental in enabling SEMI to become a truly global organization for the worldwide semiconductor industry."
Ms. Ikeda successfully led the Japan Silicon Wafer Committee for 11 years from 1995 to 2006, during which she took strong leadership of developing 300 mm wafer specifications and other related standards. In addition, she served on the Japan Regional Standards Committee (JRSC), contributing her extensive knowledge of silicon applications for various devices, including discrete, bipolar and MOS.
Urbanek Award recipients are selected by the International Standards Committee, the governing board for the SEMI International Standards Program. Nominations for the other standards awards are made by the SEMI North America Standards staff and standards committee leaders, with the winners selected by a vote of the standards program members.
In addition to the Karel Urbanek Award, SEMI bestowed SEMI Standards Awards in multiple categories to six other recipients. Categories and recipients include:
- The Merit Award -- presented to a standards volunteer for making a major contribution to the semiconductor industry through the SEMI Standards program -- George Celler, SOITEC USA
- The Technical Editor Appreciation Award -- given in recognition the yeoman service done by individual standards volunteers -- Dave Walsh, Standards Technology Group
- The Leadership Award -- given to an individual for providing outstanding leadership in guiding the SEMI Standards Program -- Frank Flowers, FMC
- The Corporate Device Member Award -- presented to an individual who is acting officially or unofficially as corporate representative from a device manufacturer for outstanding contributions to the development of SEMI Standards -- Harvey Wohlwend, ISMI
- The Honor Award -- presented to an individual who has demonstrated long-standing dedication to the advancement of SEMI Standards -- Rob Henry, Thermo Fisher Electron and Stephen Sumner, Entegris.
The SEMI Standards Program, established in 1973, covers all aspects of semiconductor process equipment and materials, from wafer manufacturing to test, assembly and packaging, in addition to the manufacture of flat panel displays and micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS). About 1,500 volunteers worldwide participate in the program, which is made up of 17 global technical committees. Visit the Web site for further details about SEMI Standards.
SEMI is a global industry association serving companies that provide equipment, materials and services used to manufacture semiconductors, displays, nano-scaled structures, micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) and related technologies. SEMI maintains offices in Austin, Beijing, Brussels, Hsinchu, Moscow, San Jose (CA), Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo and Washington, D.C.