5 Ways Small-Business Owners Can Plan Well for Retirement
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Preparing financially for retirement can be complicated for anyone, but for small-business owners, the process often poses even more challenges.
Teachers, police officers, firefighters, and other government employees generally receive a pension. The corporate world can offer benefit plans or matching contributions. But entrepreneurs can't automatically rely on any of those features; instead, they have to put saving/investing plans in place for themselves and their employees.
And often, small-business owners aren't preparing sufficiently for retirement A survey of small-business owners, conducted by BMO Wealth Management showed 75 percent had less than
Small-business owners have to do it on their own, and many aren't preparing properly. Many owners feel as though they will never make it but they can. The idea is to simply start
Here are five ways small-business owners can wisely plan for retirement
Decide how much to save each month
An ideal average for saving per month is 15 percent of your pay. If that seems too much at first you might ease into it To begin, you may start with 5 percent and then ramp up 2 to 3 percent each year. As a better gauge, note that an employee with a 401 (k) can contribute up to
The SEP IRA
As defined by the
Rule of 100
Retirement accounts that offer the highest return may seem ideal, but a business owner who goes down this path can be easily overwhelmed and stressed. As a business owner, you generafly already have enough stress, which can manifest itself in so many ways. A basic tenet to follow is the Rule of 100. Under that rule, you subtract your age from 100, and what's left over is the percentage of your portfolio you put into investments with some risk. For example, if you are 50, then 50 percent of your assets would be at risk and 50 percent would be allocated conservatively - placed in a bank account or perhaps in an annuity, for example, to provide income for you in your future.
Life insurance
A small-business owner with a family should have 10 times his annual net income in life insurance. The life insurance can also be set up to provide a tax-free income in the future, from which the small-business owner can draw.
Key-person insurance
Like buying life insurance to provide financial help for your family when you pass away, a small-business owner may want to consider "key-person insurance." The death benefit offered through "key-person insurance" helps ensure that should a "key person" within a company pass away, there will be continuity of the business for its employees (and customers).
You need to save for the necessity stream as well as the discretionary stream. You should get the basics down and really look at covering your lifestyle, so you can look back and smile about the thousands of hours you worked at owning a business.
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