Investment Management for Retirement

Our strategy for investment management is based on more than six decades of extensive research. By all accounts, the most important factor in determining your portfolio’s risk and return is asset allocation. In short, asset allocation is the process of selecting an optimal mix of asset classes for your retirement portfolio, and it’s important to create a diversified portfolio that accurately reflects your level of risk. By understanding and defining your risk tolerance, we can select the asset classes that we believe will give you the greatest opportunity to achieve your investment goals, while adhering to your desired level of risk.

Security selection is the process of selecting securities for your retirement portfolio, whether they are stocks, bonds, exchange-traded funds, mutual funds or other securities. At Goepper Burkhardt, we believe that keeping your investment costs low is one of the most important factors in determining your long-term returns. Therefore, in addition to evaluating factors like risk, diversification, performance track records and other variables, we also screen for low costs. Because we are a fiduciary, you can rest easy knowing that, whenever we select securities on your behalf, we always have your best interest at heart.

If you have been planning for retirement, there's a good chance that you have money invested across a variety of accounts, such as a traditional IRA, a Roth IRA, a 401k or other types of accounts. Within each account, your investments have different tax characteristics (taxable, tax-deferred, tax-free, etc.). As part of our investment management services, we evaluate your asset location, determining which types of investments should be placed in which types of accounts. By doing so, we can help you minimize your current income tax liabilities, while also minimizing the taxes you will pay when you begin to withdraw money from your retirement portfolio.

Should you choose to work with us, we’ll prepare an Investment Policy Statement for you at the beginning of our relationship, and, as part of this policy, we’ll assign a percentage weight for each asset class that we will maintain. For example, your retirement portfolio may initially consist of 65% stocks and 35% bonds. However, over time, we will need to re-balance these percentages in order to take advantage of tax minimization opportunities and ensure we are always buying low and selling high.