Editor's note: This is the final article in a five-part series about all-asset retirement planning that covers such topics as using lifetime annuities and housing wealth, making the most of tax benefits, and managing investment portfolio risk. See below for links to the first four articles.
In writing this series, we saved the topic of managing investment risks in a retirement plan for last. Not because it's either least or most important, but rather, it's an area where things could get complicated, particularly if it got into security selection or hedging strategies that go beyond our retiree's — and even our — expertise.
