RETIREMENT INCOME INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT
Let's make retirement work for you.
Turn your savings into steady income with investment management strategies designed to secure your financial future.
Retirement marks a significant shift – from earning a paycheck, to relying on your savings and investments for income.
Creating a reliable retirement paycheck from your portfolio to generate steady returns while protecting your wealth from inflation and market downturns requires a strategic blend of investment types and hands-on management.
AWP’s Retirement Income Investment Portfolios are carefully constructed to help retired investors:
AWP's custom, analysis-backed construction and proactive, fact-based management set your portfolio up for stable, steady income generation.
Custom Portfolio Construction
We don’t use cookie-cutter portfolios. We manage all portfolios in house based on your life goals.
In-House Analysis
AWP’s team of CFP®’s, CFA’s and asset management specialists work together collectively to design portfolios for our clients that we would personally invest in.
Leverage of 3rd-Party Analysts
AWP leverages the information available from top industry analysts and technology platforms to make informed decisions positively supported based on academic research.
Our approach is backed by decades of academic research and helps you:
Every move we make takes into consideration your other income sources, like:
Build Sustainable Lifetime Income.
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Our Investment Strategies
To form the backbone of a reliable retirement paycheck, providing a blend of stability and income, we leverage the following investment strategies. Depending on your income needs and risk/volatility tolerance, your portfolio will be a combination of:
YIELD STRATEGIES
Fixed Income & U.S. Treasuries Coupled with Dividend-Producing Stocks
Yield strategies focus on conservative investments that offer consistent payouts, including fixed income securities, U.S. Treasuries, and dividend-paying stocks. These investments form the backbone of a reliable retirement paycheck, providing a blend of stability and income.
Fixed Income & U.S. Treasuries
- Avg. Annual Returns*
Short-term bonds
2-3%
Long-term bonds
3-4%
Corporate & municipal bonds
3-5%
- DIVIDEND INCOME*
2-4%
* Can add disclaimers here
Dividend-Paying Stocks
- Avg. Annual YIELD & RETURNS*
2-5%
3-5%
- DIVIDEND INCOME*
3-5%
* Can add disclaimers here
Reasonable Income Potential
By combining these income-generating investments, retirees can enjoy a predictable and stable flow of income, typically yielding 3% to 4% annually on average across both asset classes.
- ANNUAL INCOME DISTRIBUTION*
3-4%
* Can add disclaimers here
TOTAL RETURN STRATEGIES
Growth with Income Distribution
Total return strategies focus on maximizing both capital appreciation and income generation. This approach leverages equity investments to participate in market growth while providing income through regular rebalancing and withdrawal strategies.
Equity Market Strategies
- KEY FEATURES
- TRADE-OFF
Potential for strong returns over long-term, but market volatility is always a risk.
- INCOME POTENTIAL
8-10% historical returns from a diversified stock portfolio
* Can add disclaimers here
Cash Buffer
- KEY FEATURES
- TRADE-OFF
- INCOME POTENTIAL
* Can add disclaimers here
Reasonable Income Potential
Combining growth and buffer strategies, retirees can expect 4-5% annual income distribution.
- ANNUAL INCOME DISTRIBUTION*
4-5%
* Can add disclaimers here
ASSET-BACKED STRUCTURED EQUITY
Reliable Income with Downside Protection
Asset-backed structured equity strategies offer an alternative for retirees seeking a balance between income generation and capital protection. These investments are typically tied to tangible assets like real estate or infrastructure, and they offer structured returns with downside protection.
Structured Equity Investments
- KEY FEATURES
Provide income with capital protection. Often include downside protection in exchange for limited upside.
- TRADE-OFF
- INCOME POTENTIAL
* Can add disclaimers here
Reasonable Income Potential
For retirees seeking a blend of income and stability, structured equity products can generate 4% to 8% in annual income distributions, and in some cases an opportunity for an additional 4 to 6% in long-term capital appreciation. These vehicles have unique features offering protection against significant market downturns of equity market exposure.
- ANNUAL INCOME DISTRIBUTION
4-8%
* Can add disclaimers here
INCOME-PRODUCING REAL ESTATE
Direct Investments and Private Real Estate Funds
Real estate is an attractive option for retirees looking for stable, inflation-protected income. Direct ownership of rental properties and investments in private real estate funds provide consistent cash flow and potential long-term appreciation.
Direct Real Estate Investments
- KEY FEATURES
- TRADE-OFF
Reliable stream of rental income in exchange for higher maintenance.
- ANNUAL INCOME DISTRIBUTION*
4-5%
Net rental income alone can bring 4-5% annually.
* Can add disclaimers here
Private Real Estate Funds
- KEY FEATURES
- TRADE-OFF
- ANNUAL INCOME DISTRIBUTION*
5-7%
* Can add disclaimers here
OUR COMPASS
AWP's Core Investment Philosophy
As a fiduciary, our job is to make investment decisions that are in your best interest. This means ignoring the daily headlines and sticking with evidence-based solutions. Our investment philosophy is centered on this principle, along with the following core tenets:
Value-Driven Investment Decisions
May provide for a margin of safety that results in a lower probability of losing permanent capital, which may ultimately lead to long term wealth accumulation. The goal is to create an asset mix that seeks to provide the optimal balance between expected risk and return for a long-term investment horizon.
Strategic Asset Allocation
A well-diversified portfolio centered around your long-term goals. Just because an investment is available (like gold), doesn’t mean it’s the right choice for you. For example, corporate bonds may behave like stocks during major market downturns, which doesn’t provide adequate diversification for a retiree. We focus on investing in asset classes that:
With a Tactical Tilt
Reducing overpriced assets and purchasing underpriced assets will naturally create a “buy low, sell high” framework to protect capital in down markets and reduce volatility.
Identifying Top Performers
Allocating meaningful capital to highly qualified managers and ideas is better than over diversifying a portfolio. We seek out investment managers and funds that are in the top quartile relative to their peers.
Diversifying Strategies
It’s unlikely that a single investment firm can internally employ the “best” talent to trade all types of securities and strategies; therefore, we seek out highly qualified independent third‐party managers within each asset class to manage our clients’ capital, where appropriate.
Sell Only When Necessary
As Warren Buffett famously said, his favorite holding period is “forever” — and we share that philosophy. While holding an investment indefinitely may not be practical for most retirement investors, we design portfolios with low turnover. Each time an investment is bought or sold, costs are incurred, including not only visible costs like transaction fees and taxes but also hidden costs such as bid-ask spreads. These expenses can erode your returns. To maximize your investment returns and minimize taxes, we intentionally select investments with low turnover.
Reducing Costs
We use low-cost or no-cost investment options to lower the “hurdle” to achieving gains, reducing the need to take on unnecessary risks to meet your performance goals. Research from Morningstar indicates that the cost of your investments is one of the strongest predictors of future returns. Simply put, low-cost investments have historically outperformed those with higher fees.
Volatility Management
Financial losses come from selling investments when the market is down. People do this because they either a) take on too much risk or volatility exposure to begin with or b) need the cash when the market is down. We make sure our growth investors have an adequate reserve of cash to exploit market opportunities when they become available, rather than becoming a victim to them.
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