Retirement Planning to Support Your Ideal Lifestyle

Creating a retirement income plan that fits your lifestyle.

Your Retirement Planning Checklist

Retirement Planning is a key component of a comprehensive financial strategy. It involves understanding your unique needs, goals, and circumstances to create a plan that supports your long-term financial health. Whether you're preparing for retirement, navigating a major life event, or building wealth, what is retirement planning? helps ensure you're making informed decisions. At Carter Financial Group, we provide guidance tailored to your specific situation, combining expert knowledge with a personalized approach. Our goal is to help you feel confident about your financial future. Through thoughtful planning and ongoing support, we help turn your goals into actionable, achievable steps.

Who Should Start Planning—and When

Retirement Planning is a key component of a comprehensive financial strategy. It involves understanding your unique needs, goals, and circumstances to create a plan that supports your long-term financial health. Whether you're preparing for retirement, navigating a major life event, or building wealth, retirement planning helps ensure you're making informed decisions. At Carter Financial Group, we provide guidance tailored to your specific situation, combining expert knowledge with a personalized approach. Our goal is to help you feel confident about your financial future. Through thoughtful planning and ongoing support, we help turn your goals into actionable, achievable steps.

How We Build Retirement Income Strategies

Decumulation—the process of drawing down your retirement savings—is just as important as accumulation. Carter Financial Group helps you navigate this phase with strategies that balance income needs, tax efficiency, and longevity risk. We assist in determining withdrawal order, setting up required minimum distributions (RMDs), and protecting your savings against market volatility. Our goal is to help you enjoy retirement with confidence, knowing your money is working for you in a sustainable, manageable way.

Retirement Planning Support for Clients Across Northwest Suburbs
From Barrington to Palatine, we help clients design retirement plans that support their ideal lifestyle. Whether you’re just starting to plan or already approaching retirement, our local insight and strategic approach make all the difference.

Everything we do – from choosing a career to managing career progressions at our employers – is presumably so we and our families and dependents can have a better life. But if we fail to plan for “Life after work”, all of the plans and effort we put into our working lives, could be jeopardized.


What will retirement look like? Are we spending too much? What if we’re not saving enough? How frequently should we be saving? Could we run out of money in retirement? Are we investing in the right places? How much will we need in retirement? Will Government and Employer pension plans cover us through retirement?


If we don’t plan for retirement, we’ll never be able to prepare for it. And an ill-prepared retirement is bound to be one filled with financial stress and chaos!