{"id":3308,"date":"2016-04-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rbcwealthmanagement.com\/en-us\/insightsinvesting-basics-tracking-goals-vs-tracking-returns\/"},"modified":"2023-11-01T11:05:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T15:05:49","slug":"investing-basics-tracking-goals-vs-tracking-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbcwealthmanagement.com\/en-us\/insights\/investing-basics-tracking-goals-vs-tracking-returns","title":{"rendered":"Investing basics: Tracking goals vs tracking returns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Building a strong portfolio and tracking your rate of return is a great way to measure investment success, but is a quarterly percentage the best measure of how you\u2019re tracking towards your long-term goals? While that rate of return is an important barometer, there are other facets that can impact how you access your overall wealth picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe deal with it every day as we work with our clients, whether they&#8217;re high-net-worth or more modest\u2014the mass affluent level\u2014they all have pretty much the same concern,\u201d says Bobby Lovgren, a wealth planning manager with RBC Wealth Management\u2013U.S. \u201cThey want to <span><a href=\"\/insights\/will-you-outlive-your-money-in-retirement-3-risks-to-plan-for-now\">sustain their lifestyle in retirement and they don\u2019t want to run out of money<\/a><\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHaving enough\u201d means keeping tabs on more than just that rate of return because the road to retirement is a long one that\u2019s paved with taxes, inflation and volatility in the market. <span>Here&#8217;s how to check the pulse of your retirement goals and prepare for whatever the financial tides may bring<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-when-three-is-better-than-four\">When three is better than four<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>One key concept, says Lovgren, is figuring out your \u201creal\u201d rate of return. 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Yet, your portfolio\u2019s rate of return has shown volatility over the past few years, dipping below five percent some years and others up to 10 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd let\u2019s say your plan calls for you to spend roughly four percent of your portfolio each year in your retirement,\u201d says Lovgren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a year when that portfolio is down by 10 percent, including the four percent you spend, that portfolio will finish down 14 percent from where you were at the beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhich means the portfolio has to earn back over 20 percent the next year to bring you back [to breaking] even plus what you have to spend for the following year,\u201d Lovgren says. \u201cSo volatility in the portfolio is one of the key things that has to be measured [to] make sure you\u2019re still on track to meet your goals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it isn\u2019t just market volatility that will impact your portfolio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health care costs can be a substantial drain on any nest egg. 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Invenergy CEO Michael Polsky\u2019s 2003 divorce from his wife cost $184 million and BET founder Robert Johnson handed over $400 million in his divorce settlement from his wife Sheila in 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Lovgren sits down with clients to set up a financial roadmap, he likens the process to setting sail in a lake versus planning a transatlantic voyage. 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