{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Check In with Your Retirement Accounts & Create Lifetime Income","description":"One of the most basic retirement planning questions people have is  \u201cHow am I doing?\u201d  We want to know if we\u2019re on track for a comfortable retirement, or if we might need to change something.  To help, Fidelity came up with some so-called \u201cbenchmarks\u201d for how much money we should have set aside, by certain ages.  Are these kinds of things generally helpful, or is there a better way of determining how we\u2019re doing?   There\u2019s a term that occasionally pops up in the financial media \u201clifetime income.\u201d  Market Watch cited a survey in which one-in-three people believed they could get lifetime income from a mutual fund.  And one-in-five thought it comes from a target date fund.  Let\u2019s try to clear this up: First, is there really such a thing as lifetime income, or is that just some kind of marketing term?  And if there is, how does it work? Hear Steve explain!  ","author_name":"Retire Texas Style!","author_url":"http:\/\/www.retiretexasstyle.com","html":"