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Wisconsin Retirement Planning

Wisconsin Retirement Council

Planning for retirement can be a complex and daunting task, especially when it involves navigating the specifics of a public pension system. At The Wisconsin Retirement Council, we are dedicated to helping you understand how your Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS) pension integrates with your other assets to create a comprehensive and effective retirement plan. Our goal is to provide the knowledge and guidance you need to feel confident about your financial future, ensuring that your pension works in harmony with your overall strategy.

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Our Planning Process

Our three-step planning process works to help identify and implement suitable financial strategies for helping our clients meet their needs and achieve their goals and objectives for retirement.

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Start Smart

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Apply Discipline

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Communicate Progress

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Start Smart

Get a Clear Understanding of Your Financial Life

First, we gain a thorough understanding of your current financial situation, goals, objectives, risk tolerance, and the key considerations that should be addressed in your retirement strategy.

Six Fundamental Financial Planning Considerations

Six key financial planning considerations can impact your financial goals now and in the future. The question is not if these will affect your finances, but to what degree. We evaluate your sentiment toward each consideration and quantify the potential effects on your assets over time. This allows us to build customized strategies to help you achieve your financial objectives for retirement.

Longevity

Outliving financial assets as the result of a longer life.

Inflation

Reduction in real purchasing power as the result of increasing cost of living.

Mortality

Loss of financial assets as the result of a partner’s or spouse’s death.

Liquidity

Limited access to assets to meet life’s unexpected financial needs.

Market

Unexpected reduction in the value of financial assets at the time of withdrawal.

Taxes

Decreasing income and assets and/or the impairment of legacy assets from increasing taxes.

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Apply Discipline

A Retirement Strategy Designed for You

Next, we design a retirement strategy that actively works to help optimize your wealth and protect your finances, keeping your goals and objectives at the forefront of our planning process.

Our Services, Your Future

We take the time to thoroughly explore your needs no matter the stage of life you are in to help provide a custom tailored solution that we continue to monitor and adjust until the end of time.

Establish tax planning strategies today for greater tax efficiency and financial flexibility later in retirement.

Safeguard your loved ones and your home with mortgage protection so they can afford keep your family's home.

Protect your estate and loved ones from unnecessary taxation and probate with proactive estate planning strategies.

Develop strategies to protect assets against the effects of inflation.

Ensure access to assets to meet life's unexpected  needs.

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Communicate Progress

Our Commitment to You

Lastly and continually, we work to ensure transparency of your income plan by providing visibility, proactive
outreach, and accessibility to our team throughout our working relationship.

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Tom Krause

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Steve Sprague

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Aundrea Worthing

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Lastly and continually, we work to ensure transparency of your income plan by providing visibility, proactive outreach, and accessibility to our team throughout our working relationship.

Our Upcoming Events

Events in October–December 2025

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Planning for retirement is never a "set it and forget it" activity: There are unexpected disasters, market drops, and changing laws that invariably cause retirees to reevaluate their plans.

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