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Okay, you are one of the lucky ones, making a killing in real estate and the stock market, or you have scrimped and saved so some day you hope to have a big enough nest egg to retire. Congratulations! You’ve done it. Now what?

Financial planning has historically focuse

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

d on helping people achieve major financial goals such as saving and investing in order to retire comfortably, sending kids to college or buying that private island in the south pacific.

But what about retirees, who, for the most part, have already achieved their goals

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

and simply want to preserve their way of life? Life changes when you are living your goals rather than aspiring toward them. Suddenly, you have more to lose than to gain and you want to know how to keep what you have. Building and generating wealth is no longer the mos

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

important thing in this stage of life, but preservation of wealth is vital. With more Americans approaching this phase of life, the issue of how to manage money within retirement is increasingly becoming a priority.

Consider these statistics:

The largest growing popu

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

ation segment in our country is people 100 years or older.

Within the next decade, most of the boomers will reach traditional retirement age. About 25% of the U.S. population--one in four people--will be retired.

Many of us will spend more years in retirement than we

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

did working.

Yet when you search on the internet for retirement help, you’ll find page after page almost exclusively focused on making money and building wealth for retirement rather than managing wealth in retirement. No one seems to be educating retirees about manag

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

ng their income and developing the right distribution strategies. Estate planning is well covered—probably because it’s a “goal” to provide money to heirs. But helping retirees to manage the money they have today, while they are still in retirement, is conspicuously a

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

sent in most financial education efforts.

From our experience in educating our clients for retirement, there are seven key areas where retirees need both financial education and financial planning in order to protect and preserve wealth:

Money management. Managing yo

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

r monthly expenses to ensure they are not forced to take large distributions from their retirement nest eggs to meet current obligations.

Cleaning up the nest. Out of site, out of mind is far too often the mantra for retirees. However, a failure to organize can be disa

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

trous later on. Pull together all those retirement accounts: IRA’s (yes, some folks do forget about older IRA’s they have), old 401k’s from previous employers, annuities etc. review and consolidates. Roll-over that 401k to your IRA, which is almost always in your best i

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

terest. Make sure the right information, such as beneficiaries are on the accounts and they are set up directly. Once you or your spouse dies, it’s too late.

Distribution planning. Planning distributions to ensure that you are not taking too much or too little from t

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

heir retirement accounts, minimizing tax liability, and meeting Required Minimum Distribution amounts.

Managing your money and continuing to accumulate assets. Now that retirees are living longer, their nest eggs must last longer. The old paradigm of becoming more co

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

servative in retirement can sometimes backfire if retirees become too conservative and stop growing their assets. It is important to make sure that they are continuing to grow their nest egg to at least keep pace with their distribution needs and to outpace inflation an

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

taxes.

Protecting wealth. This is the area where retirees get the most attention—in the form of estate and insurance planning. However, they typically get their information from different sources and there is much inaccurate or misleading information as to how to se

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

up wills, trusts, and charitable giving programs and what type of insurance policies are appropriate based on their personal circumstances. Also, insurance and estate planning tend to be viewed separately, when in reality both are tools to protect wealth and often to m

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

nimize taxes.

Establishing your legacy. For high net worth folks, certain other challenges exist to ensure that your estate survives you: Pre-managing your estate tax liability so the kids won’t have to sell off your assets such as the business or the farm to pay the b

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

ll; setting up Charitable Remainder Trusts (CRT); establishing a family limited partnership or LLC; other (vehicles that are not even invested yet)

Managing the Ultimate Distribution. This is the most dangerous area and, not surprising the most confusing and overlooked

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

Careful consideration must be paid to not only saving and investing your money, but on the proper mechanics on how the assets need to be held in order to maximize your income distribution through your retirement. The tax laws are changing all the time, sometimes drasti

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

ally as with the Pension Protection Act of 2006, so educate yourself early and often

Your financial security can not be left to chance, especially in your golden years. Just because you’ve achieved financial security, does not mean your financial planning is over. You

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

an spend a lifetime updating yourself on the subject, so you have two choices: be the expert or hire one. It does no good to spend your life saving and investing wisely only to give it all back to Uncle Sam! After all, it’s what you and your loved ones keep, that counts

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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