Reverse mortgage market has been “cleaned up,” say financial advisors. Innovative approaches to protecting retiree portfolios. CNBC Investor tool kit. Novel approaches include structured notes and no-load modified endowment contracts. No-load modified endowment contracts provide certain minimum guarantees. Deborah Nason | @dnason Once you’ve stopped working, what steps can be taken to protect your retirement…

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Researcher: No “Rational Reason” to Avoid Reverse Mortgages As the American population ages, experts have increasingly pointed to home equity as a key source of retirement income — even as many older homeowners remain hesitant to tap into it for reasons that continue to confound both academics and players in the mortgage industry. Steven Sass,…

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