Retirement Investing
Bob Carlson offers his expert opinion on where to invest your money so that you can get through retirement safely and securely
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February 2014
February 28, 2014 04:15 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review New Fed Chairman Janet Yellen this week said things a number of investors apparently wanted to hear. Her words shouldn’t have surprised or made a difference to anyone who pays attention, but they apparently did. Yellen said that it is too early to tell […]
The True Costs of Working in Retirement
More and more people say that they plan to work in “retirement.” A growing minority say they will never retire. I’m not opposed to that. There are good reasons to continue working after age 65 or any other age, even if it’s not full time work. Some people need the money. A few extra years […]
Is It a Bull or Bear Market?
Stocks have had strong returns since 2009. I’ve been cautious on them most of that time and still don’t believe the long-term bear market that began in 2000 is over. Recent research from Crestmont Research explains why this still is a long-term or secular bear market, and the market rise since 2009 is a bull […]
Stockpile Gold for a Collapse
One theme that runs through Retirement Watch is that the right financial moves often are counterintuitive. Actions that seem logical and that many people think they should do often aren’t best for them. Consider the notion of buy and accumulating gold as insurance against an economic apocalypse. This often is one of the top recommendations […]
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January 2014
January 31, 2014 06:00 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review I’m heading home from the large gathering at the Orlando World MoneyShow, which wrapped up today. If you missed the show, parts of it still are available free at the internet eShow version. For details, click here. A number of investors were shocked the […]
Avoiding a Top Investment Mistake
Don’t expect 2014 to be a repeat of 2013. A key mistake people make with their finances is to expect the future to be like the best and especially for the future to be like the most recent past. It rarely works out that way. Take a look at these examples from Reuters. One of […]
The Buckets Strategy in Practice
The most difficult issues in retirement planning might be deciding how to spend your money and how to invest it during the spending years. One strategy that attracts people is know generally as the buckets strategy. This is when assign different amounts of your portfolio to different spending buckets and invest according to the bucket. […]
What Happened to Emerging Markets Investing
The emerging economies, and especially their stock markets, were leaders after the global economic bottom in 2009. Their stock indexes rose much more than developed economy indexes. Most analysts said those economies would have permanently higher growth rates and that their stock returns would be higher than developed market stocks. All that changed over the […]
