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... my 62-yr-old mother in law has had a complete rearrangement of her finances due to the recent death of my FIL (see a number of other threads). The bottom line is that she has no debt at all, and about 60K in cash from life insurance. No other savings, although she is getting a pension from FIL's employer, which, combined with her pension in a few years, plus SS, should be enough for her to live on. Till then she's happy working and her health is good.
The plan I put together for her calls for putting most of the 60K into a 500 index and an international index (we already did a rollover IRA into a bond fund for part of the pension), keeping some in a money market for emergencies.
Her expenses seem stable and about what we expected, so she is starting to ask about moving the money into the funds, which is the last item on her financial to-do list. But now that the market is getting shaky and there's increasing talk of a recession, I'm getting chicken about moving the money. It's not like DH and I, who have decades (knock on wood) to recover if something drastic happens.
Is there some point at which it makes sense to revise her plan? I was going to go with 60/40 stocks/bonds.
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