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Thank you Michael. Your point is well taken. I'm going to try and leave the savings for a year so it'll will grow a little more and then I will reduce the yearly to 16K and reduce it more in 4 years from then. And thank you JWR1945. Is that your year of birth? 1945 is mine. My brother was quite...

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Response to NORDS last post I like that expression, "waiting for someone to ring a bell," as a metaphor for what I thought I needed to learn. I thought rebalancing was just making sure that one's percentages remain set to the desired percent verses deciding which funds to allocate various...

embarking: Re: Burning Question« Reply #4 on: Today at 12:46pm » The Federal 401k (TSP) fees was until recently .06%, now 0.1%, which = apx $237/yr. I live in an apartment in Large Metro - no car. In other words, I am not anticipating large expenses. My taxes will be much much lower...

I accidently included my full name and the webmaster deleted everything for me. Hope this works on Today at 11:15am, embarking wrote: I will be retired as of June 30 this year and will be 59.5 at the end of July. After giving myself a crash course in finance for the last 2 months and have read...