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Do you have much outside of retirement accounts?

My experience with DM was that after Schwab knew that she died I was totally frozen out of her retirement accounts even though I had...

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In your circumstances, I'd do a TIPS ladder with annual rungs for the amount you think that you'll need each year.

I think that you are being penny-wise and pound-foolish avoiding the trust route. It's really preferable.

Have you considered a fixed income ladder for the 11 year need and equities after that?

Money market mutual funds have broken the buck only a few times in the last 100 years. I don't worry about such remote risks. From...

Actually, what Vanguard projects is in the ballpark with the approach that Jack Bogle originated...

To be clear, there is NO correlation between which party occupies the White House and stock returns. None. Nada. There are many...

I do have some stock funds, but not very much. Let's say that interest rates stay stable... I get my 6.8% yield. If Vanguard and...

I would buy more fixed income, but NOT bond funds or bond ETFs, rather individual issues or target maturity bond ETFs. Today's ~2% TIPS...

Not quite. Vanguard's outlook for U.S. cash is 3.1%-4.1%, 120 bps less than their 4.3%-5.3% outlook for U.S. and global ex-US currency...

Vanguards 2025 Outlook is available. I suspect the MarketPlace article is keyed on this part of it: Notably, Vanguard's outlook for...

Yield is annual dividends divided by my purchase cost. While most dividends are fixed at x.xx% of stated value which is typically $25...

We have ordered our last three cars in 2015, 2016 and 2022. We like ordering because can get the car exactly how we want it and...