My Comments: By the time they arrived on the scene, I felt there wasn’t enough time left for me to grow a meaningful amount in the few years I had left to work. So, I never opened a Roth IRA. I wish I had but it didn’t happen. I now have many clients with Roth …
Continue reading Reasons to Convert Traditional Retirement Accounts to a Roth IRA
My Comments: Virtually every employed person in the US has some expectation of getting older and having to survive on resources accumulated over the years. A great many of them have money accumulating in retirement accounts that to some extent depend on continued advances in the stock and bond markets. It’s very easy to go …
Continue reading 8 Facts You Need to Know About Stock Market Corrections
My Comments: I wish I knew what will happen between now and this crash people keep talking about. The warning signs are meaningless unless they actually result in a crash, which may or may not happen for many months. Yes, we are more or less in unchartered territory, but then every tomorrow is unchartered territory, …
Continue reading 14 Warning Signs That a Stock Market Crash Is Coming – (the first 7)
My Comments: My time these days is spent promoting my book, The Dynamics of Retirement, and it's companion online course. I consider myself semi-retired. For most of us, retirement turns into a 25-30 trek into an unknown financial future, with new and unexpected financial pressures. Studies reveal that 1 in 5 seniors today are living …
Continue reading Two-Thirds of Americans Are in for a Huge Financial Shock in Retirement
My Comments: My time these days is spent promoting my book, The Dynamics of Retirement, and the complementary online course I created. I consider myself semi-retired. If you're interested, there's an image of the book just to the right on this page. People often fail to realize retirement turns out to be a 25-30 trek …
Continue reading Two-Thirds of Americans Are in for a Huge Financial Shock in Retirement
My Comments: Yeah, I know. Retirement is far down the road and it's conceptually difficult to imagine yourself ever getting there. But unless you die first, you will get there. And when you do, you're still looking at another 25+ years of life with bills to pay. How will you handle that if you're broke? …
Continue reading 21% of Americans Risk Financial Struggles in Retirement for This Reason
My Comments: As a nation, we have three concurrent crises to deal with. The first and foremost is the pandemic. Nothing we accept as normal is going to return to normal until we find a way to control it. And that's complicated by the fact there is evidence it's mutating and becoming more easily spread …
Continue reading How To Prepare For The Greatest Wealth Transfer In History
My Comments: I'm not a prophet of doom. Never have been and haven't changed my spots. But I am a realist when it comes to investing in the markets. I've been in cash since March and missed most of the 3 month rally since then. Disappointing but... Some readers of these blog posts have laughed …
There's long been controversy about these two terms and how they should be applied. For millions of us already retired and for those of us with an expectation of eventual retirement, a basic understanding of their relationship might mean the difference between financial success and failure as the years pass. My objective with this post …
My Comments: I have no earthly idea if these guys are right or wrong. What I do know is that we're at war, we're losing, and the markets keep climbing as though their pants are on fire. There are clearly people who think it's different this time. I've been around those kinds of people before, …
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