A Financial Flop?
If a steep market decline forces someone to work longer and spend less in retirement, it might just be an asset allocation problem due to poor planning by the investor.
If a steep market decline forces someone to work longer and spend less in retirement, it might just be an asset allocation problem due to poor planning by the investor.
How can you be in complete control of your financial destiny when your stocks may have plummeted 40% during the last bear market?
I will be stepping away from earned income in the not-too-distant future and am expecting the next 25 years to be the best years of my life, in part, because I have a financial plan.
Turbulence and turmoil, destruction and despair. These are the headlines that greet us each day. If you didn’t know any better, you would think the world is ending soon.
The simplest approach to diversifying your stock market investments is to invest in one index fund that represents the entire stock market.
Is a total stock market index fund the best way to invest in the stock market, or are there benefits of including other dimensions of the market, including value, small-value, and international index funds inside your portfolio?