Some of the best investing and personal finance articles from around the web.
If you’re nearing retirement, here’s what to do with your money now (Wall Street Journal). Times like this call for flexibility rather than rigid portfolio withdrawal rules.
Bear markets and bad decisions (Behavioral Investment). Spikes in volatility heighten the risk of getting in our own way.
You saved for retirement. Now comes the tricky part: spending your savings. (Barron’s via Fidelity). Ways to overcome one of the most challenging aspects of managing money in retirement.
Dead reckoning: investing lessons from the high seas (Mawer). How investing compares to sailing in tough conditions.
Buffer ETFs have worked for investors (so far) (Morningstar). See also, Buffered ETFs: Similar to Fixed Index Annuities, But Different
The two most dangerous words in investing (Behavioral Investment). “Once the extreme has been extinguished, we can happily carry out a post-mortem on the irrationality that led to it, typically ignoring the fact that for the extreme to have existed many people must have considered it to be justified at the time.”
Giving advice (Humble Dollar). Important estate planning issues to consider.
What happens to your brain when you retire? (NY Times). “The plan cannot be, ‘I worked so hard for so long that I’m going to take this long vacation and then I’m going to figure it out.’”
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