
On Retirement Income, Part 10: Flexible Spending, Can You DIG It!
Here’s how Round Table charts a middle course between the 4% Rule and the Fixed Percentage Rule.

Here’s how Round Table charts a middle course between the 4% Rule and the Fixed Percentage Rule.

Rising interest rates are good for most investors! Here’s why.

Falling interest rates are not truly a “tailwind” for bond investors. In fact, for most bond investors, rising rates are a good thing!

In Part 4, we get practical, demonstrating how discoveries from previous articles can be applied to a goals-based investment approach in retirement.

In investing, you can have safe present value OR safe future value, but not both!

I’m excited to announce the publication on Advisor Perspectives of the first article in a five-part series entitled “Long-Horizon Investing”!

The headline rate on I-Bonds has fallen below T-Bills, CDs, etc. Round Table presents a Kenny Rogers-inspired framework for considering your I-Bond options now.

The “4% Rule” and “Fixed Percentage Rule” are opposites…but both involve risk, including a scary beast call “sequence-of-returns” risk.

As “Bob and Fred’s Excellent Adventure” resumes, they hop in a time machine to try a completely opposite retirement income strategy. Does it wok better?

Let’s dig further into the facts and foibles of the 4% rule, as a launchpad for a broader discussion about retirement income.