Retirement Watch Weekly
10 Medicare Questions Every Retiree and Pre-Retiree Should Know How to Answer
In my new Retirement Watch Spotlight Series, I’ll share my newest breakthrough strategies for protecting your assets and growing your portfolio, including how to prepare for the next market downturn. Click here now to learn more. […]
Bob’s Journal for 10/10/19
Notable Events That Grabbed My Attention This Week Here are some things I came across in the last week that are likely to interest you. You can select stocks better than artificial intelligence can. I was at the Philadelphia MoneyShow last week and listened to a talk by Tom Sosnoff of tastytrade, an online brokerage […]
How To Secure Your Digital Legacy and Estate Plan, Part II
In last week’s edition of Retirement Watch Weekly, I detailed steps to secure your digital legacy (see Part I here). Today, we’ll return to this discussion… Bottom line: To make your estate plan complete, you’ll want to compile an inventory of all your digital accounts and assets. The inventory should include the name of the […]
Bob’s Journal for 10/3/19
Some Things That Grabbed My Attention This Week It looks like we’re going to have a very interesting fourth quarter of 2019, just as we did in 2018. Here are a few developments from the last week that are relevant for us. Big news for individual investors came from the brokerage industry. Interactive Brokers announced […]
How To Secure Your Digital Legacy in Your Estate Plan
Almost all of us have digital assets that should be included in our estate plans. Technology and digital assets have become major parts of most of our lives, often more than we realize. A digital asset is any account, electronic device, or portion of a website that is password-protected. That covers a lot of ground. […]
Bob’s Journal for 9/26/19
Some Questions From Our Latest Conference Call Many Retirement Watch readers joined me to discuss retirement finance issues on a conference call that my publisher Roger Michalski hosted. If you missed the call or want to hear it again, a replay is available here. I took questions from listeners during the call, but we weren’t […]
Cut Your Prescription Medicine Out-of-Pocket Costs
Prescription drugs are the largest medical expense of most retirees, and their cost usually increases faster than inflation. Yet, many seniors know little about how to reduce their out-of-pocket medicine costs, and important changes are coming to Medicare in 2020. Original Medicare doesn’t cover most prescription drugs. You must take out a Part D Prescription […]
Recession: Weighing the Pluses and Minuses in the Data
Will central banks save the economy and markets from the bankers’ mistakes, the global trade conflicts and political events? I’ve said for some time that the greatest risk to the economy and markets is that the Fed might tighten monetary policy too much, and I said in 2018 that the tightening the Fed initiated in […]
