Retirement Watch Weekly
Should You Wait to Buy an Annuity?
In the pursuit of guaranteed lifetime income and replacements for employer pensions, many people are looking at annuities. Economists recommend them, and I’ve advised that many people put a portion of their nest eggs into annuities. But, since interest rates are low, annuity payouts are lower than they were a few years ago. Does it […]
December 2012
December 21, 2012 04:55 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review I’m looking forward to the upcoming holidays and hope you are, too. Absent some significant event, I plan to take next week off. There’s won’t be a weekly Retirement Money Memo. I’ll be back the following week to start off the new year. Another […]
Paying for Long-Term Care
There are a lot of different kinds of long-term care and different ways of paying for it. Many people simply don’t understand how high the potential cost is or the different ways of planning to pay for it. This slideshow from Bloomberg does a good job of running through the different care options, how much […]
Your Favorite Investment and Stock Market Valuation Indicator
Investors continue to seek the economic or market indicator that tells them when to buy and sell stocks. I spend some time in my book Invest Like a Fox…Not Like a Hedgehog discussing this phenomenon and why it doesn’t work. At a minimum, you need to look at multiple indicators, not only one data point. […]
How to Be a Caregiver
There are a lot of guides for the many caregivers out there. Unfortunately, in every family there’s at least one person who’s going to spend a lot of time caring for a parent or spouse who can’t fully care for himself or herself. Here’s a unique take on the subject. The link is to a […]
Does Technical Trading Work?
An interesting profile appeared over the holidays in both Bloomberg and The Washington Post of Tom DeMark. He’s a little-known head of a research firm that provides technical trading data to big investors, such as hedge fund SAC Capital. DeMark’s expertise is known as technical trading. Technical trading ignores fundamentals. Instead, trades are based on […]
Do Recessions Increase Life Expectancy?
I always urge people to examine the data. Don’t adopt a theory that makes sense until you’ve examined the data and seen the theory stand up. There are many misconceptions about finance and investing that exist because people don’t examine the data. They accept a theory that makes sense, even when the data contradict it. […]
How to Age Well
Baby Boomers are the most depressed adult age group in the country, says an article in The Atlantic. The article focuses on women, but what it says applies to men, though it says women have more depression thanmen. Baby Boomers women shouldn’t be depressed, because they’ve been a special generation. Women, in particular, had more […]
