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Retirees, Check Your Withholding Now Before an Unexpected Tax Bill Arrives

Retirees, Check Your Withholding Now Before an Unexpected Tax Bill Arrives

Social Security, pensions, and withdrawals may affect your total tax bill. Here's how.

The Motley Fool
When Keeping Your Options Open Is Riskier Than Making A Commitment: Kitces & Carl 201

When Keeping Your Options Open Is Riskier Than Making A Commitment: Kitces & Carl 201

One can argue that financial planning is, at its core, about navigating different choices and trade-offs. Some decisions can have outsized practical, financial, and emotional impacts, such as when to retire, quit a job, or start a business. Succeeding and failing will each bring high consequences, and many people opt to “keep their options open”… […]

Michael Kitces
Are Higher Interest Rates Good for Retirees? Bond Income Trade-Offs

Are Higher Interest Rates Good for Retirees? Bond Income Trade-Offs

By Wes Moss, originally published at Capital Investment Advisors. Higher interest rates may sting borrowers and cause existing bond prices to fall. But for retirees and near-retirees, they may also restore something that had been missing for years: the ability for the conservative side of a portfolio to generate potentially meaningful income. For more than […]

Wes Moss