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Awareness of retirement income
After years and years of accumulating assets, we’re about to begin years and years of drawing them down.
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Celebrating summer, raising sums
Join Landaas & Company as we support the Urban Ecology Center’s ongoing work to connect people with nature – and one another. […]
Moving the goal posts to full retirement
By Joel Dresang The trickier question raised by governments extending the retirement age is the non-financial quandary of when should we call it quits and begin the next phase of our lives? Semantically, it’s the difference between when can we retire and when should we. […]
Money Talk Quiz, May 2023
A multiple-choice quiz based on recent Money Talk Podcast discussions. Answers link to more resources. […]
Positive signs amid “wall of worry”
By Kyle Tetting It’s hard to argue with the year-to-date success of the vast majority of investment categories. As I write this on April 26, broad measures of stocks like the S&P 500 had gained more than 6% with only a few trading days left in April. Similarly, less volatile measures like bonds have added half as much or more. While the gains are encouraging, I am struck by how pessimistic many of the headlines remain. “Markets climb a wall of worry,” the saying goes, and that seems especially true now, though investing from a place of worry is tough.
Banking on additional uncertainty
By Kyle Tetting While the postmortem on Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse is still being written, there’s plenty of blame to go around. From bank executives and their advisors to the bank’s largest clients, to the Federal Reserve itself. There may be bits of blame for each, but the harsh reality is that such a high-profile bank failure has resulted in many questions about who or what is next. […]
Inoculations to protect against scams
Research suggests a way consumers can wise up to scams.