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Claiming Social Security: Sooner or later?
How soon to claim Social Security benefits is essential in retirement planning. Steve Giles offers pros and cons to weigh.
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Retirement investing: Consider Roth
The Roth gives us another option for cash in our retirement arsenal, and it’s ours tax-free.
Money Talk Quiz: Why did they say that?
To see if you’ve been paying attention, test your knowledge on a sample of what Landaas & Company advisors have addressed recently in Money Talk articles and during the weekly Money Talk Podcast. (Winners receive wisdom and bragging rights.) […]
Allocation to optimize reward vs. risk
In a Money Talk Video from the 2020 Investment Outlook Seminar, Bob Landaas and Dave Sandstrom explain how investment mix is key to optimizing risk-adjusted returns. […]
Pessimism could send a contrary signal
By Kyle Tetting Economists at Yale University’s decades-long confidence surveys ask investors what they believe the probability is of a “catastrophic stock market crash in the U.S. in the next six months.” Individual investors were as pessimistic as ever in August, according to survey data. The most recent report shows little improvement. […]
Separating politics from portfolios
By Joel Dresang Economists from San Diego State University and the University of Kansas have studied the political partisan bias of mutual fund managers. What they found suggests investors are best served by separating their wallets from their ballots. […]
Challenging the rules on rules of thumb
By Kyle Tetting One area where rules of thumb miss the nuance of the individual investor is in ballparking how much retirement income investments can produce. […]