Source: Stock.Adobe.com If you are around 60 years old, you should read this You are not getting younger. None of us are. But your portfolio strategy may get old fast. Preventing that from happening may help you feel a lot younger. That starts with what I believe is the single biggest threat to retirement dreams
Retirement
In the previous article, we discussed how your retirement income style provides the personal context needed to help point you in the right direction regarding your retirement income approach. The Retirement Income Style Awareness™ (RISA) quantifies the decision-making factors you are implicitly using when you consider various retirement solutions. It then measures your style preferences
Swelling numbers of Americans these days are working in retirement, taking part-time jobs and launching businesses. And retirees are increasingly staying in their homes rather than moving to retirement communities. They’re also, however, breaking the mold in a potentially worrisome direction: embracing debt. The median total consumer debt of households headed by someone 65 or
So far this year, tiny Shake Shack is beating mighty McDonald’s on Wall Street. The fast food company’s shares have gained 87.67% YTD, while McDonald’s shares have gained 22.11%. Both companies are beating the market average—see table. Company/Index Current Price Price Gain YTD Qtrly Revenue Growth Profit Margin Shake Shack $85.24 87.67% 31.30% 2.96% McDonald’s 216.13 22.11*
Nine weeks ago, our fellow income investors were concerned about rising tariff tensions and falling stock prices. (Sound familiar?) So, in late May, we discussed seven dividend payers (yielding 6% on average) that wouldn’t go down if stocks-at-large kept dropping. The broader markets soon reversed, as they usually do when pessimism is running high. But