When it comes to investing, almost everyone wants to snag the next big winner. Stories abound of investors getting in early and benefiting from explosive growth, sometimes building their fortunes on a single win alone. However, for every story of triumph, there are dozens, if not hundreds, of cautionary tales of investors who placed big […]
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You work to earn a paycheck, and one of the scariest things about retirement is that you stop collecting one. But you don’t have to with the ‘Pay Yourself’ rule of retirement spending, and it doesn’t mean buying a complicated annuity or relying on Social Security and a pension for that recurring biweekly or monthly
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No one is perfect. We don’t always get it right on the first try — on the golf course or in retirement. According to one legend, Canadian golfer David Bernard Mulligan once hit a bad tee shot, re-teed and jokingly called it a “correction shot.” His friends embraced the term, and the “mulligan” was born.
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A federal appeals court on Friday said it was pausing its consideration of legal challenges against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s climate regulations until the Wall Street regulator decides whether it plans either to change them or to defend them in court, court papers showed. Under former President Joe Biden, the SEC adopted rules
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Spending your hard-earned cash in retirement can be a scary proposition. Without a paycheck coming in, it’s easy to worry about running out of money. Add volatility in the stock market at any given time, and this is what nightmares are made of for retirees. But fears of overspending in retirement don’t have to keep
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Bust out the record collection. Not only might it be worth something, there’s a valuable retirement lesson in there, too. Since the launch of Record Store Day in 2008, vinyl has made a serious comeback. How big? In 2022, vinyl outsold CDs for the first time since 1987, racking up more than $1 billion in
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A listener shares how he dropped sports betting and picked up investing, while another wants to know how to allocate a portfolio as a Rule Breaker. In this podcast, Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner brings back Motley Fool Chief Investment Officer Andy Cross to discuss tools for tracking your portfolio against the S&P 500, talk
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Marriage may be the union of two people becoming one — but in retirement, that math doesn’t work. In this instance, one becomes two. That’s because every financial decision you make with your retirement savings doesn’t just affect you. It affects your spouse, too. And the two of you likely won’t share the same timeline,
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Your asset allocation may be the most important decision you make as an investor. In fact, studies have found that asset allocation determines over 90% of the variations in portfolio returns. In other words, get your asset allocation right, and the rest is largely semantics. Asset allocation refers to how your investment funds are spread
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Ben Affleck. He starred in Good Will Hunting with Matt Damon. Matt Damon starred in Ocean’s Eleven with Julia Roberts. Julia Roberts starred in Flatliners with … Kevin Bacon! That puts Ben Affleck at a three in the parlor game “six degrees of Kevin Bacon,” which challenges you to link any actor to Kevin Bacon
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