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Bob Stowe | Mar 16, 2016

Investing For Retirement Income: Straw, Sticks, or Bricks? Part 3

Retirement Planning

Part III: Total-Return Investing for Solid Construction

 

As we’ve discussed in the first two parts of this three-part series, we do not recommend turning to

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Bob Stowe | Mar 10, 2016

Investing for Retirement Income: Straw, Sticks, or Bricks? Part 2

Retirement Planning

Part II: High-Yield Bonds – Sticks and Stones Can Break You

 

In Part I of our three-part series on investing for retirement income in low-rate environments

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Bob Stowe | Mar 2, 2016

Investing for Retirement Income: Straw, Sticks or Bricks?

Retirement Planning

Part I: Dividend-Yielding Stocks – A Straw Strategy

If ever there were an appropriate analogy for how to invest for retirement, it would be the classic fable

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Bob Stowe | Feb 18, 2016

The Multi-Hat Advisor Trick

Fiduciary

We try hard to make a habit of writing our own blog material, yet a fellow fee-only planner from North Carolina, Karen Keatley, wrote a great piece that we

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Bob Stowe | Feb 10, 2016

Good Advice

Fiduciary
Financial Planning

In today’s climate of one-page financial plans, bargain-basement fund pricing and automated investment tools, you may wonder whether you still need a living

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Bob Stowe | Feb 3, 2016

Is There a 'Safe' Withdraw Rate?

Retirement Planning

No. We don’t use the safe withdrawal rate. I do apply it as a reasonability check to your tailor made retirement solution, but it is not a point of our

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Bob Stowe | Jan 13, 2016

What is Happening in the Market? The Media Does Not Have the Answer

As the popular media scrambles to explain the unexplainable – what is going on in the markets at the moment and how long it’s going to last – we thought we’d

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Bob Stowe | Jan 6, 2016

Our Biggest Financial Challenges are often Self-Inflicted

Investor Behavior

In many respects, people can be their own worst enemies in their quest for financial security. When you consider that our lives are nothing more than a

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Bob Stowe | Dec 9, 2015

You, Your Financial Well-Being and the Federal Reserve

Other

Since December 2008, the U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed) has held the federal funds rate at zero percent, seeking to bolster an ailing economy in the aftermath

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Bob Stowe | Nov 25, 2015

A Meaningful Message For Thanksgiving (2015)

Subject: A Thanksgiving Ode to the Turkey

Whether you and your loved ones gather for a traditional feast or more exotic fare, it’s hard to think about

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