Live long and prosper,” Leonard Nimoys character Spock, from the original Star Trek, liked to say. Investors—especially the media-bombarded impatient types of today—should take that adage to heart, perhaps substituting the word “Invest” for the word “Live.” In an era of second-by-second market updates readily available on cable TV and the Internet, investors seem to be having trouble with the concept of […]
Month: May 2005
Going international helps retirees
The biggest question facing a retiree who wants to live partly off of an investment portfolio is this: Will the portfolio sustain my withdrawal rate, and keep up with inflation, throughout my retirement? Retirees don’t want to run out of money before they die. But they also want a reasonable income that isn’t devastated by inflation. Much has been written […]
