The Retirement Café

In my previous post, First Derivatives and Second Moments , I showed, with more math than should be tolerated on this blog, that a bond fund...

A common argument that bond funds and bond ladders are identical involves their duration. Duration, though precisely defined mathematically ...

I interrupt my current wanderings through Game Theory to re-address a question I have discussed in the past regarding whether a TIPS bond la...

A few thoughts to wrap up 2014 and then on to what I hope is a happy and prosperous New Year for us all. My last post on Game Theory and Soc...

In A Tiny Bit of Game Theory , I explained a few basics of this study of decision theory. The Social Security claiming decision pro...

I’m fascinated by game theory and I’ve lately been thinking about retirement finances through that lens. You may be familiar with three p...

OK, one more barnyard animal theme and I promise to move on. I spoke at the RIIA Fall Conference of retirement planners a few weeks back o...

In my last post, Are Social Security Benefits a Bond? , I pointed out that many retirees might not be willing to implement a very risky up...

In my last post, Are Social Security Benefits a Bond? , I pointed out that many retirees might not be willing to implement a very risky up...

The household balance sheet is one of many topics I've never quite gotten around to, but New Jersey retirement planner Michael Lonier r...

Jack Bogle has suggested in the past that Social Security benefits are like a bond and should be treated as such in his “age in bonds’ allo...

Powerpoint slides for the Retirement Income Industry Association webinar that I presented November 5, 2014 on Sequence of Returns Risk can ...