The Retirement Café

I've noticed lately that our country is highly polarized. No, I'm not referring to social media or cable news. I'm thinking ab...

I love models. I build and research models almost every day and have for almost two decades. For the past year, I have explored online retir...

The first image of a black hole. Credit: Event Horizon Telescope collaboration et al . What do relativity theory, quantum mechanics a...

A good many retirees seem to be enamored with the "Spend Interest and Dividends Only" strategy for spending down their retirement ...

Households who want to pay retirement expenses from an investment portfolio turn to spending rules like the 4% Rule, fixed percentage rule, ...

We have to understand both the nature of plans and the nature of retirement finance before we can build a successful retirement plan. [A v...

Retirement planning is a complex problem we can simplify by first focusing on what matters most. The key is getting the big decisions right....

Retirees are just now opening their 401( k ) statements after an ugly fourth quarter and raising the inevitable question spawned by every si...

This column was first posted at Forbes.com  on January 11th. I will continue to post here at The Retirement Cafe´and the columns that origi...

Retirement finance is my hobby. I find it has two great rewards: helping people who can’t find affordable retirement advice and learning new...

I am frequently asked how I manage my own retirement finances. Retired households can have dramatically different financial situations so my...

Do stock returns exhibit long-term mean reversion? That's an economist's way of asking if stocks get safer the longer we hold them. ...