Jesse Cramer created The Best Interest to explain personal finance and investing in simple terms. His writing has been featured by CNBC, MSN, The Motley Fool, and other national publications. He resides in Rochester, NY with his wife and their dog, where he works in wealth management. Follow Jesse on Twitter: @BestInterest_JC
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Do you (or your advisor) have skill at making macroeconomic bets? If not, then home-country bias is an unrewarded active risk.
By electing this withholding choice, you are using qualified Roth IRA dollars to pay your taxes. That could probably be the end of the article right there.
We are asking the wrong question. “Can we afford it?” focuses on a sticker price. And we’re missing the bigger issue.
Some people want a pilot. Others want a flight instructor. It’s clear that one is more risky, with worse results.
Sequence of returns risk is a great topic for retirement. Here’s a simple example to show you how it works.