Retirement Planning

How Much Should Retirees Keep Invested in the Stock Market? Most people treat retirement stock allocation as a percentage question. Should I be at 60 percent stocks? 40? Something lower now that I’m retired? The percentage is the wrong place to start, and it’s why the question feels impossible to answer. A percentage doesn’t tell…

On January 27, 2022, I sat in a small plane at Raleigh Exec Jetport, about to take my first solo flight. Before I taxied to the runway, my flight instructor told me something that changed how I think about retirement planning. “If anything feels wrong, you don’t have to take off today. Remember: takeoff is…