Author: landaasco

  • Retirement investing: Where to begin

    Knowing how you plan to spend your retirement and what resources you already have can help you focus your investments, as Kyle Tetting explains in a MONEY TALK VIDEO. […]

  • Retirement saving: Which IRA?

    By Adam Baley Retirement savings accounts such as IRAs offer tax advantages that can boost your investment returns. Understanding the differences between traditional and Roth IRAs opens up planning opportunities and helps you find the right combination of investment vehicles for your retirement plan. […]

  • Investment insights via Snapshot

    Tom Pappenfus shows in a MONEY TALK VIDEO how a Morningstar portfolio snapshot can help track the mix of stocks and bonds that drives investment performance. […]

  • Watch bonds as rates rise

    As the Federal Reserve gets closer to eventually raising interest rates, Steve Giles says investors should keep an eye on the durations of their bond holdings. Steve explains how rising rates affect bonds in a MONEY TALK VIDEO. […]

  • Investment balance: Find and keep

    Finding balance between risk and return is key to successful long-term investing. As Art Rothschild explains in a MONEY TALK VIDEO, re-balancing also is needed. […]

  • Long-term care in retirement

    By Adam Baley While there is no risk-free way to pay for medical costs in retirement, investors need to be aware of such potential out-of-pocket expenses and their options for covering them. They need to have a plan in place. A key concern is for your spouse – trying to make sure that long-term care…

  • Stock valuations: Time to buy or sell?

    Puzzling over whether stocks are cheap or pricey requires examining multiple measures and putting them in context, as Dave Sandstrom explains in a MONEY TALK VIDEO. […]

  • Indexes: Low costs, less flexibility

    Index funds can provide low-cost exposure to market segments, but they also lock investors into those segments, as Kyle Tetting explains in a MONEY TALK VIDEO. […]

  • Getting the big stuff right

    Investors know to not put all their eggs in one basket. But where you put them makes a big difference, as Kyle Tetting explains in a MONEY TALK VIDEO. […]

  • Actively managing investment risk

    In considering active management vs. passive indexing, investors should take a look at how risk comes into play, Kyle Tetting suggests in a MONEY TALK VIDEO. […]