Category: 401k/403b/Roth/IRA

Presidential Election Cycles and the U.S. Stock Market

~ Thomas Gier
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In Retirement: Time To Abandon The 4% Rule??

~ Thomas Gier

Retirement: Time To Abandon The 4% Rule

With the prolonged era of historically low interest rates artificially created by central banks, retirement savers have been forced out of conservative assets like Treasury bonds, CDs, and high-grade bonds and pushed into riskier assets like growth stocks and junk bonds.

IRS Announces Higher 401k Contrib Limits

~ Thomas Gier

IRS Announces Higher 2019 Retirement Plan Contribution Limits For 401(k)s And More

Get ready to save more for retirement in 2019! The Treasury Department has announced inflation-adjusted figures for retirement account savings for 2019, and there are a lot of changes that will help savers stuff these accounts. After six years stuck at $5,500, the amount you can contribute to an Individual Retirement Account is being bumped up to $6,000 for 2019.

Mother of All Bubbles?

~ Thomas Gier

The ‘mother of all bubbles’ could blow up the economy if profits don’t improve, warns Blackstone strategist

By “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe,” wrote famed naturalist John Muir more than a century ago, referring to an epiphany he had while hiking in California’s Yosemite Valley.