Rick Ferri recently interviewed me for the Bogleheads on Investing podcast, to discuss my book After the Death of Your Spouse: Next Financial Steps for ...

Regardless of what is currently happening in the market, what you think about it and how you feel about it is going to be influenced by your own personal ...

One question I receive regularly is why most financial planners don’t offer an option for an engagement that consists of just a one-hour paid phone call, to ...

Right now, there is no regulation of the term “financial advisor.” Essentially anybody (insurance agents, brokers, etc.) can refer to themselves as a ...

First a brief announcement: The 2025 edition of Social Security Made Simple is now available. Relative to the previous (2022) edition, there are of course ...

If you’ve read much about retirement planning, you’ve encountered the concept of sequence of returns risk, which is the idea that the order of returns your ...

A reader writes in, asking:“This might be a question other people have too, but it’s certainly on my mind: you’ve spoken a lot about social security bridges ...

A reader writes in, asking: “Could you please clarify Morningstar’s new findings from Jason Kephart that delaying social security until age 70 while using ...

A reader writes in, asking: “I recently learned about the ‘core allocation’ ETFs from iShares. I haven’t seen these discussed before on Bogleheads or ...

For years I’ve been of the opinion that it’s a good idea not to check your investment accounts very often, as it leads many people to participate in one ...