Retirement buckets are a way to organize your retirement savings. Let's explore how to divvy your savings into "buckets," and ...

Life is full of milestones—and fortunately, for scheduling purposes, those milestones don't all happen at the exact same time. Think about the various savings goals you might have had across your life ...

During their working years, most folks put all their retirement savings in a bucket labeled “growth.” This bucket usually consists of investment portfolios of stocks, bonds, cash and perhaps some real ...

Managing retirement funds doesn’t end when you think you have enough set aside for your golden years. It’s important to monitor your money throughout, including finding ways to reduce your taxes.

Another alternative to the 4% rule is the dynamic spending plan. Instead of simply assuming you will spend 4% of your assets every year in retirement, this strategy involves setting an annual budget ...

Instead of keeping your retirement corpus in one mixed pot, the bucket approach splits it by when you will actually need the money.

The main goal of most investors is to garner enough money in the market to fund their retirement years. Yet, many investors are unsure of how to properly pull money out of their accounts once they’re ...

The drought continues for investors aiming to wring any type of yield from high-quality bonds, not to mention cash. Although the Federal Reserve raised short-term interest rates by 0.25% in 2015--and ...

Here’s a different kind of “bucket list” for you. It’s not exactly the things you want to do, but it may be related to them. What it does do, however, is make it easier for you to manage your ...

Note: Some of the holdings in this portfolio have been updated to reflect the closing of Vanguard Dividend Growth to new investors. The current version is available here. The current low-yield ...

The origins of the phrase are often attributed to screenwriter Justin Zackham, while writing “The Bucket List” script, from a 2007 movie starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman as two terminally ...