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Showing Original Post only (View all)Need advice: should we ride out fluctuations in the market [View all]
now, in view of a pending recession? (We've lost quite a bit in an index fund over the last 2 months.)
Or transfer money to a money market fund?
Thanks!
- Retired & worried
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My most recent rate was 2.2% but with the rates being raised it should be ihgher...
brush
Dec 2018
#32
I agree with you on equities vs. bonds and CDs. My problem is with comparing the yield of
progree
Dec 2018
#38
Yeah, I get Social Security too and income from a charitable gift annuity, so I know what you mean.
progree
Dec 2018
#40
Agree with the previous post, after retirement one should be out of anything risky anyway.
Canoe52
Dec 2018
#9
Short term treasury bills are where the world's wealthy put money for safety.
empedocles
Dec 2018
#26
True, so far this year, bond funds haven't been any safe haven -- VBMFX down 1.9% YTD
progree
Dec 2018
#24
Good point. I remember some of that - back in like 1981 the financial seminar teacher
progree
Dec 2018
#28
With the inversion of the treasury yield curve, short-term bonds would be safer.....
lastlib
Dec 2018
#14
Actually I think we were both right to some extent, and both wrong to some extent
progree
Dec 2018
#20