Month: February 2023

This article is part of the Retirement Financial Life Equation (RFLE). It was initially published on February 8, 2023, and updated in February 2026. As I update this in early 2026, I’m nine years into retirement and increasingly focused on ensuring my portfolio can maintain purchasing power over a 25-30-year retirement horizon. The inflation spike … Read more

This article is part of the Retirement Financial Life Equation (RFLE) series. It was initially published on February 1, 2023, and updated in February 2026. The previous articles in this series discussed why retirees might want to own bonds and whether individual bonds might be preferable to bond funds. This article examines a unique category … Read more