Getting the right hat doesn't sound like that much of an issue, does it? Well, we would argue it is a pretty big issue when Mother Nature is throwing the elements at you. Ultimately, it's wise to be ...

A recent academic study is perhaps the most comprehensive analysis yet of whether bucket approaches are superior to other retirement funding strategies. The idea behind bucket approaches is to divide ...

But as painful as it was, a year like 2018 also illustrates the point of the Bucket strategy. In years like 2017, when both stocks and bonds notched solid gains, a retiree would be fine with almost ...

The year 2019 wasn't much of a stress test for my bucket portfolios --or any other sane in-retirement portfolio strategy, for that matter. Instead, it was more like a layup. Stocks soared last year ...