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This merger took place a number of years ago.

A very conservative approach. Actually far more conservative than using some of Hebeler's retirement/spreadsheets that have been around for years.

Thank you for this excellent tool and your continued work and modifications. Very much appreciated.

Used the Medicare website and found a number of Plans that cover my meds. A significant difference between the lowest and highest cost plan. I don't want to use either Walmart or CVS. Elimating those two is there any reason not to choose the lowest cost plan? After using the Medicare tool, why would...

Actually, I had some trouble with BoA site yesterday. Was ok today.

If you have clout in Chicago, you can make a fortune!!!!

Just learned that my village is raising water rates by 4.5%. Real estate taxes never seem to decrease. Bought a Dove bar the other day and it was clearly smaller than it used to be. Both baseball teams here raised ticket prices. Last year special bus to ball park was $3; this year $4. Could go on an...

If the situation is that the retiree does not need extra risk, this has to mean under present circumstances that the original AA was too risky and it might be that the investor would choose to not rebalance now. This would mean an explicit decision to change the AA plan to a lower equities allocati...

My take away from your post, Taylor, is that if you were a retiree who has seen his equity/fixed income ratio get slightly out of line as a result of recent maket action, you would not rebalance at this time especially if the retiree had sufficient assets so that he didn't need the extra risk involv...

I am retired. I am almost at the top of my bond/equity allocation band. If I go over, which seems almost certain, I will dollar cost average over a six month period or until I am 5% below my upper band with weekly equity buys.

Illinois does not tax distributions from IRA's, so there would not be any tax on a conversion.

You mean that Brinker is going to take a few minutes off from promoting his news letter to allow you to promote some new book. LOL