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After hearing "Buy when there's blood in the streets!" talk among investors over the years my question is for a index fund investor that's already fully invested without tons of cash laying around how could one actually "buy" any decent quantity of stocks upon a crash?

Help me decide an asset allocation for 60yr old relative.

$210k currently in cash

Looking to withdrawl $1,500/mo starting at age 70.

Looking to set an asset allocation to stocks/bonds/cash

Bogleheads please help me.

I appreciate all the responses. To answer questions/clarify: We do like our home We have a 1 yr old that we'd ideally like in a different school district when he starts school at age 5. Other option we considered was if the market were to drop say 20% or 30% anytime in the next 4 years we could then...

Because we are self employed getting a mortgage/refi is tough. Renting a comparable is around $3.5k per month.

I'm asking for advice based on a purely financial point of view for my specific rent vs own situation. Current breakdown of assets: $700,000 - home completely paid off (no mortgage) $20,000 - roth and traditional iras $70,000 - 401k's $130,000 - taxable acct vanguard $50,000 - liquid cash reserves T...

Kyle bass has made some exact calls regarding real estate in 08-09 and greece more recently. I think it would be dumb to ignore his views. I'm not talking about Jim Cramer here. Staying the course is great but if there's a crisis a year or two before you need your retirement funds you are going to b...

Hi Bogleheads, I'm wondering how many of you structure your portfolios based on macro economic issues like the us debt crisis. Wondering if any of you follow Kyle Bass at all or have read his most recent letter to investors. It paints an ugly picture for what is yet to come in the US and if he is ri...

Ok, I still have the same question on liquidating. Thanks

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Thanks for all the feedback. Anymore would be appreciated. Looking into revising the plan a bit based on your feedback.

I am looking into purchasing a bond ETF with a $100k minimum for institutional shares because of the lower expense ratio. My question is, if at a certain point thereafter I wanted to liquidate lets say $20k and my position in the ETF fell below the minimum is that okay? Or would I have to keep a min...

Hi Bogleheads, I have been reading this forum for a while and decided to participate. I am 28yrs old with $300k saved up to use for investment purposes. I am a small business owner and my business income is paying all of my bills, I am trying to save 30%-50% of my income every month. For now I will ...