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10th F-ing Mountain
Do you recommend bonds at all if someone is still 12-15 years out from retirement?
5 buckets; something like those 3. Probably more aggressive in bucket 3. A year's expenses in bank account. And the small barrel buried in backyard.
Josh , should the GMMa mutual fund always be held in a non-taxable Roth IRA?
I've held the Vanguard GNMA for 20 years on Bob Brinker's recommendation in the early 90's and is currently yielding 2.76% minus expense ratio depending if your in the investor or admiral shares. When yields began rising in 2016, he stopped recommending this fund however I still held mine and glad I did.
After recommending long term corporate and long term treasury bonds you said you were not worried about duration risk or interest rate risk. Why not?
Hmm…Too busy for the likes of me. I think I will stay with the three fund portfolio ala Bogleheads.
30/70 target retirement, includes tips
I use the bowling ball approach – VTSAX only.
Thanks Josh great to see the # s smashing them out brother.
Bucket 1 – VMMXX Money Market; Bucket 2 – BND Total Bond ETF; Bucket 3 – VTI Total Stock ETF. 3 funds and done
Josh I'm still staying with the two bar system that you talked about. It's easier to do and it's working for me. Thanks for your videos and your thoughts. Really appreciate it.
Yes this does make sense; definitely something like a textbook Morningstar approach.
I re-balanced on Friday.. I've never hit the perfect time before.. So we'll see if I continue to gloat tomorrow..:)
Most 3 bucket plans consider bucket #3 a long term bucket( 8to15 years depending on your risk tolerance) is there a need to be carrying bonds in bucket #3 (Wellington) seems that the portion in Wellington should be more into the total stock market index fund or even make that part of bucket #2 for more years of semi safe growth to replenish bucket #1whene necessary all while bucket # 3remains 100% equity's .Way to much overlapping between the 3 buckets
"And now for the rest of the story " how about a follow up video on the withdrawal strategy?
Hey Josh, so what is a sample withdrawal strategy from these funds if using 5%? Equal amounts from each, or biggest gain fund each year?
Love bucketing strategy videos…applicable to most of us