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This Friday Q&A covers real-world money decisions with real consequences, including how to invest life-insurance proceeds after a spouse’s death, why dividend-and-leverage strategies promoted online are fundamentally dangerous, and how inherited IRA rules actually work under the ...  Show more

Retirement income doesn’t have to mean hoarding assets or obsessing over leaving an inheritance. In this episode of Talking Real Money, Don and Tom dig into a topic that still makes many investors flinch: reverse mortgages. Using recent research and real-world planning logic, the ...  Show more

Hearing pundits talk about real estate over the last year, you’d think the sky had fallen several times over.  Don’t get me wrong. The real estate sector has seen its share of challenges over the last year. Home prices in some markets have fallen after years of skyrocketing at un ...  Show more

How risk-tolerant are you? From 401k’s to the stock market, take our handy quiz and follow your gut when it comes to investments. Your instincts can help get you where you want to be, financially, in the long run. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwo ...  Show more

The average investor doesn’t understand the fundamentals of the markets, and so they buy because the market is going up…and everyone else is doing it. Today’s guest says the average investor is blinded by market euphoria.  Bert Dohmen, the publisher of the Wellington Letter, says ...  Show more

Most people think of investing as any situation where you put down money with the expectation of getting a return on your money. Unfortunately, what many people think of as investing is actually gambling. For years, most people invested in traditional stocks and bonds. Stocks and ...  Show more