It should be somewhere in the prospectus info. Here is an example for SCHB (scroll down to “portfolio” part):
https://www.schwabassetmanagement.com/products/schb#portfolio
For sure. Way more people in the US have difficulty caused by bad debt than there are people using it well as a tool. I’d never scoff at someone paying off a mortgage early, there are way worse money “mistakes” than that.
It’s easy to be right taking a retrospective view, and add-in recency...
Yes. The 100 year average rate-of-return is 10+% annually. This includes all of the nasty things that have happened to the economy during that time period.
It’s not a perfect, risk-free investment- but it has beaten everything else. My money says it will continue to do so.
*edit to add: this...
Individual brokerage account for the bridge money (55-59.5), Roth for 59.5-65. It’s not tax advantaged now, but it doesn’t show up as income later. IE, you’re “poor on paper” and health insurance is therefore way more affordable.
*This is most important if you don’t get health insurance via...
For sure, I agree- I didn’t intend for those two sentences to be connected. To add: if they don’t itemize, mortgage interest still factors into the equation, just on the other side of the ledger.
I would advise just about anyone to have a quality FA AND accountant and consult regularly with both.
If you itemize deductions, don’t forget to factor in mortgage interest into the equation. Regardless, paying off the mortgage early is almost certainly not the correct mathematical answer here (piece of mind not withstanding).
I will have to disagree with @SAJ-99 here a bit, I feel that a good...
The Packers have now had three games this season in which they didn’t punt a single time. They lost all three of those games.
I wonder if that’s ever happened before?
Boy, these NGO’s better hope Mike Lee stays in office. They are riding him all the way to the bank.
I’m waiting for one of these articles to have a Sarah McGlaughlin song playing in the background.