What Happens to Bondholders When a Company Goes Bankrupt?
Seniors and retirees like bond investments because they provide a steady income, diversify a stock portfolio, and are backed by the issuer’s financial strength. But things don’t always go as planned. Companies occasionally have financial problems and must file for bankruptcy as you well know.
Investors holding bonds in bankrupt [...]
Reverse mortgage as an effective retirement income source
How Retirees can convert a life insurance policy into cash or an income stream
How seniors who own municipal bonds can reduce taxes further with municipal bond swaps
Thinking about early retirement before you start collecting Social Security Benefits?
Doing so won’t reduce the benefit that you accrued before you stopped working—but it could produce a smaller benefit than your estimated benefits statement suggests. You should receive an estimated-benefits statement from the Social Security Administration each year. The benefits it projects assume that you continue [...]
If you’re using I-Bonds to protect yourself from inflation, you know it can get tricky.
Series I-Bonds are Treasury-backed bonds designed to help protect investors from inflation. Like most Treasury bonds, they appeal to investors seeking the security of an investment backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government. This, they are popular [...]
As one spouse of a married couple, you must choose when you will start collecting Social Security benefits. And when you do–whether you will receive Social Security benefits based on your own earnings or as a spouse’s entitlement based on his or her social security benefits. The ‘entitled spousal’ amount maximizes out at 50% of [...]
Supplemental Retirement Income Idea #1- Are you in pretty good health?
The woman that cleans my home is almost 60. I pay her $140 to clean my home. It takes her about 6 hours. If you did the same one day per week, that’s $560 — more than many retirees need to bridge the gap in [...]
Here are many retirement options to earn money yet few retirees have the required entrepreneurial gumption. Thus, they are at the effect of someone “giving them a retirement job.” Those days are over—there are no retirement jobs yet there are plenty of ways to make money. Here are a few retirement income ideas.
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Even with the bloom off the rose, investors still have interest in using real estate in IRAs. The interest and use of real estate in IRAs peaked with prices. Even as the real estate market cratered, real estate professionals with sagging commission income pushed IRA real estate (often mistyped or incorrectly searched as IRS real estate) [...]
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