Organize retirement investment into three buckets

Retirees face a puzzle their working years never posed. The same corpus must pay next month's bills and also outlast the next two decades, and one portfolio cannot serve both jobs well.

Divide the corpus into three buckets. Keep two or three years of expenses in liquid instruments, hold the medium bucket in quality debt for the following five to seven years, and let the remainder grow in equity. Refill the near bucket with grains periodically.

A bucketed retirement investment structure lets you spend calmly through market swings, because the money you need soon never depends on tomorrow's index level.


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