I've been noodling on a new way to think about retirement planning, and I'd love to share it with you. It's still a work in progress, but I think it offers a helpful, and hopefully memorable, visual ...

Retirement buckets are a way to organize your retirement savings. Let's explore how to divvy your savings into "buckets," and ...

Thanks to target date funds and some simple rules of thumb, picking a mix of stocks, bonds and cash is pretty straightforward while you’re still saving for retirement. According to conventional wisdom ...

Christine Benz explains how the Bucket approach can help retirees, the pushback against this strategy, and how a fourth bucket can help you in retirement. Dan Lefkovitz: In terms of your own work, ...