230: What's the Ideal Asset Mix in Retirement? Is It 70/30? 60/40?
Retire With Purpose - The Retirement Podcast
Casey Weade
4.7 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
This week's retirement reading is from the Wall Street Journal, titled What's the Ideal Asset Mix in Retirement? Is It 70/30? 60/40?. Listen in as Casey Weade breaks down the article and shares what he thinks! Today's episode can also be accessed by visiting Howardbailey.com/230.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Retire with Purpose podcast, a show specifically designed to help pre-retirees and retirees maximize their financial confidence. |
| 0:14.4 | Casey Wheat is a certified financial planner and president of Howard Bailey Financial. |
| 0:18.3 | His newest book, Job Optional, is a Wall Street |
| 0:21.3 | Journal bestseller and is available now on Amazon and at Retirewithpurpose.com. He's your host on |
| 0:27.9 | retire with purpose. Hey, I'm Casey, and I believe in retirement strategies that are driven by |
| 0:34.0 | meaning and purpose. Join me this week and every week as we discuss thoughts and ideas |
| 0:40.3 | with some of today's foremost experts in the field of finance and retirement, as well as discussing |
| 0:46.2 | trending topics that could impact your bottom line. These discussions can help you make |
| 0:51.7 | better financial decisions so you can live the lifestyle you've always imagined and deserved. |
| 0:57.9 | Welcome to the show. |
| 1:00.1 | What's up, y'all? I am here today with Marshall Johnson. |
| 1:03.9 | Hey, hey. |
| 1:04.5 | Hey, and this is our opportunity to have a discussion around one of the four articles that we sent out as part of a weekend reading for a Tyre's email series. |
| 1:11.6 | We always like to pick out one of those four articles, highlight it here for you, go a little bit |
| 1:15.3 | more in depth, offer a more in-depth takeaway from herself. And if we have the opportunity, |
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| 1:28.4 | this article, you can find it in the show notes at retire with purpose.com. The article we're going to |
| 1:33.8 | be highlighting for you comes from none other than the Wall Street Journal. And it is titled, |
| 1:38.4 | what is the ideal asset mix in retirement? Is it 70, 30, 60, 40? What is it? Yeah, I like the question here because I think |
| 1:47.7 | oftentimes people go back to those rules of thumb and go, geez, you know, am I 60-40? Am I 50-50? |
| 1:53.5 | Am I 70-30? What works best? What should I be? But I think if you're focusing on those things, |
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