When to Use Bonds
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
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🗓️ 13 November 2018
⏱️ 7 minutes
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You're saving and saving and saving for retirement. Most of it is in stocks...but what about bonds? Do you need them and what's the best way to start mixing them in? That's what we chatted about with Dee from Seattle on the latest bonus call. Have a money question? Email me here. “Better Off” is sponsored by Betterment. We love feedback so please leave us a rating or review in Apple Podcasts. "Better Off" theme music is by Joel Goodman, www.joelgoodman.com. Connect with me at these places for all my content: http://www.jillonmoney.com/ https://twitter.com/jillonmoney https://www.facebook.com/JillonMoney https://www.instagram.com/jillonmoney/ https://www.youtube.com/c/JillSchlesinger https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillonmoney/ http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/jill-on-money https://apple.co/2pmVi50
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Better Off Bonus Call of the Week. We're sponsored by Betterment, the largest independent |
| 0:09.0 | online financial advisor. You know, coming towards the end of the year year you might have a lot of year-end |
| 0:13.5 | financial planning questions, tax questions, just shoot us an email we can help you out. |
| 0:18.4 | It's so easy. Ask Jill at better off podcast.com. Ask Jill at better off podcast.com. Ask Jill at better off podcast. |
| 0:24.0 | That's what D from Seattle did. |
| 0:27.0 | How are you today? |
| 0:28.0 | I'm fabulous and you today? |
| 0:30.0 | I'm great. |
| 0:31.0 | What can I do for you, ma'am? |
| 0:32.0 | My husband and I, we have about a million in in stocks in the |
| 0:35.4 | S&P we have 500 in a money market we have 500 in a money market we have 500 in a money market, 100,000 CDs. |
| 0:45.2 | We have about a million dollars in real estate. |
| 0:48.8 | And we have been talking to our financial consultant, |
| 0:56.0 | and she has recommended to take the $500,000 |
| 1:01.3 | from the money market and put it into a managed bond fund. |
| 1:05.0 | We're pretty light in bonds, we realize that. It wasn't our intention to get into |
| 1:12.1 | bonds and now the market's just gone like all crazy. |
| 1:15.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:16.2 | I like that that's the absolute best way to describe it. |
| 1:21.3 | The market's gone all crazy. So the million dollars in stocks is |
| 1:26.4 | that in individual stocks or is that in index funds? What is the nature of the stock position? Some of it is individual |
| 1:36.8 | stock and some of it is in index funds. Okay and you guys manage that yourselves or is this person this |
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