Most financial planters recommend that you plan on living to age 95, and some are bumping that up to a hundred because people are living longer. But there's the majority of your portfolio that you won't need for five years, ten years, 20 years or may be even 30 years depending on your age. And over that long of im frame, you almost have to have that invested in stocks, or a good part of it invested in stocks. If you instead invest in cash or bonds, it's just not going to do it. All right, enough of me yammeringan has words of wisdom here. I'm tollin with you. Before we have to go.
Some of your stocks getting stung? Ours too. Tim Beyers and Robert "Bro" Brokamp offer some mindset help and historical perspective on this Saturday classroom. They discuss how you can be opportunistic in a down market, and how to think about your cash position.
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Stocks: SBUX, AMZN
Host: Tim Beyers Guest: Robert Brokamp Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineers: Rick Engdahl, Dan Boyd
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