But as painful as it was, a year like 2018 also illustrates the point of the Bucket strategy. In years like 2017, when both stocks and bonds notched solid gains, a retiree would be fine with almost ...

The year 2019 wasn't much of a stress test for my bucket portfolios --or any other sane in-retirement portfolio strategy, for that matter. Instead, it was more like a layup. Stocks soared last year ...

A recent academic study is perhaps the most comprehensive analysis yet of whether bucket approaches are superior to other retirement funding strategies. The idea behind bucket approaches is to divide ...