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  • 5 days ago | marketwatch.com | Beth Pinsker

    Fix My PortfolioCan these experts talk you out of doing nothing to get your affairs in order before it’s too late? Published: April 17, 2025 at 9:00 a.m. ETPeople use every excuse in the book to avoid estate planning tasks. Photo: Getty Images/iStockWhen Jessica Tillery’s video of her paging through the organizational binder for estate planning called “The Deadbook” that she and her husband developed went viral, she thought she had a hit on her hands.

  • 1 week ago | morningstar.com | Beth Pinsker

    By Beth Pinsker While down markets are good for Roth conversions, market timing doesn't have the same effect on regular retirement withdrawals Waiting for a full bounce-back from the stock market after a downturn is hard when you know you have a pending transaction. If you're over the age of 73, at some point this calendar year you have to take money from tax-deferred accounts as required minimum distributions (RMDs).

  • 2 weeks ago | marketwatch.com | Beth Pinsker

    Beth Pinsker is a financial-planning columnist at MarketWatch. She has been a certified financial planner (CFP®) since 2018. Previously, she was a personal finance columnist and editor at Reuters, an editorial director at Fidelity and editor-in-chief ofWalletpop.com. Prior to covering personal finance, she was a film critic and entertainment business reporter, writing for Entertainment Weekly, The Dallas Morning News and many more publications. You can follow heron Twitter @bethpinsker.

  • 2 weeks ago | morningstar.com | Beth Pinsker

    By Beth Pinsker For those worried about retirement account balances, paying for groceries and the future in general I didn't know I was launching the personal finance site WalletPop.com into the black hole of a recession in the summer of 2008, but by the fall of that year, the country was in the thick of it and so was my staff along with it.

  • 2 weeks ago | marketwatch.com | Beth Pinsker

    Beth Pinsker is a financial-planning columnist at MarketWatch. She has been a certified financial planner (CFP®) since 2018. Previously, she was a personal finance columnist and editor at Reuters, an editorial director at Fidelity and editor-in-chief ofWalletpop.com. Prior to covering personal finance, she was a film critic and entertainment business reporter, writing for Entertainment Weekly, The Dallas Morning News and many more publications. You can follow heron Twitter @bethpinsker.

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22 Feb 24

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