What the heck are those? Those are the nine worst annual (calendar year) real (inflation-adjusted) returns for stocks since 1926 – over the past 92 years. HORRIBLE! UGLY! SCARY! The message of this post: Nest Eggers ALWAYS plan for the worst and adjust if it

We Nest Eggers think differently about retirement and live differently in retirement than most. We Nest Eggers focus on Enjoying More, NOW and helping others Enjoy More, NOW.

What do we do?

• At the start of every year, we pay ourselves our

I like looking at the Vanguard Style Box (I call it a Nine Box.) at the end of the year to get a snapshot of what outperformed and what underperformed the US stock market as a whole. Vanguard displays this matrix of its index (and

Fellow Nest Egg Team members: you should be happy with our team’s scoring for last calendar year ending December 31. Our team had a very good year. If you followed the recommendations in Nest Egg Care, you came out with handsome results. As in

I opened my Gift Envelope this morning, the one I gave to Patti and me on January 2, 1982 – 36 years ago. I emptied its contents on the kitchen island counter: $102,800!*

I followed the same investment plan as for the envelope