Are target-date retirement funds worth it? How aggressive should you be in the stock market after retirement? And is the market capitalization of S&P 500 overconcentrated? Just a few of many questions Carl Stuart helps answer. Plus one texter gets some inadvertently gets some marriage counseling and another nominates Carl for the Medal of Freedom.

The full transcript of this episode of Money Talk with Carl Stuart is available on the KUT & KUTX Studio website. The transcript is also available as subtitles or captions on some podcast apps.

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Carl Stuart takes on several topics from callers and texters, like the right ratios for your asset allocation, drawing down pre- and post-tax retirement accounts, Social Security Disability Income (SSDI), planning for the future even at an advanced age, and more.

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Carl Stuart talks to callers and texters about whether there are downsides to drawing a pension early, the relationship Federal Reserve interest rates have with U.S. “T-notes” or treasury bonds— and their effect on banking interest rates. He also talks about managing multiple houses as investments and other topics.

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Carl helps several callers and texters, like one trying to figure out what percentage of an inheritance to invest in markets and in her Austin home, what happens when the federal government requires minimum distributions from Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs), and weighing how long to wait to take Social Security benefits — and more.

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Carl Stuart takes your calls and texts on a lot of questions, including from the treasurer of a Home Owners Association about managing their reserve funds, a retiree who moved to the Austin area and wants advice on what to look for in a financial advisor here, and from an investor looking to push his luck on under-performing Russell small-cap funds.

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Carl Stuart takes your questions including why fees for advisors are set the way they are. He chats with someone over a question he’s never received in 30 years regarding the sale of a rental property years after the woman’s husband died. Plus questions about individual retirement accounts, college savings, and more.

The full transcript of this episode of Money Talk with Carl Stuart is available on the KUT & KUTX Studio website. The transcript is also available as subtitles or captions on some podcast apps.

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Carl Stuart takes a variety of questions, mainly texts, on how to minimize fees associated with making investments, why you should not see your home as an investment you’ll cash out of one day – because you have to live somewhere, learn about step-ups in value “basis points” when inheriting a property, and more on this week’s show.

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Carl Stuart answers your questions including the unemotional choice of robo-advisors, using expendable income to pay down a mortgage or buy stocks, and advice for a soon-to-be-teacher to hold on to savings during the lean months ahead of student teaching. Also, some popular questions of late on 529 college plans and protesting property tax appraisals.

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Carl Stuart answers a carryover question from the previous week on protesting property tax assessments with the help of informed listeners. He also takes on other complicated topics like how to position ranch land for their heirs or themselves, the possibility of combining pension, 401k, and 403b accounts into one for easy management, why Carl is shying away from U.S.-only stock ETFs for the near term, and other questions.

The full transcript of this episode of Money Talk with Carl Stuart is available on the KUT & KUTX Studio website. The transcript is also available as subtitles or captions on some podcast apps.

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Carl Stuart takes on some more nuanced topics like staying (a little) aggressive with your nest egg in retirement, tax strategies behind 1031 exchange real estate transactions, and survivor benefits when one spouse’s employer paid into Social Security and the other, a teacher, only paying into a pension (TRS).

The full transcript of this episode of Money Talk with Carl Stuart is available on the KUT & KUTX Studio website. The transcript is also available as subtitles or captions on some podcast apps.

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