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To: bentway who wrote (328939)	3/14/2007 11:17:09 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1575611

"What if you retired at 65 with only stocks as your investment in 1929?" Or from the mid to late 1960s through the early 1980s. The question for almost two decades was "when will the DOW top 1000?".

To: bentway who wrote (328939)	3/15/2007 8:49:42 AM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575611

No we don't. Check into the target date retirement funds I keep talking about. By the time you reach retirement, those fund are invested about 1/3 in cash, 1/3 in bonds, and 1/3 in stocks, in other words, the ideal retirement allocation for making withdrawals. So the point is that Treasuries alone are a bad idea. Target date retirement funds such as the Freedom funds that Fidelity has and the Target Retirement funds Vanguard has are exactly how our social security funds should be invested.