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Strategies & Market Trends : Dividend investing for retirement -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sm1th who wrote (29977)	11/4/2018 4:50:59 PM
From: JimisJim	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34328

It's typically cheaper to go directly to the insurance companies rather than use an exchange -- at least here in CA -- unless you qualify for a subsidy, which we are not remotely close with our income in retirement exceeding our income when we were both working full time -- and it's growing about 8%/yr. (total return) so far... knock on wood -- so we're back to dripping most of our IRA stuff, or taking the cash and adding to specific stocks or new positions/diversifying... but still, my wife's pension alone disqualifies us for any subsidy, let alone my income from RE and now ng leases and ag land back east, mostly...