Can Anyone suggest an easy to use retirement calculator via the web? Any advice on the Vanguard REIT fund?

If you look at the distribution of bonds in this fund, you will see most of the bonds have a maturity less than 10 years. The movement of the 5 yield treasury note would correlate better with this...

Vanguard is required to withhold 20% (and send to the IRS, as a down payment on taxes, (see below)) if you are under 59 1/2 years old. The IRS will collect income taxes on any earnings (estimate...

When you invested this money, did you not realize the stock market had it's ups & downs?? Did you really think the stock market moved only one way, steadily upward?? If you are a long ...

It is a "fund-of-funds" set up to own 80% stocks and 20% bonds. That allocation is more diversified than most funds out there, and diversification in long term investing is generally a g...

It's impossible to answer that question without knowing more about your timeframe and risk tolerance.

It is ok for that purpose, provided you do not put all of your assets into it. No more than 25%. The reason is that the fund is heavily weighted towards large cap U S stocks. You need to be more...

You could just go to just about any brokerage to buy that fund. But probably cheaper or nothing to just go straight to Vanguard directly. But you can always go to a discount brokerage and buy and...

Its depends on when you need the money and where its being held IE IRA, taxable account. Of the bond funds I like the ultra low tax funds, if this is long term retirement money I still like stocks...