How to Keep Money Flowing During Retirement - Barrons.com

Reeling In the Yields

By KAREN HUBE | MORE ARTICLES BY AUTHOR

Despite rock-bottom interest rates, you can still earn investment income of 7%-plus per year. How to keep money flowing during retirement.

Not so long ago, you could build a reliable portfolio of income-producing investments with just a few simple steps: Buy some Treasuries, some corporate bonds and some munis, and then watch the money roll in. That kind of investing is a long-lost luxury. Yields on core bond holdings have been slim for three years in a row. And while 10-year Treasury yields, at 2%, are higher than they were a year ago, you aren’t going to do much better any time soon.

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Note this article does little to sufficiently warn the reader of a rising rate environment and how much their portfolio could be damaged in this unlikely but certainly possible environment.