Talking Real Money - Investing Talk
Talking Real Money - Investing Talk
Don McDonald
Ep. 1973: One Size Fits Nobody
33 minutes Posted Sep 8, 2026 at 4:00 pm.
Elevator Music Guessing Game
Target-Date Fund Debate
Tuning Glide Paths
Kiyosaki’s Crash Predictions
Buffered ETFs Explored
Cash Buffers in Retirement
Podcast Disclosures
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Target-date funds promise a simple glide path from growth to safety—but people with the same retirement date can have completely different needs. Don and Tom compare Vanguard, Fidelity, and BlackRock funds, examine costs and stock-bond mixes, and explain why simple does not mean specific. Then they revisit decades of failed crash predictions from Rich Dad, Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki. Want more Money Music? Hear extended versions from Don’s fictional AI band, The Financial Fysicist, on A...