The obvious answer is that it depends on your financial situation, age, net worth and risk tolerance. I am trying to decide on the right amount of cash I should hold.
I found this through internet search on this topic:

“According to the U.S. Trust Survey of Affluent Americans, investors with over $3 million in investable assets typically hold around 15% of their portfolios in cash and cash equivalents. However, the amount of cash an investor holds can vary depending on their age and net worth:

AN ANCIENT FINANCIAL concept is gaining newfound popularity.
In his book Politics, Aristotle related a story about a fellow philosopher named Thales, who lived about 2,600 years ago. One winter, Thales made a prediction about the coming olive harvest. He felt that it was going to be a strong year. But because recent harvests had been weak, most people disagreed with him. To Thales, this meant opportunity. He approached the owners of olive presses in his town with a proposition.

It’s over. I’m done with it. Done with what? Ruminating about how well I negotiated for the new car? Nope. Leaving the cell phone in that overpriced restaurant? Uh-uh. Then what is it I’m done with? Well, after months of deliberation with Alberta and our son Ryan (and with myself), I’ve decided to hang on to the family’s small residential rental properties rather than sell. Tax considerations trumped quality of life. There, I said it, as preposterous as it may sound.

As autumn is upon us, and I observe my nice neighbors toil for hours on end, they are raking, blowing, vacuuming, etc., the millions of once beautiful leaves, alas, they are no longer attractive, just an enormous annoyance for the majority. I submit, as a former leaf raker, the following.
When investing, simpler is generally the correct option for millions of people not named “Buffett”, to wit, a 3 or even 2 fund portfolio would outperform a vast majority of more complicated accounts,

THE NEIGHBORING TOWNS of Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Mexico, figure prominently in the work of Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, who—together with a colleague—won this year’s Nobel Prize in economics.
In their book Why Nations Fail, Acemoglu and Robinson explain that these two border towns are identical in almost every way—from demographics to geography to climate. But they differ in one key respect: Nogales on the American side of the border is prosperous, while its southern neighbor is not.

I am niece and POA for my aunt who will turn 97 in November.  I am also her sole beneficiary.  She is in a nearby assisted living facility which costs around 7200 per month. Social security, two RMD’s,  an employer created annuity and bank interest provide income. Has Medicare, Plan G secondary and Well Care Part D. I purchase personal supplies for her;  write monthly checks to charities she wants to support. She had no children.

Hi, looking for thoughts on managed payout funds. I’ve been test driving one for a few years and it seems to be doing a good job so far. T Rowe Price retirement income fund 2020. I made an initial investment and have been receiving a monthly payment in the 4.5% range (based on the 1 year return) and the balance seems to be growing about 5% a year as well with no further contributions. The fee is a tad high (.53) but other than that it seems to perform well so far.

I just made my annual trip to the bank to cash matured US savings bonds I purchased through payroll deduction thirty years ago. 
In the olden days it was simple – fill out a form at work and when you accumulated the purchase price for the bond value you designated, you received a bond in the mail. Because of the way pay periods worked, I received 13 a year.
When I mentioned to the young teller I had accumulated the bonds through payroll deductions she didn’t understand,

As we enter retirement I’ve been wondering if we should change our investing choices.
Our situation is that we will have enough income from two SS accounts and three pensions to cover our expenses. None of which have cola’s attached.
Do the majority of you HD readers in retirement invest in dividend paying stocks/ETFs//funds for additional income? Or do you stay invested in the overall stock market to accumulate more and then sell it to proceed income when needed?

FOR YEARS, THERE’S been growing concern about the top-heavy nature of the U.S. market. Today, just 10 stocks account for 35% of the S&P 500’s total value. And while the largest technology stocks—dubbed the Magnificent Seven—have done exceedingly well in recent years, their extreme outperformance is making people nervous.
Observers are comparing today’s market to past periods when certain groups of stocks appeared similarly flawless. Consider the late 1990s, when companies such as General Electric dominated the market.

BENJAMIN GRAHAM was Warren Buffett’s teacher and mentor. He also ran an investment fund that specialized in uncovering demonstrably undervalued stocks.
One day in 1926, Graham was at his desk, reading through a government report on railroads, when he noticed a potentially important footnote. It referenced assets held by a number of oil pipeline companies. But there wasn’t a lot of detail, so Graham boarded a train to Washington and found his way to the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC),

When investors talk about dollar-cost averaging, they often confuse two strategies—one widely used, the other more controversial.
Do you regularly add new savings to your investment portfolio? During our working years, many of us do that. When we get our paycheck, we slice off a few dollars and toss them into our employer’s 401(k) or 403(b). We might call this dollar-cost averaging (DCA), but it’s less a strategy we consciously adopt and more a function of how we get paid.

I’m getting ready to take my annual RMD (minus QCDs), which seems like a good time to take a look at re-balancing my portfolio. My stock percentage has crept up from 50% to 53%, and while I’ll take my RMD from my stock funds, I’m not going to spend it, so it will be going into Total International (VTIAX) and Total US (VTSAX) funds in taxable.
About 10% of my funds are in a CD ladder and a money market fund in taxable.

IS IT WORTH OWNING international stocks? There’s far from universal agreement. The traditional argument for investing outside the U.S. is straightforward: diversification—since domestic and international stocks don’t move in lockstep, and sometimes diverge significantly.
At the same time, however, international stocks have lagged behind their U.S. counterparts for so many years that it’s been trying the patience of even the most tenacious investors. Domestic stocks have outpaced international stocks in eight of the past 10 years.

When I moved from London to New York City in 1986, I didn’t have a job lined up. But after a panicked search, I landed a position at Forbes magazine—as a so-called reporter, the title given to lowly fact-checkers. Almost two years later, I escaped that drudgery when I was promoted to staff writer and assigned the mutual-funds beat.
At the time, the fund world was a cesspool of dubious practices and misinformation, which was bad for investors but good for curious journalists.