Bombproof Your Retirement Portfolio Now

Record-setting markets got you down? You're not alone. Anyone who remembers the dot-com days and the 2008 debacle rightly would be concerned. Trouble is, we want the markets to go higher. It's how your retirement portfolio grows, after all. Some of it is income from dividends and bonds, but a lot of the gains we expect from the markets come from plain old appreciation — higher stock prices. That can feel like thin ice after a few years. We don't want a stiff correction, and much less a bear ...