Tori Dunlap

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Financial Feminist · 298. Ask Tori: Investing and Retirement · 8 Sep 2026 podcast

I'll give you the example of my parents.

My parents are in their early 60s.

And for the past couple of years, what they've been doing is slowly taking out money from their retirement accounts and from their general brokerage account, which, as a reminder, is not a retirement focused account, but is an investing account.

And they've been putting it in what's called a CD ladder.

What is a CD ladder?

It is various CDs with various

Terms like year amounts.

So for instance, they might have one CD that matures, for instance, 10 years from now.

And then they'll have another CD that matures eight years from now, and then five, and then four, and then two, and then one.

So that they're slowly getting that money as they will need it.

You are not taking all of your money out of your investing accounts for retirement.

once.

One, that's gonna be a tax nightmare.

And two, the point is you want to allow your money to continue to grow, the money you don't need yet, right?

So if you spend, let's say, $50,000 a year, if your expenses every year are $50,000, maybe the time

You're thinking about retirement, right?

And those maybe five years before, you're slowly starting to pull out that money.

So, you know, you might take out if we're retiring at 65, at 58, you might take out 50K.

And then when you're 59, you might take out another 50K and then another 50K, right?

You're not taking out this whole lump sum of money at one time, but you're moving it instead to places where you're

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