Yesterday’s post got me thinking about inflation. As I said yesterday, “For me, the real risk of bonds is not providing adequate returns to keep up with inflation and taxes over long periods of time, a risk that is rarely talked about.” Inflation is direct reduction to your investment returns Read more…
We all love to bash the ole 9 to 5, the salt mines, the slog but work does provide several human needs that I think are often taken for granted. If taken for granted when thinking of retirement, the loss of work can create a vacuum in retirement that can Read more…
In a previous post (here) I addressed how much you need in assets to retire and how much you can safely withdraw per year to make sure that amount lasts you as long as your retirement lasts. That number, the safe withdrawal rate (SWR), I said was 4% for a Read more…
The primary theme of this blog is how to live off your retirement assets. But first one needs to accumulate enough assets to retire. So, for my inaugural post, I’ll address how to determine how much you need to retire. This can be quite a complex topic which I’ll come Read more…