What is different in your investing life as you approach retirement? Not much. You don't need to be doing something dramatically different than a 25-year-old. The mix may be different but the investments will be the same.
The ability to adjust spending has a much larger effect than asset allocation or even initial withdrawal percentage when it comes to retirement success.
Here's an update on how PoF is making early retirement possible. Our conversation includes managing part-time work, safe withdrawal rates, being debt free and listener questions.
A physician and his stay-at-home wife are approaching retirement, and not quite sure how to spend their assets.
There are many ways to spend your nest egg, but they generally fall into a continuum between the "probability-based" school of thought and the "safety-first" school of thought.
In some respects, being in the accumulation phase of life is easy. But once you retire, you will have a whole new set of problems to worry about.
Phil Demuth explains what to do if you are a super-saver with an RMD problem. By using Roth conversions to ride the tax brackets, you can minimize the amount of tax paid.
The elderly can get away with a lot more when it comes to retirement spending strategies, mostly thanks to their lower life expectancy. Just one more reason why retiring early is really expensive.
Multiple generations working together can create some awesome benefits. But pretending you are a bank or an insurance company in order to cut out the middleman is fraught with peril.
Should you divide your retirement money up between a stock/bond portfolio, a SPIA, and a VA with living benefits? Not so fast.
Moshe Milevsky's book makes a great case for pensionizing some of your nest egg, but falls short when explaining exactly how to do so.
Are you aware that most who follow a 4% safe withdrawal rate die with more money than they started retirement with? Here are 6 reasons to avoid hyper-conservatism with your SWR.
I came home from a busy shift last night to discover the traffic on this site had been 10 times higher yesterday than what it had been averaging. I couldn't figure out what was going on until I saw a...
you're currently offline
Mark all as read
|
Clear