Physician on Fire Update
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 full, happy, comfortable retirement is where so many WCIers have been aiming since they began working. The main questions: what’s the best way to get there, and once you arrive, how do you begin to live and fund your new life?
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.
Dr Cory S Fawcett advocates taking Social Security at age 62. I think that's bad advise. You should delay SS until 70. Find out why in this pro/con debate.
We recently discovered that it was neither work nor money that was preventing us from traveling as much as we like. It was those pesky kids.
Leif Dahleen of The Physician on Fire and WCI talk about guilt and careers and arguments well-meaning people put forth against early retirement, part-time work, and sabbaticals.
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Actually cutting back to part-time work as you approach financial independence has many benefits, a few pitfalls.
Reverse mortgages are a unique financial product with some interesting features. Recent changes have made them less risky for house-poor retirees, but haven't done much for high-income professionals.
Retiring at 45 is actually pretty straightforward. Here are 10 steps that can help along the path to an early retirement.
The concept of retirement is no longer a date or a day you go from full-time to not working at all. It's squishy, and it's getting squishier all the time.
Mike Piper, CPA and James Lange, CPA are two of the good guys in the financial world. They've dedicated themselves to writing the best books out there on Social Security. Claiming it right is less complicated than it used to be, but it's still worth learning about.
Physicians face different financial issues in their early career than they do in their late career. If you are 3-8 years out from retirement, take a look at these financial considerations.
Financial Independence often, but not always, leads to Retiring Early. But there are plenty of other reasons to become financially independent early in your career.
Nobody is ever really more than 10 years away from escaping from medicine. But if you want to do that, there will be a few sacrifices that must be made.
Got a pension? Should you take a lump sum or annuitize it upon retiring? Consider these issues prior to deciding.
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.
Medical school may not have taught you about money, but we will.
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