Archive for November, 2011
Retirement Income and Portfolio Expenses
For years you have been accumulating funds for your retirement. When your retirement date finally arrives, it is time to withdraw assets to pay for the retirement phase of your life. Developing a Safe Withdrawal Rate (SWR) is the single most important decision you will make regarding your retirement assets. Before getting into SWRs I […]
Basic Rules of Retirement
In this holiday shortened week I thought I would write a short post on the basic rules of retirement. If you follow these simple rules, it will be difficult for you not to succeed in achieving your retirement goals.
Addressing Inflation in Retirement
My last post discussed my biggest retirement fear; the fear that the US will experience persistent high inflation at a rate much greater than the return on my retirement assets. In this post I will discuss several ways that retirees can try to mitigate this risk.
My Biggest Retirement Fear
My biggest retirement fear is related to my last post about the coming changes to government retirement benefits. If you have not read my previous post, you can click on this link and read it now. However my biggest retirement fear is not caused by the expectation that these old age retirement benefits will be […]
