Links tagged with “retirement”
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Retirement Planner Links — James Shack
Love a good retirement planner spreadsheet.
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The Safe Withdrawal Rate Series – A Guide for First-Time Readers – Early Retirement Now
A 49-part (!) series of blog posts about safe withdrawal rates for retirement. (via Monevator)
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Accounting for big expenses and depreciation in your FIRE budget - Monevator
I haven’t often seen this aspect discussed at length in early retirement planning articles.
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Dynamic asset allocation and withdrawal in retirement - Monevator
The second of the three posts about living off his investments (the third is less interesting).
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Decumulation: a real life plan - Monevator
The first of three posts in which The Accumulator outlines his financial plans for living off his investments.
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LifeSplat.com
UK retirement calculator that looks different from the usual. Would be nice if some of the assumptions could be tweaked.
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FI Calc
Not only an extremely nicely done retirement calculator but it also has a clearly-written guide.
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What happened to Early Retirement Extreme? An update from Jacob Lund Fisker
The father of “Financial Independence / Retire Early” on what he and his wife have been doing for the past decade or so of not having to work.
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What is a sustainable withdrawal rate for a world portfolio? | Monevator
I’ve read many times that a 4% “safe withdrawal rate” is too optimistic, but not a simple breakdown like this of the adjustments to it that one should make.
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Book: Living off Your Money, by M. McClung - Bogleheads.org
I got through most of this long topic earlier in the year, and the book sounds good. But it’s time to close the tab.
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Retirement Investing Today: Resignation in
I’ve been reading RIT for a few years and, after One More Year or two, he’s retired. Good work.
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Savings Rate - the four pot solution - 7 Circles
An interesting spreadsheet for planning savings for retirement that I hadn’t seen before. UK based.
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FIRECalc: A different kind of retirement calculator
It amazes me someone could go to this much effort to create a very complex tool (scroll down…) but leave the interface so bafflingly impenetrable. (via Mr Money Mustache)
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Retirement Researcher Blog: The Shocking International Experience of the 4% Rule
Historical number-crunching, looking at one of the universal rules-of-thumb of financial blogs. (via Monevator)
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» Update 1 – From the Windy City Early Retirement Extreme: — a combination of simple living, anticonsumerism, DIY ethics, self-reliance, and applied capitalism
Just for the metaphor about why it can be good to have a slightly popular blog, but not too popular: “if you’re living in the 16th century, discussing your round earth theory with fellow scientists is good. However, being publicly known as the round-earth guy will get you burned at the stake.”
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Financial independence / early retirement / lifestyle design
While I’m at it, the newish Financial Independence SubReddit is full of this stuff.
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Simple Living in Suffolk
Another UK-based early retirement type blog but, it seems, with very, very long posts.
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Monevator — Make more money, invest profitably, retire early
A UK-based blog along the Early Retirement Extreme lines.
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Mr. Money Mustache | Putting the Cash in your Stash
Along the lines of Early Retirement Extreme, but a bit more lively (for good and bad).
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Peak oil, the next Kondratiev cycle, generational turnings, and ERE Early Retirement Extreme: — The choice nobody ever told you about
Great thinking on long term futures. Kondratiev cycles, peak oil, the downturn, the next world war, generations. Well worth a read.
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Three different definitions of retirement and the resulting confusion Early Retirement Extreme: — when more time > more money
I’m not sure how accurate or generalisable this is, but I like the suggested generational distinctions between what “retirement” means.
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Early Retirement Extreme: — written by Jacob Lund Fisker, Freelancer
Fascinating to read something like this (save 70-80% of your income, invest it, spend little, retire after five years) written by someone who has the perspective to know it’s not for everyone. (via Oliver Burkeman’s Guardian column)
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Early Retirement
By Philip Greenspun. One can dream. Two general tips: don’t read news/email in the morning or your brain will fill and you’ll get no work done; and spend more time with other people to increase happiness — computer programming is bad. (via Kottke)