Valuing a pension – actuary style
Do you have a traditional defined benefit pension from either a current or previous employer? Oooh lucky you! You are one of a shrinking group.
College Investment Strategies
Kids… Kids are a blessing in your financial planning for long-term independence. Said no FIRE enthusiast ever.
Reprise! Sequence of Returns Risk
Have you thought much about sequence of returns risk, and how it will affect your withdrawal strategy? I’ll tell you that it’s been absorbing a lot of my thinking lately.
Essential insights from Karl Marx on personal finance
Do you know what I’ve never done? And will likely never do? Do you know what almost everybody in my office occasionally pursues, but leaves me standing on the sidelines?
Actuary reveals secret withdrawal rate techniques
Were you expecting an article about a particularly frugal birth-control method? Sorry to disappoint you, but today we’re going to be looking at how much you can safely spend in retirement – the safe withdrawal rate. And in particular I’ve not seen anything on the special secret techniques that Actuaries use