If you want to leave your heirs as much money as possible, you should probably die in a state with no estate tax or inheritance tax. If you can’t die in a state with no estate tax or no inheritance tax, then at least die in one that has a very high estate threshold before […]
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If you’ve got a pension, count yourself as one of the lucky ones. A pension is more valuable than you realize. With a pension, you won’t be forced to lower your safe withdrawal rate in retirement like those of use who don’t have pensions. This post will help you calculate the value of a pension.
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Are you wondering whether you can save too much in your 401(k)? After all, if you save so much in your 401(k), you might not have a large enough taxable investment portfolio to generate passive income before 59.5. However, the reality is, you can’t save too much in your 401(k) if you follow my guidelines.
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This post will provide some suggested net worth growth target rates by age. It’s good to have net worth growth targets to help ensure you will retire comfortably. After all, everything is relative in finance. If you’ve got a net worth target of $1 million at age 30, but most people at age 30 have
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There is a dark side of early retirement I want to tell you about. I originally wrote this post in 2011 when I was strongly considering retiring early from banking after 12 years. I was burned out and stopped caring about climbing the corporate ladder or making a lot of money. At the time, I
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There’s one big risk of peer-to-peer lending you might not be aware of. And that’s how addicting peer-to-peer lending can get! When I log into my P2P account to figure out where to dole out my next $1,000 tranche to borrowers, I feel a little bit like President Biden handing out money to his supporters.
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Everywhere I go, I hear the benefits of the Health Savings Account, or HSA for short. People say an HSA is one of the best ways to save for retirement. It obviously is a great way to pay for inevitable medical expenses given the tax benefits. But is it worth having a high deductible plan
If you don’t have your health, no amount of money is worth it. As someone who has been writing about early retirement and the FIRE movement since 2009, let me emphasize the health benefits of early retirement in this post. There are many benefits of early retirement. Full control of your time is often the
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There’s nothing better than being financially free. Let’s look at some income profiles of FIRE movement followers. I’ve been writing about FIRE since 2009 and it’s always fascinating to see how other people are living. In “Are You Too Proud To Be Rich?” my goal was to challenge people’s beliefs that going to college, and getting
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Do you want to retire early with your spouse? If so, this post will discuss achieving the two spouse early retirement household versus only one spouse retiring early. After all, we often call one spouse retiring early as being a stay at home parent. I firmly believe it’s better for both partners to retire early
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