Retirement

It’s been thirteen years since planting my financial independence flag in 2012. I want to share with you some thoughts on how life has been after financial independence. I originally wrote this post eight years after retiring early. Before neutering my day job income, I feared whether I was doing the right thing financially. What I realized […]

In early 2020, I had an early retirement master plan of retiring at age 45 by the end of 2022. Let’s review the plan given it’s now past the target date for re-retirement. I turned 47 in mid-2024. Here’s what I wrote in early 2020 right before the pandemic began on January 6, 2020. Then

In 2020, I failed at early retirement and I want to share why. For background, I retired in 2012 at the age of 34 after working in investment banking at Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse for 13 years. I also helped kickstart the modern-day FIRE movement in 2009, when I started writing about achieving financial

The Setting Every Community Up For Retirement (SECURE) Act recently passed and it will go into effect for all Americans in 2020. There is now the SECURE Act 2.0 for retirees to consider This article goes through the retirement benefit changes for the original SECURE Act. The goal of the SECURE Act is to make

Financial targets are always moving. Just when you reach one financial target, another financial target is often made. The reason for the change is due to hedonic adaptation. We humans always seem to want more! To make sure you’re being financially responsible, always look at the latest economic data to determine whether you’re saving enough,

Good news! It just got a little bit easier for everyone 40 and under to become 401(k) millionaires by the time you turn 60. The maximum 401(k) contribution limit for 2021 is $19,500, the same from 2020. Meanwhile, the combined employer and employee contribution limit rises by $1,000 to $58,000. In other words, your employer