Rise of the New School of Safe Withdrawal Rate Analysis, Update #1 — Bill Sholar’s Failing Confidence in FIRECalc The July 15, 2005, issue of Robert Powell’s Retirement […]
Why Knowing the True Safe Withdrawal Rate Matters
The Financial Freedom Community has for four years studied the safe withdrawal rate and how to make use of our findings to develop insights into how to invest […]
Safe Investing — What Most “Experts” Won’t Tell You
The good news is that we know more about safe investing today than we have known at any earlier time. The bad news is — It’s difficult indeed […]
The Famous Robert Shiller Stock-Market Prediction
Will Robert Shiller be proven wrong about the famous stock-market prediction he made in 1996? Or will be be proven right? There was a recent thread at the […]
What I Like and Don’t Like About Robert Kiyosaki
Some love Rich Dad Poor Dad Author Robert Kiyosaki. Some can’t stand him. Why is it about this this guy that provokes such strong reactions? Set forth below […]
Rob Bennett’s Weaknesses as a Money Advisor
It’s come to my attention that there are some unnamed others (oh, it’s possible I’ll name him once a little later on, for the benefit of the newcomers) […]
Rob Bennett — What Kinda Guy?
What kinda guy am I, really who? I don’t wear pajamas and I don’t sniff glue. — Steve Forbert, “What Kinda Guy?” Clue #1 to the “Rob Bennett, […]
Community Comments on Using Stock Data to Diminish Retirement Risks
Using Stock Data to Diminish Retirement Risks — Community Comment #1 The 4% number has worked at every valuation level and sequence of returns which have happened in […]
Pursuing a New Kind of Retirement Purpose
What’s your retirement purpose? if you are like a lot of other workers, you have come to have doubts about the old idea of retirement as a time […]
Retirement Planning Tools Don’t Work
Most retirement planning tools don’t do the job that retirees are counting on them to do. There, I said it. I’ve been debating the flaws in safe withdrawal […]