Remove 2004 Remove Numbers Remove Retirement
article thumbnail

Avoid the Unforced Investment Errors Even Billionaires Make

The Big Picture

My buddy could pay off his mortgage and car loans, pre-pay the kids colleges, fully fund retirement accounts, and still have cash left over. Those YHOO options represented a great deal of wealthnot fun money, but life-altering amounts of capital. He could take any job he wanted for the rest of his lifeor none at all.

Investing 267
article thumbnail

The Importance Of Diversifying Your Diversifiers

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Picture retiring in 2010 versus 2020. Mutiny makes a point that I've been writing about and have embedded into my process since 2004. There are expectations embedded in these numbers. This is in the neighborhood of sequence of return. Getting that 189% between ages 50 and 60 will be far more impactful than between 25 and 35.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Twenty Years Of Blogging! Part 1

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Back in 2004, there were very few bloggers, it was a new thing. My blog was the Forbes blog of the year for 2004 in less than three full months of blogging which should tell you how thin it was back then. The way that number went up though, I don't know if it was a real number or not. I mentioned Seeking Alpha above.

Numbers 81
article thumbnail

How Americans Save

The Irrelevant Investor

These numbers are pretty encouraging. The biggest takeaway for me here is the cash number. Outside of a retirement account, I see nothing wrong with holding six months of living expenses or something like this. That number fell to 19% in 2018. I wonder if student loans have something to do with this.

article thumbnail

Transcript: Ramit Sethi

The Big Picture

So, you start the blog in 2004, more or less. And they do that for 35 years tweaking numbers I go you won, you won the game. Number one, everybody has credit cards, everybody misunderstands how to use them, and there are actually some secret perks that people have no idea about. SETHI: Yes, number one is eating out or dining.

article thumbnail

Transcript: Michael Rockefeller

The Big Picture

They run long short across each of these, and they’ve put up some pretty impressive numbers over the past couple of years. 00:06:36 [Speaker Changed] So in, in 2004, I joined Morgan Stanley equity research. He, he had retired, retired, but he was still active. It’s beta neutral, market neutral. That was great.

article thumbnail

Transcript: Joe Barratta of Blackstone

The Big Picture

I think because the private equity investing model has been really good for our clients, which are state pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, you know, ensuring the retirement safety of many — tens of millions of people. Probably somewhere around 2004 or ‘05, we started doing things by ourselves. And, you know, why is that?

Assets 162