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Join The Bond Market Resistance!

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

The article devoted a good amount of space to bond market math, focusing on the pain of owning the iShares 20+ Year Treasury ETF (TLT) and bond funds in general. I found an interview I did with Seeking Alpha in late 2010 that made its way to NASDAQ.com. Here's the relevant excerpt. It turned out it did matter starting in late 2021.

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Addressing Common Retirement Misconceptions

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Part of the math that determines options premiums is the risk free rate of return from T-bills. When I retired in 2010, I had about $360K in a deferred IRA and $60K in a Roth IRA. I have taken RMD's since 2010 when I turned 70 and now I have over $550K in my deferred IRA and about $450K in my Roth without investing a dime.

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. Two reasons.

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Transcript: Lynn Martin

The Big Picture

Let’s talk about what took place on the flash crash back in 2010. I understood then that, effectively, fair value was determined by a variety of mathematical — a bunch of math, for lack of a better description. RITHOLTZ: That’s interesting. Let’s talk about some of those. These are all old data systems.

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The Long Game: Roth Conversions & Legacy Planning

Brown Advisory

Background Since January 1, 2010, all individuals, regardless of income levels, have been able to convert existing retirement accounts such as traditional IRAs into Roth IRAs. Moving to a different state, with potentially very different tax treatment for retirement assets, may change the math governing how the decision plays out over time.

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The Long Game: Roth Conversions & Legacy Planning

Brown Advisory

Since January 1, 2010, all individuals, regardless of income levels, have been able to convert existing retirement accounts such as traditional IRAs into Roth IRAs. Moving to a different state, with potentially very different tax treatment for retirement assets, may change the math governing how the decision plays out over time.

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Transcript: Albert Wenger

The Big Picture

And you know, the only thing math works on recognition by peers, and there’s some prizes. And yet, the amount of math that’s been produced over the last, you know, few decades is just mind-blowing extraordinary. There’s like the famous Fields Medal, and there’s some other prizes.

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