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Helping Clients Grasp Abstract Retirement Income Strategies With Historical Market Visualization

Nerd's Eye View

For many financial advisors, a core part of the retirement planning process involves simulating whether the client's assets will last through retirement. Yet while these tools offer mathematical metrics, they often fall short in helping clients connect the numbers to their real lives.

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Q&A: Your Money Map

The Big Picture

This is more than overconfidence, the DKE is how poorly we are at metacognition assessing our own abilities at a specific task Look at the history of performance and the small number of professional investors who outperform their benchmarks over 1, 5, 10, and 20 years. What are some examples of bad numbers?

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Government Spending Is Out of Control! LOL

The Big Picture

As Paul Krugman recently wrote on his excellent Substack , using a chart identical to the one immediately above (Paul used FRED ): “People may imagine that government is a bigger part of the economy than it is because of all the money we spend supporting retired Americans, covering their health bills, and so on [Chart 1].

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Personal finance links: slowing down

Abnormal Returns

open.spotify.com) Retirement Nine things to consider in retirement. humbledollar.com) Tony Isola, "Withdrawal rates are more than numbers on a spreadsheet." tonyisola.com) Retirement is, in part, about saying no to obligations you don't like. marketwatch.com) The retirement savings system is still way too complex.

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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. These two possibilities a 10-fold increase versus a 90% drop are roughly symmetrical in terms of math (but probably not probabilities). Torn about what to do, he asked my opinion.

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (June 22-23)

Nerd's Eye View

million in assets to both retire and pass on a legacy interest (though many have yet to establish an estate plan), according to a recent survey. Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" – this week's edition kicks off with the news that affluent Americans believe they need an average of $5.5

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Retirement Algebra, Solving For U

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

My 64 and 2 month number is $3049 which is where I get the $1524.50 number for her. If that money is in an IRA, that is going to change your math considerably due to having to withdraw all of that inherited IRA within 10 years. This whole exercise was bottom up and based on very simple questions.