Integrity Financial Planning

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Confirm Your Numbers Make sure that your filing status, name, and the names and Social Security numbers of your dependents are accurate. It’s also not a bad idea to review the bank account numbers you included (some of those digits can be lengthy!). 5] Avoid Early Retirement Account Withdrawals if You Can!

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Carson Wealth

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Matt Kory, Vice President, Retirement Programs As a retirement income vehicle, the 401(k) is second in popularity only to Social Security – and as CNBC reported in 2019 the number of 401(k) millionaires is at an all-time high. But is a million dollars even enough for your retirement needs? Just think of the numbers.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

My Two-for-Tuesday morning train WFH reads: • Stock Pickers Never Had a Chance Against Hard Math of the Market : In years like this one, when just a few big companies outperform, it’s hard to assemble a winning portfolio. If you’re depending on income to fund your retirement, 5% rates are a blessing. With the 10 year at 4.2%

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Integrity Financial Planning

JANUARY 23, 2023

For most, Social Security provides a solid foundation for retirement income. As you grow older and retirement looms on the horizon, the decisions you make start to have a more crucial impact on the amount of money you receive, so it’s important that you know what to expect.

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Clever Girl Finance

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The term personal finance ratios might be giving you flashbacks to math class. In mathematical terms, a ratio is essentially a way to compare two numbers to each other. Since personal finance is all about numbers, that can come in handy in many ways! However, their value tends to fluctuate more so it’s not a stable number).

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

My process here for the notional values was that the multiplier is 100 so a put struck at 4100 would hedge $410,000 worth of stock, so then I just multiplied the dollar amount by the number of puts. Why wouldn't the fund have already blown up earlier this year when the S&P 500 was up more?

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JULY 9, 2023

Generally speaking, pensions are less viable than they used to be, the math doesn't work as well. The only pension I am remotely close to is the Arizona Public Safety Personnel Retirement System. The concept of pensions is that they provide a security net to retired workers. Is he right? Is he wrong?

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The simple 40 year trade for bonds of "number go up" is finished and as a matter of math, can't be repeated. That just isn't the reality. The diversification benefits of intermediate and longer term bonds is not what it used to be. Taking volatility out of a fixed income portfolio is fairly simple.

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Discipline Funds

MARCH 6, 2024

This meant that there was very little demand for debt and so increasing the supply of potential loans was like an apple cart salesman increasing the number of apples he sells with the hope that more supply would create its own demand. This is the basic math behind what’s happened to every consumer who owns these bonds.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

APRIL 12, 2023

My experience is that the typical retired person/couple expects growth in exchange for some volatility from the equity portion of their portfolio, they don't want it from their fixed income sleeve. I'm not sure how much fixed income that has equity beta should be in a portfolio but I don't think it's a high number.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

DECEMBER 1, 2023

A quick excerpt from a post a couple of weeks ago about retirement misconceptions. I would much rather withdraw 10% or more per year from my retirement accounts and do it without taking any principal. Part of the math that determines options premiums is the risk free rate of return from T-bills.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

DECEMBER 10, 2023

There was a lot of content from various places over the weekend about whether it is time to go back into bonds, what retired investors should do for yield and even whether retirees are better off going 100% into equities. As a matter of math, it cannot repeat the run from 8.5% Barron's also noted that 60/40 was up 9.6% in November.

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Clever Girl Finance

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Retirement accounts. Maintains a large number of readily-available, interested buyers. Figuring out how to calculate liquid net worth is as simple as doing a quick math equation: Liquid assets - liabilities = liquid net worth. skip adding your real estate, retirement accounts, etc.). What doesn't count as liquid assets?

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Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

JUNE 2, 2023

CFP Board certificant data makes one thing clear: “the issue of the low number of women CFP® professionals is primarily a problem of attraction, and not one of retention. women tend to live longer, making it much more important to plan for a longer retirement) or a subjective one (e.g. Whether it’s an objective topic (e.g.,

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JULY 8, 2023

That is difficult to pull off but if you do the math on that it shows long term outperformance. He makes a good point about not relying solely on math to assess markets and portfolio construction, that the psychology of markets is important too. 75/50 seeks to capture 75% of the upside with only 50% of the downside.

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Mr. Money Mustache

MAY 20, 2022

Even Mr. Money Mustache, as a person who retired 17 years ago, is still in this boat for the simple reason that my retirement income from dividends and hobby businesses is still greater than my annual living expenses (which still hover around $20,000 per year). 3) Okay, but I really am retired and trying to live off my investments now.

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Clever Girl Finance

AUGUST 2, 2022

Let’s look at one tried-and-true way of multiplying your assets: retirement accounts. How to turn 10K into 100K through investing in retirement accounts. Although it may not sound glamorous, retirement accounts are a solid means of increasing your money. IRAs or Roth IRAs. without penalties. Similar to the 401(k) is a 403(b).

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The way my new firm is set up, I could outsource everything, for a fee, and the way this was positioned, I think there might be a decent number of advisors who do just that. So using simple math, the total return is 34% versus 72% for the common. They talked about how outsourcing model construction can save advisors a lot of time.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

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. So I applied to Maryland State retirement.

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Clever Girl Finance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The term personal finance ratios might give you flashbacks to math class, learning various formulas, equations, and ratios. In mathematical terms, a ratio is essentially a way to compare two numbers. Since finance is all about numbers, that can come in handy in many ways especially when making financial calculations!

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JULY 15, 2022

and that is the number I will assume. The math shows the NTSX/ARBIX/BTAL combo would be down 14.7% ARBIX could be replaced by any number of other funds targeting different strategies toward the same type of result. First I will say that somethin ain't right with that VBAIX result. or 110 basis points more than VBAIX.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Here are some other numbers compared to the S&P 500 and VBAIX which is a proxy for a 60/40 portfolio. The way the math works, a 67% allocation to NTSX replicates 100% into a 60/40 portfolio which leaves 33% left over to do something. Not exactly. Obviously it was down almost 30% last year versus down almost 20% for the S&P 500.

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Midstream Marketing

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

They spend hours writing articles and finally hit that “Submit” button… only to not get anywhere near the number of leads that they thought they would. Income annuities are a great way to provide people with the confidence they need to know that they will have a guaranteed amount of income during their retirement years.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Number one, and I think they both reflect strong leadership at the firms. Number one, you had, you know, somewhat of a groundswell from within the firm, certainly at leadership that said we need to figure out a way to do something. Key brands, number one, Coca-Cola Bottling is the company that really helped to jumpstart the city.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

I mean, those were the — that’s what got people all excited and — RITHOLTZ: That’s venture capital numbers. KLINSKY: Well, that is — and it was kind of venture capital numbers because the dollars were so small. RITHOLTZ: Right. I mean, so you just have to live through all this stuff. I was the next senior.

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The Better Letter

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Subscribe now Share The Better Letter Get more from Bob Seawright in the Substack app Available for iOS and Android Get the app TRIGGER WARNING: I’m going to do some sports math nerding-out this week. Brady is now retired as a seven-time Super Bowl champion, five-time Super Bowl MVP, 15-time Pro Bowler, and three-time NFL MVP.

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The Better Letter

DECEMBER 15, 2022

As I write this TBL, the S&P 500 is getting crushed and (using very rough numbers) is down 18 percent year-to-date. Based upon last week’s TBL , those hedge fund numbers sound high. Using very rough long-term return numbers (9.5% The Dow is down 8.5 The Nasdaq is down a dreadful 31 percent. I’ve had a few.

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Clever Girl Finance

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Demand is likely to continue as more and more people in the Boomer generation reach retirement. They aren’t likely to get rid of the person who knows the numbers. If you’re good with math, then turning to financial planning or accounting or opening up a similar company could be one of the best recession proof businesses to start!

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Clever Girl Finance

JANUARY 29, 2023

This is very important for retirement, and knowing what your target net worth by age should be will help you better understand how to reach your personal financial goals. Staying away from debt is also encouraged so you can keep your net worth number positive. The information here is just to guide you, not to set any rules. Rowe Price.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. She has run a number of firms and a number of divisions at large firms and traced a career arc that’s just very unusual compared to the typical person in finance. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child.

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Mr. Money Mustache

AUGUST 4, 2020

In the big picture, this usually leads to having a “successful” life, because of this basic math: Traditional Success. =. She had more than enough to retire , twenty years ago! The number of friends with whom you can have a meaningful relationship. How much work you do. How much society happens to value your work.

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Good Financial Cents

JULY 3, 2023

Calculation Breakdown Let’s break down the math to find out how much you could earn annually with a $30 hourly wage: Consider an average workweek of 40 hours and an average year consisting of 52 weeks. Then $27,750 is the magic number. Let’s do math again! What Does $30 an Hour Translate to in Terms of Paycheck?

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Clever Girl Finance

MARCH 6, 2023

You can turn these earnings into the beginning of your retirement nest egg or even fund your college expenses in a few years! By starting your savings early , you could have millions of dollars by the time you get to retirement age just from saving small amounts. Wouldn't that be nice? So decide on a flat fee for your service.

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Clever Girl Finance

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Once you know your weekly or monthly income, you can do the simple math of calculating how much 70% would be. We all need an emergency fund, and to save more long-term (think: retirement). Don’t put it into a retirement account where you won’t be able to get the money out for years.) Consider some of these ways to save.

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Sara Grillo

JUNE 12, 2023

Quick math: If you have $1.828 million in the bank. And , you have to do the math by hand. To What If Analysis, what if I pay… So I’m doing my cash flow planning in my retirement plan, and I say, You know, I don’t wanna have to pay for in as a retirement. There is an admin charge of about $49k.

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Discipline Funds

MARCH 1, 2023

If you adjust it for only the working age and retired population then inventory is even higher. Of course, this data is highly localized and we generally measure “inventory” by the number of units that are actually for sale. And that’s where the math on renting comes into play.

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Mr. Money Mustache

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

So I decided to take some action, by doing the math for myself using a spreadsheet. All covered, with no co-pay and in an environment that feels to me like Presidential-level health care, in striking contrast to some of my past experiences where I felt like an anonymous numbered ticket in a sloshing sea of bureaucratic institutional medicine.

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