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Should You Pay Off Your Mortgage Before Retirement?

Darrow Wealth Management

Is retiring with a mortgage a good idea? Retiring with a mortgage doesn’t typically pose a financial risk, and at times it’s the best financial decision. But paying off a mortgage before retirement has upsides also. Here’s when it may – and may not – make sense to pay off a mortgage before retiring.

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Thinking About Retiring Early? 8 Things to Consider First

Carson Wealth

Tom Fridrich, JD, CLU, ChFC ® , Senior Wealth Planner We’ve all asked ourselves whether it’s too early to retire (usually after a particularly challenging commute or dealing with a difficult client). But even if you feel confident today, would it be reasonable to retire early? How Early Is Early?

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Finding A Purpose After A Major Life Milestone

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Today's post will look at a couple of different retirement articles that I stumbled into this weekend. The Economist posted an opinion piece titled Why You Should Never Retire that I found via a Thread from Unusual Whales. I don't think that everyone loses purpose by retiring or otherwise moving on to a new chapter.

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10 Most Useful Personal Finance Ratios And How To Apply Them

Clever Girl Finance

The term personal finance ratios might be giving you flashbacks to math class. You can use ratios to keep track of many different aspects of your financial situation—from cash flow to savings to retirement and more. Then, create or refer to your spending journal or a budgeting tool to see how much you’re spending every month.

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Barbells Aren't Just For Lifting Weights

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

He refers to the example in that Tweet as a "barbell model." And then just a little math, the "guarantee" based on the 50/50 allocation would be 2.5% This Tweet was embedded in a thread; The context in the Tweet before was that he was on Cavuto to talk about an upcoming book and he believes that investing can be simple.

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60/40 Is Dead! Long Live 60/40!

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

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. The above is why I've taken to referring to bonds as sources of unreliable volatility. Some called the lowest yields "return free risk."

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Exchange Traded.Income?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

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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