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Investing & Retirement
Should you be hand-picking stocks? Timing the market? Or taking the “lazy portfolio” way out?
Investing and Retirement are complicated and consequential topics. The articles below address these complex ideas.
I hope you enjoy them! And let me know what other questions you’d like me to dig into.
What Long-Term Stock Returns Should I Assume in My Plan?
People in the retirement planning community (especially online) do not have the right mental models long-term stock market returns.
Is the “4% Rule” Too Risky?
If you use the 4% rule to plan your retirement, are you exposing yourself to too much risk? Or not enough?
Putting a Dollar Sign On Financial Planning
How much money can you actually save through smart financial planning questions? A lot more than most people think.
Some Bets I’m Willing to Make
I care about long periods and large compounded returns over those periods. The odds are clearly in the investor’s favor when looking at those time scales.
Foggy As It Ever Was
We should be just as respectful of the omnipresent risks today as we would be during the middle of a stock market correction or even at the bottom of a market crash.
Should I Use My 401(k) Without a Match?
Is a 401(k) worthwhile even when there’s no employer match? Is tax deferral enough to utilize this illiquid retirement account?
Willingness, Need, and Ability: How To Determine Your Appropriate Risk
The triad of Need, Ability, and Willingness can help us combine objective facts with subjective feelings in our investment portfolios.
NVIDIA’s Day in the Sun(flower)
Will NVIDIA stock continue growing forever? Let’s take a garden walk and learn lessons from the sunflowers there.
The Crushing Cost of Conservative Retirement Planning
If you’re not careful, conservative assumptions could lead you to work for decades longer than you need to.