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Retirement Portfolios for Those Drawing an Income

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Figure 5: Portfolio needed for an annual income of $10 000 (a) and optimal stock allocation (b) as functions of the probability of keeping one's capital after ination or of staying solvent.

The following is a guest post by Mathieu Bouville. Drawing an income changes everything The usual viewpoint of investment advice is that of someone twenty or thirty years away from retirement who wants to accumulate a capital for retirement. Here I instead focus on somebody who is retired and wants an income. This case is… [Read More]

Filed Under: Growing Your Wealth, Investing, Market Analysis, Opinion Tagged With: asset allocation, bonds, capital growth, income, inflation, planning, real returns, retirement, stocks, volatility

Weekend Reading: Freedom Edition!

By Kevin

This week I celebrate freedom: 我考完试! I’ve finished my exams, and my evenings are wide open once again. I’m not completely satisfied, because I realized that I studied a bit too much of one area and not enough of another when doing the test, and our oral group completely got our asses kicked by the… [Read More]

Filed Under: Miscellaneous, Weekend Reading Tagged With: asset allocation, beggars, best investments of 2011, Cantonese, CFLs, Chinese, contest, creditors, dividend stock picks, driving, ETFs, finances, financial advisors, fluorescent lighting, giveaway, gold, health, homelessness, incandescent lighting, low-fat, luck, Mandarin, MERs, Michael Vick, money windfall, NASA, one-income household, panhandling, project management, redistribution, retirement, robots, savings, skill, The Globe and Mail, unconventional, Walkin' in a Winter Wonderland, war, winter, writing experiment, yogurt

Gold, Revisited: Is $1500 Near?

By Kevin

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock (or a gold nugget?), you’ve probably heard about the skyrocketing gold prices. As of this writing, gold is at $1425 USD! Only a few months ago, I don’t think most people other than a few gold bugs would have imagined prices shooting up so high, and so fast…. [Read More]

Filed Under: Growing Your Wealth, Investing, Miscellaneous, Opinion, Precious Metals Tagged With: asset allocation, bonds, Canada, credit, currency depreciation, debasement, debt, devaluation, equities, gold, inflation, Jon Nadler, monetary system, money, opportunity costs, portfolio, sovereign risk, speculative bubble, store of value, survivalist, Treasuries, U.S. dollar, Warren Buffett, World Bank

A 20 Minute Guide to Investing

By Kevin

I recently read Barbara Friedberg’s 20 Minute Guide to Investing. This guide is an intro to investing that covers the basics of what you need to know, before you start investing. Barbara covers many topics, including the following: What should I do before I invest? Why should I invest? What is investing, and what are… [Read More]

Filed Under: Book Reviews, Growing Your Wealth, Investing, Miscellaneous Tagged With: asset allocation, bonds, compound growth, debt, dollar cost averaging, emergency fund, ETFs, index funds, inflation, management expense ratio, mutual funds, rat race, REITs, retirement, stocks

Weekend Reading: Camping Weekend Edition + A List of WordPress Plugins That I Use

By Kevin

A morph of Barack Obama and George Bush

Here is your weekend reading: Site Changes I’ve recently added a popular posts plugin, which shows the 5 most popular posts along the right sidebar. Since the statistics only started being collected as of yesterday, the rankings are biased in favor of the most recent posts. I’ve also added a top commentators plugin. I’m displaying… [Read More]

Filed Under: Miscellaneous, Weekend Reading Tagged With: asset allocation, bull market, Bush, cheap vacations, compound growth, debt, DRIPs, economy, education, empire, entrepreneurialism, frugal living, HOAs, home ownership, Inception, life, morph, motivation, net worth, Obama, plugins, ponzi scheme, relationships, salesmen, self help, self improvement, spam, tax, themes, wordpress, Yakezie

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