Category: The Problem

how much is enough

How Much is Enough? (Revisited)

My first reaction when I picked up the Metro free paper last week was that we must have imported another American holiday while I wasn’t looking. I knew it wasn’t…

Deal size

Deal Size

Now that we know what the pattern of contributions over time looks like for our 7C investors, we need to decide on a deal size in order to work out how…

Pension contributions

Contribution patterns

Now that we have calculated how much each of our example investors must contribute over their lifetimes, we need to decide when those contributions should be made – what are…

Planning ahead

Planning ahead

Humans seem to focus on their immediate surroundings and the very near future. We also have a tendency to believe that things will always be the same and to be…