6♠ – Don’t Blindly Use the 4% Rule
Don’t blindly use the 4% rule. Because times have changed and it won’t work any more.
Tagged: Drawdown
Income Strategies – Measuring Retirement Success
Today’s post is about income strategies in retirement. How do you measure the best outcome? What is Retirement Success?
Weekly Roundup, 5th April 2016
We begin today’s Weekly Roundup in the FT, with a review of the first year of the pension freedoms.
Eat your bonds first – time diversification vs rebalancing
Today we’re going to look at a new paper which suggests that selling low return assets initially in retirement – eat your bonds first – might be the best approach.
Weekly Roundup, 15th December 2015
Today’s Weekly Roundup starts with the week’s big story – the Fed’s interest rate rise, covered in five articles in the Economist, and another in the FT.
Weekly Roundup, 8th December 2015
We begin today’s weekly roundup in the FT, with the Chart That Tells A Story.
Pension pots and how to survive them
We take a look at a new report from Cass Business School which reviews the best options for looking after your money in retirement.
Moving into Pension Drawdown – Happy Birthday to Me!
It’s my 55th birthday, so I take a look at the Pension Drawdown options offered by my existing providers – Fidelity, HL and AJ Bell YouInvest. Who is best?
Weekly Roundup, 15th September 2015
Weekly Roundup for the UK Private Investor: contrarian thinking, drawdown risks, the Fed and interest rates, mini-bonds, austerity and blunt feedback.
Retirement Money Show, June 2015
We sort the wheat from the chaff in the twenty-one presentations at the Retirement Money Show over at the QE II conference centre in Westminster.
Who’s afraid of sequencing risk?
We re-visit current thinking around sequencing risk – are recent claims that it is exaggerated true, or should we still fear "pound cost ravaging"?
The future of retirement – NEST & the pension freedoms
We review "The future of retirement" – a report from the government’s workplace pension provider that examines what people might do with their pension pots.
