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Retiring Early: How much to Save For Retirement

Determining how much to save for retirement is time-consuming and fraught with uncertainty. However, not determining how much to save for retirement properly might result in monetary problems throughout your retirement years, which includes not having sufficient retirement funds. It is especially important to correctly figure out how much to save for retirement if you plan to retire early even [...]

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Posted by Frank Shurtz - November 4, 2010 at 10:39 am

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To Retire Early, Minimize Expenses

To Retire Early, Minimize Expenses

The biggest problem early retirees face is failure to change spending habits when they retire early.  I worked with a couple who provides an example.  I set up their portfolio to provide a retirement income of $40,000 annually which combined with social security and pensions gave them an income of $80,000 annually. The brother of the wife became ill and [...]

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Posted by bobrichards - November 4, 2008 at 10:56 am

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How to Retire Early

How to Retire Early – Four Things You Must Know

You must have sufficient capital, mathematically determined before you can pursue early retirement. If you don’t have the knowledge to make use of a financial calculator or financial software and factor in the impact of inflation, your current expenses, changes in future income, a safe withdrawal rate from your portfolio and use Monte Carlo simulation or other tool to estimate [...]

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Posted by bobrichards - July 22, 2008 at 10:42 am

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