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Personal finance links: misunderstanding risk

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nytimes.com) Retirement The sweet spot in retirement: working because you want to. contessacapitaladvisors.com) How to navigate retirement child-free. vox.com) Retirement savings The math behind tcontributing to your 401(k) plan. (ofdollarsanddata.com) Lower interest rates could help drive a home renovation boom.

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What To Do When The Bitcoin Math Doesn't Math

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

First, is the math right based on my numbers? If we guess just 2 billion people, and that is just a guess, and divide that into the 15.2 million Bitcoin, I think that works out to just under 1/100th of a Bitcoin per person, which works out to less than $100 per person at the current price. How can it solve anyone's problem?

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Wild Retirement Problems, Ep #221

Financial Symmetry

Some problems are easily solved with a bit of reasoning, logic, or by using a bit of math. These issues require much deeper consideration and often cause … Continued The post Wild Retirement Problems, Ep #221 appeared first on Financial Symmetry, Inc. Other problems, however, go beyond quantitative thinking.

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Adviser links: objectives and aspirations

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investmentnews.com) Research The problematic math of passing down generational wealth. blogs.cfainstitute.org) How life events affect retirement planning. wealthmanagement.com) Why 4% retirement withdrawal rates are still a thing. (riabiz.com) Archive Intel has entered the adviser communications archiving space.

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How Different Monte Carlo Models Perform In The Real World: Assessing Quality Of Predictiveness In Retirement Income Forecasting Models

Nerd's Eye View

When planning for retirement, it’s effectively impossible to precisely forecast the performance and timing of future investment returns, which in turn makes it challenging to accurately predict a plan’s success or failure.

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Why retiring is about more than money

Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT)

Scott Brennan The difficult part of retirement for a lot of successful people isn’t about the money; it’s about the perceived loss of importance. Some of these relationships are with people who want to retire or who are already retired. Math has no emotion, but people do. It’s a blow to their ego.