What People Fear in Retirement During retirement, you might face fierce emotions you have been carrying for a while. That’s normal! Anytime there is a major life transition, you will likely process some physical and emotional junk. You have […]
Should I buy short-term TIPS or just a regular TIPS fund? TIPS, like other governmental bonds, have duration. Duration reflects the investment’s sensitivity to changes in interest rates. Should you buy short-term TIPS or, perhaps, an intermediate-duration TIPS ETF? […]
Velocity Banking Calculator Does mortgage acceleration work? How can you more efficiently use your paycheck to accelerate your mortgage payoff? Use “offset accounting” to make interest while offsetting or reducing the balance of another account. So, for instance, you have […]
Imposter Syndrome and Retirement “Face it Til You Make It” is the cure for imposter syndrome. An obvious variation of fake it til you make it, we all face high-stress situations when we feel inadequately prepared. Imposter syndrome is […]
How Advertising Can Make You a Better Investor Advertisers are great investors. They build billion-dollar brands based on an idea. That’s just exactly what cryptocurrency and religion have in common—an idea. Ideas are powerful! How can knowing a […]
Physician Retirement Jokes and Funny Doctor Retirement Quotes Funny Doctor retirement quotes are no laughing matter. After all, deciding to end your clinical career is serious business. Let’s look at some physician retirement jokes to make me feel better […]
‘Identity Bridging’ in Retirement Let’s face it—some people are scared to retire. It’s not a matter of what to do with the time; it is a matter of what my identity is in retirement. Who am I […]
Merton, SeLFIES, and Target Retirement Solutions Merton is a smart guy. He started publishing on lifecycle investing in 1969. He won a Nobel for valuing derivatives. Like most academics, he looks at the retirement problem differently than us in […]
Bring Good Things to Life Bring good things to life. More than a motto, it is how you become an adult. Eventually, you birth yourself and your children. Emotional adulthood requires a growth mindset. It requires that we think […]
