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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Retiring Physician Checklist Retiring Physician Checklist. Physicians love to make lists and check off stuff. ABG, check. CXR, check. Notes and basic hygiene… later. What about retirement? What list of items do you need to check off in your retiring […]
The Not Unhealthy Parent As a single parent, my goal in life is to be not unhealthy. Generational trauma runs in most families and is seen in parents and children. It takes a single person to put an end […]
If I Were Buddhist But Couldn’t Tell Anyone What would you do even if you couldn’t tell anyone about it? Would that vacation or that degree still interest you if you couldn’t tell anyone? Since retirement, I have […]
Medical Gaslighting After gaslighting became the world of the year, it is not surprising to hear of its use outside of the abusive relationship. What is medical gaslighting, and how does it affect physicians? Since this is a blog […]
Bond Tents for Retirement Asset Allocation Bond tents and Rising Equity Glidepaths are styles of glidepaths. Glidepaths describe the modulation of asset allocation before and after retirement. For example, traditional target-date funds decrease the stock percentage to or through retirement […]
Retirement Spending Smile or Lumpy Expenses? Future expenses are a major puzzle in retirement. How much money will you need to spend in the future? You have ‘guaranteed’ lifelong sources of income, such as social security, pensions, and income annuities. […]