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My Complete Early Retirement Plan | Mr. Money Mustache | FIRE Movement | Part 1

everybody Dave here in free investing in this first part of this two-part series we're gonna talk about early retirement planning and I'm two years in the early retirement planning and I made significant progress but there's still quite a bit of work left to do so in this first video of this series we're going to talk about where my accounts stand today and kind of the income I get from that and where my will Network stands and all that and kind of where the net worth needs to go and then the second part which I'll release next Saturday is where I want the counts to be post-fire and the ultimate goal with that let's go ahead and dig in so what we're looking at here is something I set up about six years ago after reading a mister money mustache article if you're not familiar with mister money mustache he's you know kind of you know I wouldn't say he's the first but he's definitely a person that made fire kind of a popular term and you know I mean he just really helped a lot of people but he helped me too because I was sitting in a hotel room for literally six months out of the year up and bfv buck Egypt right so essentially when I was sitting in that hotel room I was thinking about okay I want to hike the 80 well that requires me to take about four or five months off of work which theoretically means that I probably need to quit work so I was kind of looking at a way to do that and that's when I found mister money mustache and that's when I came across the 4% rule which is based off the Trinity study you take your you know annual expenses that you have to live and you know you times it by 25 that comes out with how much money you need to retire so you know I got at the top here the $30,000 was the 35 40 45 4855 those are just numbers that came up with I thought would be pretty good to retire on in 25 is the general rule for the Trinity study you know you would draw four percent and it should last you in at least 25 years theoretically probably make it last a lifetime but you know that rule in my opinion is a little old a little outdated back when that was instituted it was kind of I want to say that they're working on the interest rates were super-high back then like I don't think 8% or something like that so there's a lot more viable in my opinion so I came up with you know being another probably gonna be about 46 47 when I retire I came up with just I'm gonna go ahead and do the 3.5% withdrawal rate which gives me 29 X 29 years and then I kind of just bolded those numbers there across the board originally I came up with 1.25 was going be the number and then I upped it at one point three five and then later changed it to one point five and that's just the thing that you have NIP running into when you get close to your number or even surpass your number you start thinking okay what's another year what's another year and I hope I don't play that game going forward but so right now the things that are highlighted in yellow here are things that well I guess I haven't really achieved that one or that one so what it was originally was the number that I already achieved so I just put in there okay it gives me the three percent and thirty three percent in the thirty-five but I have not achieved at one point four eight five yet so I should probably take that out but but I do plan on you know we'll look in the numbers here in a minute but I do plan on you know going to one point five two possibly into one point six five so that's the reason why I probably set these the yellow originally so I probably even set that one a o if you're enjoying my content please like and subscribe and hit that Bell notification alright we are looking a snapshot of my current state as of June 18th alright I have all my accounts there and I have the value in each one of those accounts and then you know that no percent of net worth and the income by account and then yield by a count so as it sits today June 18th there's one point three six million in all these accounts so that is and we're over my original number that I wanted to fire on and like I said a lot of this depends on the customer I've set it in other videos a lot of attend them that depends on the the customer and when they want me to this last project so not to mention we are still in a pandemic and right on the you know I would say the up slide up slope of the recession so it kind of makes sense to just help hold out for another year or two and that's what we're planning on doing so right now there's 401 K accounts 228 k in there the CRA is a company retirement account that's what that stands for that's new part of the solo 401k trust that's in the dividend Schwab account what you've seen me to do a lot of videos on my dividend portfolio here so we're going to be building that out here and we'll talk about that in a minute let me see Sola form with Kate trust notes I do have two notes in the 401k trust in those notes you know generate about 7.6 percent yield which is pretty good income and I'm probably gonna end up keeping those in there but we'll look at the post you know account where we want things to be in the next few years this is just a snapshot of what things look like right now so HSA I am building that out I wish I had an HSA for the last 20 years but unfortunately I didn't and so I'm building that out to $3,500 a year and you know I'm investing that money as well I do plan on contributing into that account once I retire as well so there is you can contribute interest income and contribute dividend income and all that stuff as long as you have a high deductible plan once you retire so I'm hoping I can still build that out and offset some dividends or interest income with that as well so that's kind of good if you don't have an HSA and you are offered an HSA from your work that is one of the best things it's like triple dipping alright so I would highly suggest that you max that out every year if you can I do have a little bit of silver there at about ten thousand dollars in silver and you know the first chance I get to sell about silver about $40 an ounce I am getting out of it but we'll look at that here in a minute so right now that is what I have and silver I do have a Robin Hood account I've pretty much drained a lot of that money out of there and moved it to the TD Ameritrade account mainly just because Robin Hood is just not mature and they really don't report you know P&L what just kind of drove me nuts so I produced during the count left 2000 dollars in there just in case I want to trade some more crypto and my m1 finance I pretty much drained as well that's actually gonna get drained even more and that's gonna go into the dividend portfolio most likely TD Ameritrade account I haven't really done any videos on that but that is where all my spec plays are I have traded carnival in there traded world Bank of America not make America ba I always say Bank of America for be a bowling and I've traded let's see what else have I traded in there Delta and Southwest as well so right now I think those are good spec plays I'm going to go ahead and continue to trade those stocks in my spec account I've already made about $1,500 in that account just in the last couple of months so my Interactive Brokers account I've I haven't really showed me doing any trades in there I've done some covered calls and some cash secured puts and that's pretty much all I do in that account and you know I deal I just want to generate that four percent that twelve hundred dollars a year and I've already way past that this year if I like I think four grand if I'm not mistaken so real estate notes I have done a video on my passive income off those notes and it generates a quite a bit of income $38,000 and I essentially will be draining those out for the dividend portfolio and I've talked about that in previous videos the main reason for doing that is just because I want to reduce my interest income because that is taxed at the ordinary rate so we will be throwing the principal in from you know every every month the principal gets paid back so every month I will put in portion that principal in the dividend portfolio and building that dividend portfolio out so I've been quite a few videos on fund rise right now that counts sits at 16 200 or so sixteen thousand two hundred and you know generates I'd say about 8 percent per years what I've been getting out of it so I don't have any uh plans of getting rid of that account but we'll talk about that in a minute so Lending Club I haven't done any videos on that and shoot I don't know so ten months or so I probably should do a closure video on that I am draining that account out all that cast that's in that account will be going into the fund right of the count you know as I said before we will talk about that in a minute so and lastly here we do have cash in the high-yield savings account I guess that's what it stands for is so high yes I get you guys okay getting out of control now just recently that count was literally 2% drop down to 1.8 and then 1.5 and I just last three weeks it dropped all the way to 1.0 percent which is actually pretty good considering a lot of accounts right now are probably at like 0.3 or 0.03 or something so there are 70,000 dollars in there right now and I'm gonna talk about that in a minute so net worth as it stands right now one point three six and annual income by all these accounts which I call like investment accounts and savings did I include savings in there you know there's no savings in there so that's just annual income from my actual you know what I didand from the notes and from the notes up here a 401 K I've been real conservative and that 401 K accounts up there and I was real conservative a lot of these other accounts too like the options I put it four percent and you know flips I didn't laughter I skipped two flips I do have one hundred seventy three thousand dollars in flips that have turned sideways that's why that house is flipped upside down right there because it's you know real estate flips and you know I need to foreclose in those two houses and we're stuck because the local government shut down all evictions and awful and all foreclosures even though there's nobody living in the house or anything like that it just doesn't matter they said foreclosures across the board or frozen and there's been like that for the last couple months I don't know when they're gonna unfreeze that but right now I got that money just tied up in there and it's just a waste at this point so my right hand side here we do have a current breakdown and let's just make that a little bit smaller here I do have a breakdown of the current net worth allocation you know by pie chart so my biggest income producer is that real estate notes at thirty eight point four percent and you know the real estate flips is a pretty big portion and then the 401k accounts as well so then that's just looking at the pie charts there so let's scroll down a little bit here account type I did break these out up here so if he's noticed let's make that a little bit bigger you notice that that I have a light blue here that's just for retirement accounts in this dark blue is for taxable accounts okay so I broke those out here taxable side of about 1.0 three million dollars and then the tax deferred side for hundred and one thousand dollars at this time and then the income is broken out as well and the reason I have to do that is because I want to know what my income is on the taxable side I don't have any intentions of touching the tax deferred side when I early retire and I need to know that the taxable side is going to support my knees for early retirement it also lets me know that you know what type of income we're gonna have and I need to break that out into dividends and what does ordinary income and/or interest income as well so I can kind of figure out what my taxes are going to be so and that's the yield just in general what's didn't you know coming off this particular income or what this net worth is so the SR is saving slash return and that's just a projection it's a pretty conservative projection on what my actual net worth will increase on a year-over-year period and on a monthly period so I do save quite a bit of income that I make on my nine-to-five not to mention all of this return up here is calculated there as well so that's a rough estimate about one hundred thirty-seven thousand my network should go up in a conservative basis per year so and then here we are looking at the net worth currently and then my goal is one point six five and we're 87 percent to my goal with a remaining amount of two hundred and thirteen thousand dollars and that just seems like it just never goes down so so let's go ahead and look at the conservative net worth projection here and that's based off this number up here and this monthly number here okay so right now in 45 it's twenty twenty-one and it's you know starting to mount with one point three six million and you know I got my lean fire there which would put me in 11 months would put me at a one point five six which we ideally would probably you know get me where I want to be but I'm gonna probably end up pushing it to 2022 which is 22 months out at one point six eight eight in that like I said that's my fire I'm okay with a lean fire and you know ideally just because we're on the upslope of the recession at this point and I don't know when those projects are gonna be done at the customer which I kind of promised I'd stick around for so I kind of pushed it out to 22 months but every time a month takes off as soon as July first kicks off I love to just go in here and set that to ten months and I love to set this to 20 months or 21 months excuse me and watch the numbers kind of just auto-adjust down and all that because that just lets me know I'm getting closer and closer and closer so let's go ahead and reset those back to 11 and 22 and the reason why I have those set out to and not just adjust it off that 11 months there is because the 11 months is my first retirement date and I already passed my first retirement date technically it was for 2020 so that would you know the second retirement was in 2021 but since that one's already passed we have moved it to the first retirement date which is 11 months out so that's the reason why I have those two numbers in there to be Auto adjusted or manually adjusted I should say just because you know I might who knows I might hang it up at 11 months so we'll see where I'm at so and if I stuck it out to 55 years old which I don't see doing some people when they're young could say oh yeah I want to be you know I won't have a B I want to be a billionaire and you know it's like the older you get you start realizing that money it doesn't matter it's all about your time you can't get that time back you're buying time you're trading time for money if you haven't seen my video on the Neil pass richa video that I did watch that video pretty much sums it up okay you're trading time for money the older you get the less you care about money you just need enough money to survive to support your needs of living you know food basic shelter all that beyond that it really doesn't matter as long as you can you know have a one trip a year or something like that that's all the matter stuff doesn't matter at all so you know hanging out to 55 years old on a conservative basis I'd be a 2.78 6,000,000 which likely probably be you know three by that point so I'm not gonna make it to 55 I feel like I'm gonna die today so that's just how I feel just strapped with time working you know Xion hours it's just it's time to enjoy my life and you know all the sacrifices I've made for the last ten years so if you're enjoying my content please like and subscribe and hit that Bell notification let's take a look at the right-hand side here might be your left but this is the current lessee current account income breakdown here and that's just the income broken down so like I said my biggest income is from real estate notes at fifty nine percent and the second would be and the solo 401k trust notes so that's a lot of notes that I have in there and I guess the third one would be the 401k account so it's just this ditz and pretty much this the indexes and emerging markets and all that so alright let's go ahead and scroll back over here and scroll down so I do just put a little gate there and the network's kind of just gives me a little barometer or what are you want to call it speedometer for the network there I'm not in the green the green is set at 1.5 million and I'm close but I'm not quite there I should hit it by the end of this year but let's just say you know it's just a visible visual indicator doesn't mean nothing just for the viewing purposes so let's go ahead and look at this conservative network projection and this goes all the way out to 2030 and that's 55 I don't know why those numbers are so small there but that is 55 years old if I made it to 2030 and don't die before then I would have a roughly about 2.7 million in net worth probably in a conservative basis I was real conservative just because you know four percent I can you know get better return than that most likely but right now we are at 1.3 at one point for 3 which is on 2020 assignment on this chart here but 2022 is what we're looking at would be 47 probably just turned off seven and 1.68 is above my my threshold so we're good to go so so that's it for this video part 2 will come out next Saturday and you know stay tuned for that one if you have any comments questions are concerned on this particular video go ahead and even come a below you know hit me up on Twitter Instagram Facebook and until the next video comes out go ahead and like and subscribe we'll see you the next video thanks for watching

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ZERO Savings at 50? Plan for Retirement NOW 💰

What are we doing here? What's going on?
>>What are we doing here? >>This is a super-simple game. We're fishing for advice. Give me that.
>>See, I chose the right outfit today.
Yeah. [Fishing for Advice With Financial Advisers] I know you guys are probably thinking
I'm a professional fisherman, but I'm not. I'm a financial coach. You are 50 years old and have not started
saving for retirement. What is the first thing you do? Panic! No, I'm just kidding. So, at 50 years old, that is a big
wake-up call for a lot of people, and the very first thing you do is take stock of where your money is going today, because
you are gonna need to seriously amp up your saving.

So, not everybody needs to
have some giant savings. You need to have enough to replace the amount of income
you're gonna spend in retirement. I'm gonna just cheat a little, because I'm
really embarrassed. So I would just take a minute to assess my full
financial picture and actually sit down with the numbers to take financial
inventory. So I think step 1 is just going through what are all the
accounts I have, what is everything I own, what's the value of everything I own, and
then making another list of everything that I owe. And then from there you can
be like, "OK, well, this is the money that I actually do have, and so maybe there's a
better way for me to maximize this for my retirement." I feel like 50 is the new 20 or
30, you know, still not too late.

Yeah, don't think that it's over.
Consider it like a halftime. This is where you go
into the locker room and you look at what you did in the first half and what
can be done better for the second half. You come up with a new strategy, a new game plan, and then you go out into the second half,
and you prepare to win the game. [Cheering] I have to say this is the weirdest game
I've ever played at a FinCon. You're 50 years old — I am 50 years old — and
have not started saving for retirement. What's the first thing you do? You breathe, and you don't panic, and you start now. What you should not do is
think, "Well, it's too late now, so let's just see what happens in the next 20, 30
years." Because that is going to lead to disaster.

You still have time to turn this around,
but you have to get serious about this now. So you would talk to a
financial planner, come up with a game plan of how you can reduce your spending,
how you could put extra money into savings, and how you can kind of catch up. Once you've found the money, you are gonna automate the flows into those IRAs and 401(k)s, because if you don't automate it, you're gonna force
yourself to go through this exercise again and again, but if you set it and
forget it, you will continue to make headway. All right, here we go. It’s why I got this net, man. The first thing I want you to do, I want you to take positive action.

I want you to look around this minute, right now, and make a decision on some things you're gonna change. And it might be your attitude, it might be
the way that you're spending money, it might be the way that you're even looking at money. Be positive.
You know, it's not over till it's over. You can do it, you just have to start
doing it right now. Whoops! All right, everyone, listen. Gaining
information is absolutely imperative. It keeps you aware and it keeps you motivated. So be sure to subscribe to AARP's YouTube channel. OK, come on. All right. I'm just gonna pick these
fish up. OK! [Laughter].

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Introducing Pensionfriend – the Ultimate Private Pension Plan for a Stress-Free Retirement!

hey guys welcome my name is Nick I'm one of the co-founders of a company called hippo friends we've recently launched pension friend pension friend is our new service which helps customers understand their pension in Germany just like mortgages pensions in Germany are rather complex we've spent at least a year researching and understanding all the various different state private pensions to help our customers navigate this jungle we've teamed up with a firm in Liechtenstein called Liechtenstein live to actually develop our own private pension product which helps customers retire in a clever way let me explain firstly it's like an ETF but it's also like a life insurance we take the flexibility of the ETF and we pair it with the tax benefits of the life insurance what does that mean well every month I contribute to my private pension plan instead of going into a very safe and often low-performing Investment Portfolio like government bonds what we do is we distribute this across several ETF portfolios this way it's Diversified it's flexible and it's highly performant on the life insurance side it's very beneficial because the ETFs are within a life insurance which means that you get all the tax benefits that you have with any other life insurance which is instead of paying capital gains like you normally do at the end of the year on your realized gains with the life insurance rapper you're actually recycling the capital gains that means you're not paying any capital gain lands tax every single year and of course what does that mean it means that your portfolio is accumulating or compounding faster what's more you also have a tax break after 62 and 12 years of holding the pension plan which amounts to only paying your tax on 50 of the gains so again a massive tax break this product that we've developed is called pension friend and it's now live on pensionfront.de you can start by calculating your public pension and then use that to see how much more you need to supplement it so that you can retire safely and soundly if you want to learn more about either hippo friend or pension friend check out the links in the description and you can either see how much you can afford or when you can retire with pension friend thank you so much and good luck with your home buying search or your private pension Journey

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6 Retirement Essentials (Most people only prepared 2 or 3)

I'm planning for retirement most people focus 
mostly on marshaling together enough money you   know Financial Resources so that they can last 
the distance and then maybe at the back of their   heads they have some vague plan right perhaps 
two or three things to fill the time with a lot   of the times this is stuff like travel family 
well unfortunately I'm gonna say that's not   quite nearly enough for Preparation we ourselves 
have been retired for two years and going looking   back on the past two years I kind of see like 
six essential things that if you prep for it   beforehand before your retirement starts I think 
this can really make such a positive difference   to your retirement so that's what I wanted 
to bring up and discuss with you guys today   number one first and foremost of course we have 
to talk about money most people's concern is the   amount of money that they have in retirement 
whether it will last them till the end come   comfortably and allow them to afford the Hobbies 
like travel good food Etc but I actually think   after going through the last two years building up 
our financial Acumen is just as important if not   more so what do I mean by Financial Acumen I mean 
stuff like budgeting tracking projecting investing   I mean if you think about it the money in your 
bank account can always be squandered we all   know that story I think more importantly what's 
going to make your retirement more fireproof is   having an ability to generate more money where 
it came from in the first place so the second   essential thing that you can prepare for so that 
you have a wonderful retirement it's definitely   the ability to be self-directing and disciplined 
self-direction definitely helps so much with   spending your retirement days meaningfully right 
after all there are no more like work schedules   or like demands from colleagues or bosses to help 
shape your days anymore you have to be the person   to take charge in retirement there's a study out 
there actually that shows that for happily retired   folks most of them actually have about 3.6 core 
Pursuits that's what they say and the unheably   retired folks tend to have less than 3.6 corporate 
suits coming in at about 1.9 call Pursuits that's   what the study reflected I guess it kind of just 
shows in retirement you really need to fill your   life to the brim and keep busy with activities 
you love and that is a really great formula for   happiness and self-direction will help you 
to achieve that state as well as discipline   because if you think about it like discipline 
directly affects the state of your finances right   it affects whether you stick with your retirement 
planning whether you keep fit and active and you   get to maintain your health in retirement even 
whilst you're left up to your own devices even   to find your cover suits if you don't have any 
when you're starting or in your retirement so   discipline and self-direction will be like 
the building blocks for enjoying your life   in retirement the third essential thing you might 
want to work on and cultivate or happy retirement   is people skills right so studies and research 
have reflected very consistently that the main   determining factor for happiness and Longevity 
for most of us is actually relationships Human   Relationships friendships relationship with 
your spouse and with your family I guess if   you look at most of us you know we all have 
a little need of work on some social skills   in some aspect I mean some of us are a bit shy 
paper hats or graph or maybe socially anxious   working on our people skills really will help us 
to get along and live happily with our spouse and   family members and also importantly to make 
new friendships at whatever age we all know   that making new friends gets a lot more difficult 
as we get older I mean I haven't heard anyone say   otherwise for me personally making new friends 
as I get older is the biggest challenge there's   this huge feeling that nothing can replace 
friendships with people who have known you   all your life but it is also a challenge as I 
have chosen to exercise through Arbitrage in   our retirement and we've moved away from home 
so those friends aren't with us in our present   I find that it takes a lot of intention I have 
to consciously push myself to broaden my Social   Circles and make the effort to get to know people 
on a more intimate basis I am also very happy   to be able to say that it has paid off in that for 
the last two years in Bali I have actually made   two or three new friends that I'm happy to say are 
kindred spirits and not just social acquaintances   so that's very nice and it's a huge Comfort to our 
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MooMoo ad using my link in the description below   now back to the video the fourth essential 
thing that you can definitely work on and that   will benefit your retirement tremendously it's 
actually courage you're definitely gonna need lots   of courage in retirement and I guess this isn't 
a skill exactly it's kind of more of a quality   but in retirement you need a lot of courage 
to even plunge into retirement you need the   courage to you know take that leap of faith to 
stop putting it off due to fear of the unknown   feel or financial insecurities so then it's all 
about courage at that stage not let fear and   insecurity rule your life and your decisions it 
is also the courage to recognize that in life at   the start at the end in the middle the Domino's 
you need are never all nicely lined up you know   at some point you just got to jump into it and 
then learn to cross the obstacles as they come   so for retirement long term I guess the 
biggest issue most commonly is always money   but my perspective on this is that hey budgets 
can always be reduced money can always be earned   or recouped or whatever happens so I still 
think that you know it is actually beneficial   to Advocate an approach whereby you get to 
a point where you feel that you have most of   your Ducks lined up you've planned well you've 
prepped for it grab hold of your courage with   both hands and then take the plunge people tend 
to think of retirement as the end but it's not   it's the start of a new phase where you should be 
trying so many new things new Pursuits new ways   to live and for each of these new adventures 
you're gonna need courage to take action and   once you have taken the plunge you'll find the 
next fifth thing very very useful and that would   be a mentality of resilience especially in early 
retirement there are a lot more decades ahead of   you you know and therefore a lot more chances that 
they things can go wrong whether it be down to bad   financial planning or perhaps an unexpected Health 
catastrophe or even sometimes natural disasters   whatever comes I guess you will always need that 
strength of Will and the resilience so that you   can roll with the punches and then get back up 
you want to know that you have the mental strength   that even if things go pear-shaped you won't just 
give up and lose hope and certain Corner you've   got to Marshall what you've got inside you go out 
there find Solutions perhaps if necessary you've   got to go back to work but know that later on 
you can return to retirement and try again so the   sex essential thing that I believe will benefit 
everyone in retirement is to cultivate an attitude   of gratitude we all know life is a very long 
journey hopefully at least and so much of what   we Chase using most of our years actually doesn't 
really matter in the big picture once you have   taken a step back and then at that point is when 
you start realizing the earlier you cultivate and   attitude of gratitude and that appreciation for 
the simple little things that are probably around   you everywhere every day the happier you probably 
will be and it sounds silly but it's not really   automatic I mean we all live and grow up and 
work and go to school in a society that kind of   innovates us with messages that we need to reach 
for more have more ambition gives us you know that   High definitions of success in life that we 
have to try to jump to reach and nobody sings   the Praises of the pleasures of a simple cup of 
tea you know the importance of family time with   your loved ones or or just the pleasure of being 
able to take an evening walk on the beach with   your dog so I think that it's very important that 
somebody reminds you that you know you can not   overload what you already have what you're already 
surrounded by growing that muscle of appreciation   so that in each and every moment you are present 
in your own life you see all the little Joys that   you're surrounded with every day and if you 
live life like that I think that will help   you achieve contentment with just the small stuff 
around you and that's what majority of your life   in retirement may be about is just a small stuff 
every day but in my own retirement here in Bali it   is what makes me so grateful and so happy every 
day that I am surrounded by my loving husband   and very interesting and independent little dog 
that's very very cute you know that we have very   comfortable a bit simple house we have the ability 
to enjoy good food even if it's simple stuff   from the war rooms locally we have a garden and 
beautiful things are growing around us every day   the weather is great you know stuff is good yeah 
I think this is one of the most essential simple   things that's often overlooked simply because it's 
a matter of mentality but I believe this essential   quality or characteristic could make all the 
difference for you so these are the six essential   things that I believe are very very important for 
you to cultivate and prepare for in the leader to   actually taking the plunge into a return then I 
think that if you have these six strong skills and   qualities going for you you will be in a position 
much more well placed to make the best out of your   retirement however long that period may be let me 
know what you think of my suggestions whether you   agree or if you think they suck let me know why 
but in any event I really appreciate you tuning   in and sharing my thoughts for this week and 
wherever you are in the world I'm wishing you   a happy Saturday evening and let's speak again 
next week till then you take care and bye for now

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ZERO Savings at 50? Plan for Retirement NOW 💰

What are we doing here? What's going on?
>>What are we doing here? >>This is a super-simple game. We're fishing for advice. Give me that.
>>See, I chose the right outfit today.
Yeah. [Fishing for Advice With Financial Advisers] I know you guys are probably thinking
I'm a professional fisherman, but I'm not. I'm a financial coach.

You are 50 years old and have not started
saving for retirement. What is the first thing you do? Panic! No, I'm just kidding. So, at 50 years old, that is a big
wake-up call for a lot of people, and the very first thing you do is take stock of where your money is going today, because
you are gonna need to seriously amp up your saving. So, not everybody needs to
have some giant savings. You need to have enough to replace the amount of income
you're gonna spend in retirement.

I'm gonna just cheat a little, because I'm
really embarrassed. So I would just take a minute to assess my full
financial picture and actually sit down with the numbers to take financial
inventory. So I think step 1 is just going through what are all the
accounts I have, what is everything I own, what's the value of everything I own, and
then making another list of everything that I owe.

And then from there you can
be like, "OK, well, this is the money that I actually do have, and so maybe there's a
better way for me to maximize this for my retirement." I feel like 50 is the new 20 or
30, you know, still not too late. Yeah, don't think that it's over.
Consider it like a halftime. This is where you go
into the locker room and you look at what you did in the first half and what
can be done better for the second half. You come up with a new strategy, a new game plan, and then you go out into the second half,
and you prepare to win the game. [Cheering] I have to say this is the weirdest game
I've ever played at a FinCon. You're 50 years old — I am 50 years old — and
have not started saving for retirement. What's the first thing you do? You breathe, and you don't panic, and you start now. What you should not do is
think, "Well, it's too late now, so let's just see what happens in the next 20, 30
years." Because that is going to lead to disaster.

You still have time to turn this around,
but you have to get serious about this now. So you would talk to a
financial planner, come up with a game plan of how you can reduce your spending,
how you could put extra money into savings, and how you can kind of catch up. Once you've found the money, you are gonna automate the flows into those IRAs and 401(k)s, because if you don't automate it, you're gonna force
yourself to go through this exercise again and again, but if you set it and
forget it, you will continue to make headway. All right, here we go. It’s why I got this net, man. The first thing I want you to do, I want you to take positive action.

I want you to look around this minute, right now, and make a decision on some things you're gonna change. And it might be your attitude, it might be
the way that you're spending money, it might be the way that you're even looking at money. Be positive.
You know, it's not over till it's over. You can do it, you just have to start
doing it right now. Whoops! All right, everyone, listen. Gaining
information is absolutely imperative. It keeps you aware and it keeps you motivated. So be sure to subscribe to AARP's YouTube channel. OK, come on. All right. I'm just gonna pick these
fish up. OK! [Laughter].

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This is how much you need for retirement to live the life ‘you’re hoping for’ #shorts

it isn't a dollar amount that can seem daunting the last thing you want to do is put out a dollar amount that's going to be discouraging you want to put out guidance at least Fidelity wants to put out guidance that's going to encourage people to save for retirement so the fact that this is based on variables that people understand and the fact that it's not based on dollars we feel that that's why it's much more easy for a lot of retirement Savers to grasp and hopefully will be a good guy for people as they save and and approach their retirement age there's two things that we really encourage people to do when it comes to retirement savings take a long-term approach saving for retirement is a marathon not a Sprint and try to have a plan in place

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Early Retirement Success Story – How He Saved 12 Crores in His 30s | Fix Your Finance Ep 36

If you want to retire early, then this video
is for you. Today we'll meet a man who has a corpus of
more than 10 crores and has managed to retire completely before
the age of 40. We will learn how to start planning, how to
do the calculations for early retirement and what all things to keep in mind before
leaving your job. So watch this video till the end and to support
our channel, like the video right now. FIX YOUR FINANCE Hello and welcome to a new episode of Fix
Your Finance. Today I have Ravi Handa with me. Welcome to the show Ravi. Glad to be here. How's early retirement treating you? It has its good parts obviously. What are the good parts? You can spend time on things which you were
not able to do earlier. And what are some of the bad parts of retiring
early? You lose a lot of value and a lot of validation
that you used to get from a job.

You have described your retired life in 2023. Let's take it back to like 15-16 years back. So, what did you study? I have done engineering in computer science. And what was your first job? Where did you start working? I started working in the education sector
itself. I joined IMS Calcutta which is a CAT coaching
company. Okay. And what was your first paycheck? 25,000 odd rupees. When you retired in 2022, what were you doing
back then? Actually, before that, I used to run a business
from 2012 to 2021. Which was in the education sector. My company was acquired by Unacademy. So, the last 1-1.5 years of my working career, I was with Unacademy as director content sales. So, how many years did you work? I worked from 2006 to 2010.

Then I took a year break. 2011 is when I got married. 2011 is when I joined this IT company called
Mindtical. What was the trigger to start your own thing? When I was working for IMS, at that point of time itself, I started making educational videos on YouTube
around 2008. Gradually, they became popular. Not very popular. And this was CAT coaching for MBA? CAT coaching. First, I started with math. Then I went to GK through math. Then to LRDI, then to English. I kept on expanding. And how was the business? How did it work? Business was profitable from day one. Because there was no expense. Yes. In today's date, the cost of videos or ads
in EdTech has gone astronomically. In 2012, it was extremely simple. Because I don't think anyone was doing it. Or even if anyone was doing it, they were not such a big player that you cannot
really compete. On an average, what was the kind of profits
or salary that you guys were drawing? We had good years when we did revenues of
3 crores as well.

We had bad years when we did revenues of 25
lakhs as well. There was massive fluctuation. In 2021, your company got acquired. Correct. It got acquired and then there was that vesting
period wherein you had to work. Correct. And after that, you got an exit. Correct. So, were you actively looking for an exit? Yes. Again, I am telling you the same. So, during the COVID period of 2020, my wife was pregnant at that point of time, So, my wife and I used to sit and chat about
what to do with life. And this is what emerged that we have to sell the business at whatever valuation possible, whatever sort
of deal you get. Because getting out of business is the priority. After selling the company, there will be a
vesting period wherein you were working with Unacademy. Correct. What was your compensation then? Exact numbers I can't reveal because of the
NDA. But my salary was a little above 1 cr. And the ESOPs of the vesting, that was another additional 50 lakhs or a
little more than that.

Wow! So, you have a lot of money in Edtech, I am
guessing. Yes. But I didn't get this for my skill or my talent. Okay. This I got primarily because they were acquiring
my company and this is a way for them to pay out the
money slowly rather than on day one. What is your background? Which college did you study in? IIT Kharagpur. Did that also help in your, you know, starting your entrepreneurial journey? Absolutely. I am telling you, there are a few things which have helped me a lot in life. To take risks, to experiment. One, my parents were always independent. I have never had to give a single rupee to
my parents. The second thing which has really helped me
is my wife was very well educated and in a very good
job which allowed me to take a lot of risks. The third is that I went to a good college and through that college, you build a network. I have friends in senior positions in multiple
places. This is it. You are the sum of your privilege, your background and the people that you have interacted with over your life.

Okay, so now we will talk about your expenses. Do you live in a rented apartment or is it
an owned? It's an owned flat. I shifted to Jaipur in 2015 to be closer to
my parents and at that point of time, I purchased the
flat that I still live in today. Did you take it on loan or did you pay in
cash? No, it was entirely in cash because at that
point of time, I had been doing business for 2-3 years.

The second thing is your travel. So, do you have a car or do you travel in
cabs? I have a car but I don't really like to drive
that much. So, how much fuel do you spend on a monthly
basis? I have no idea. So, you don't track expenses in general? That way, no. So, The way I track expenses is at the beginning
of the financial year, I check how much money was in the bank account. Throughout the year, I just find out how much
money went out of your bank account. So, that's how I determine how much I spent
this year. So, on an annual basis, how much did you spend
in the last 3 years? Around 2 lakh rupees goes into maintenance.

Society, maintenance plus the other property
that I own. 5-7 lakh rupees is the vacation. Another 2-3 lakhs would be eating out, drinking,
parties. Parties, not the pub parties. Parents' 50th anniversary, the first birthday
of the child. So, all these parties add up. 3 lakhs or a little more than that would go
towards the house help staff. These are the big hits. Now, it is time for the main thing, which is talking about your financial independence
and retirement plans. The first and main thing is figuring out your
FIRE number. How much money would I need to not work and can retire comfortably. So, in which year did you seriously start
thinking about FIRE? Which year? Covid, 2020. 2020 is when I actually sat down and did the
numbers. Where I have this much money, I will put this
money here and there. So, it took me around 3 months, maybe 6 months to figure out how much money I exactly need,
how do I need to invest it. And then it took me a couple of years, 3 years
to execute that. So, if your annual expense is 25 lakhs, if you take a multiple of 30, it is 7.5 cr.

Right? So, what are some of the milestones that you
took into account? There are two major chunks that I have kept. One of them is nearly everyone likes and accepts
that you have to save money for your child's higher
education. So, I have earmarked 50 lakh rupees for that. Wow! I will give it to him at 18 or whatever appropriate
age. 7.5 Cr plus 50L. For this? Yes. 8 cr. Another 50L is what I wanted to keep as a
sort of play money for experiments that I would want to do. Angel investing is one of them. Crypto investments is one of them. I am doing a podcast right now, so it has
its own expenses. Yeah. You should check out his YouTube channel,
okay? Every month, two videos come up specifically
talking about how to achieve FIRE. Okay? There is a link in the description. Definitely subscribe. That is 50 lakhs, your play money. How is that going by the way? Angel investments and other investments? I have lost a lot of money in angel investments. I have lost a little bit of money in crypto
as well.

But the biggest problem in angel investments
is that it is extremely illiquid. There is no honesty. So, I had put 3 lakh rupees in a company in
2019. In 2021, it became 45 lakh rupees. Ravi Handa is happy that it is done. Did you get an exit? Exit? The company closed in 2023. It became zero. Oh shit. So, that is the problem with angel investment. That's why you have allocated an amount which you yourself have called play money. Correct. Any other milestones that you have covered? No, these two. 8.5 cr was your FIRE number. You said that you started investing a huge
amount since 2015. You started investing or saving more. From 2006 to 2015, did you manage to save any portion of your
salary? Yes, we were always saving more than 50-60%. We used to save this much. So, it was business, revenue was high, that's
why you didn't save. It was something which was there. Your expenses were always lower than what
you were earning. So, have you accumulated the 8.5 cr ? A little bit more than that. Very nice. How much percentage of that, if you are comfortable
sharing, how much percentage has come from selling
your company and how much percentage of the proportion
has come from your savings? I would say that selling the company probably
gave me 20-25%.

Which basically means that this was not a
result of a certain event. No, no. So, this was because my business was successful. The second factor was that my expenses were
very low. The third factor was that I always had substantial
investment in equity. The fourth factor is where I would say the
selling of the company comes in. The main money that was made was made by business. And let's say if you were doing your software
job, you would have been in the top positions, In that case, do you think this much wealth
accumulation would have been possible? If I was in India, then no. If I had gone abroad, then I would have been
way ahead of this.

Is that one of those things that you would,
you know, you look back and want to change? I regret it every week. If I had been a good student, if I had studied
in college, then I wouldn't have been in the coaching
line. I would have moved to the US or Canada or
Europe or somewhere after college. I can't believe that you are saying that you are not content with what you have achieved
financially. I am absolutely content with what I have achieved. Because I have bounced back from the mistakes
of not studying in college. Yeah. The 8.5 cr that you have accumulated, that too, what are the percentages where you
have invested? My current net worth would be somewhere between
12-13 cr. Out of this, 1-1.5 crore rupees, which is
my 4-5 years of expenses, I keep it in absolutely liquid low risk investments. So, this is my cash bucket. In the medium term bucket, I have taken a
balance advantage fund. I have long term bonds, gilt funds, which is another 4-5 years of expenses. So, a mix of equity and debt. Third bucket, which is my long term bucket, another, I believe, 6-7 crores would be in
that and then there is a piece of land that I own
which is around 2 cr.

Tell me one thing, how to go about it? Primarily if you are young you need to save,
develop as a habit sort of a thing but your focus should be on making money. Where will you earn money from? Either you will grow in a job or you will
join risky jobs like startups to get ESOPs or you leave the country, you go abroad you
earn a lot more there, you save a lot more there and you come
back and you know you can be in a very good situation or what you do is you get a higher
degree.

Suppose you have done engineering, MBA, Masters
in Engineering, there are plenty of avenues. Your main focus should be on making more and
more and more money. Because after one point your expenses can't
get less. So if you want to increase the alpha, the
difference in income and expenses that will only happen if you are constantly focusing on increasing
the top line. Let's say I have decided that I want to retire
early. What was the framework? What were some of the thought processes? One according to me even hoping for planning
for early retirement is sort of accepting a failure that you couldn't make your career
in your life better that's why you are going towards retirement. Yes financial independence is important, early
retirement is not. If you are in a job that you like, that you
enjoy or I will say if you are in a job or in a career that you don't hate, do not think
about early retirement. Early retirement became important for me because
I wasn't liking what I was doing.

So this is our quick finance round. You have to answer the questions as soon as
possible. If you had an unlimited budget, what would
you gift your wife? Vacation, luxury vacation. If money was out of consideration which in
your case holds true, what would you do for a living? I don't know I will keep experimenting with
it which is what I am doing right now. And the last question is for people who want
to achieve financial independence and you know are seeking early retirement, what are
2-3 nuggets of advice that you would share with them? For financial independence, increasing your
income as much as possible that should be your priority. The second priority should be that bulk of
your savings should go into equity. If you are chasing early retirement, I think
that is a bad chase to have. That should be, that is like surgery, that
should be the last option. Try changing your job, try changing the city
you work in, try changing the country you work in, try changing your careers. If there is no avenue, that is when you think
about early retirement.

Alright, that brings us to the end of the
episode. Thank you so much for sharing your journey. I am sure that a lot of people have learnt
a lot from today's episode and video. Make sure to check out his YouTube channel. Every month at least 2-3 videos are made on
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Is 1 Crore Enough To Retire? How to plan your retirement?

Hi friends, welcome to Yadnya investment academy. We are going to talk about a topic of financial planning on Friday. And today's topic is very interesting. Because this question is asked regularly on many social media channels and workshops. That people have an amount in their mind that is 1 crore rupees. We think that if we have 1 crore rupees, our life will be good. So this question remains in the mind that if I have 1 crore rupees, can I retire now? Am I financially free? I don't have any tension of retirement now. Now whatever work I am doing is extra. So that 1 crore rupees is enough. And if you have retired now and got EPF money and total is 1 crore is it enough for you? And if it is enough or not, how much can you spend in both questions, when is enough and when is not. We will touch on all those things in this video. I will explain everything through a calculator. You can check that calculator on our website investyadnya.in as well. We cover many topics of financial planning in this session. If you want to make your own financial plan, then go to investyadnya.in website There are many products related to financial planning.

There are 1 to 1 sessions as well. You can check that out. Now I am going to my website and I am sure you can see my screen. If you go to the tool and calculator, here you can see the retirement calculator. I don't think you will get this anywhere else. Now the question is, suppose I have 1 crore rupees, is it enough for me to retire? First of all, I will be asked what is my age? I am just giving an example, 50. Suppose I am 50 years old, what is my life expectancy? It is important to know when you will be retiring. I think we should keep it around 90. I am keeping it at 90. How much is the expense now? If you are retiring and you have 1 crore rupees, how much do you want to spend? What is your monthly or annual expense? Suppose I am thinking that I have 6 lakh rupees. I have put 6 lakh rupees here.

How much inflation are you assuming? How much will my expenses increase every year? If India's inflation is around 6-7%, then you can assume that. Suppose 7% inflation till the end of life. Current asset, how much money do I have? I will put 1 crore rupees here. I have 1 crore rupees here. I will put that here. How do you invest this 1 crore rupees? How much return will you be able to earn? This is a very important question. What type of investment do you want to put? Do you want to put it in PPF? Do you want to put it in Senior Citizen Savings Scheme? Or do you want to put it in FDs? Or do you want to create a portfolio of Mutual Funds like Hybrid Equity Funds? This is very important.

Let's take all the scenarios. Suppose I want to put it in FDs. I don't want to do anything special. I will get 7% return in FDs. Whatever is the post tax. Or whatever you think. You get 7.5% but let's keep 7% for calculation. Let's keep 7.5%. Let's keep 8%. We have put it in bonds, Senior Citizen Savings Scheme. And there is some money in EPF. So, we have kept some money in equity. So, my 8% will earn 1 crore rupees corpus. Which is 1% over inflation. I have taken 7% inflation and 8% returns. I have to put these 6 fields first. If I submit this, My retirement corpus is in deficit of 1 crore. This means that I need 1 crore more to develop this scenario.

If I am 50 years old and I have 6 lakhs per month. And 7% inflation. And 8% growth. I need 2 crores. 1 crore is not enough. Now, let's change the scenario. What should I do if I am not able to do it. I can either reduce it. I don't spend Rs 50,000 per month. I can do 30,000. Then we can change the amount. We have done 36,000. And then we have put this change. So, 21 lakhs is still less. So, basically it will come to 3 lakhs. So, now our retirement corpus is only 67,000 less. So, I can spend 3 lakhs per year. If I can spend Rs 25,000 per month. And if I take 7% inflation. And 8% growth. Then 1 crore is enough in 50. If I spend 25,000. If I spend 50,000 with same scenario. Then I will need 1 crore. Now, you will say that I invest in mutual funds.

I know investing well. And I think that my corpus can earn 10%. If 7% is inflation. Then I think that my corpus can earn 10% per annum. Like our approach. You must have seen many videos on retirement. If you want to understand anything. Then put it in the comment section. If I think that I can do 10%. So, let's try it on 6% after spending 3 lakhs. So, now our corpus will be 47 lakhs. So, it means that I can spend 4 lakhs or 4.5 lakhs. So, 4.2 or 4.3. Means I can spend around Rs 35,000 per month. If I can earn 10% return. Now, you will say that I have already retired. I am 60 years old. And now tell me what is this scenario. So, in that I can spend 50,000 per month.

So, in 60 years also if you are earning 10% return. Then there is a deficit of 24 lakhs. If this scenario plays. You say that I have inflation. I don't spend much. 50,000 per month. Next year, I will grow according to 5%. Then it is good. 5% inflation, 10% rate of return, 1 crore rupees. You have enough. You have just enough. So, you can spend 50,000 per month. If you are 60 years old, you will get that money for 90 years. Now, there is one more thing.

Many people think that I have a pension. I have a house. He is giving rental. Or I am getting pension. Suppose you are getting pension of Rs 10,000 per month. Means it comes more than that. But I think 10,000 per month. So, I am getting a pension of 1,20,000. And we will make it 7 again. Is there any growth of pension? It seems that 2-3% growth is there. So, let's grow it by 3%. Till when will the pension come? Will it come till 90? Will it come till life expectancy or will it come soon? Many times, for limited time, money is going to come.

So, we sell those things. Rental is going to come. I have to sell that house after 10 years. So, you can put that also. So, I have to get pension till last. Till 90. So, then in 6 lakhs, 7% inflation, 1 crore, 10% and all. So, then almost I am there. Means 3 lakhs is the only deficit left. So, in this way, you can find out that the money you have, is it enough for your retirement? So, now you can change the amount. If you have 2 crore, 3 crore or 50 lakhs, then you can change the amount.

Accordingly, you can find out how much expense I will have after retirement, my work will go smoothly till life expectancy which I have planned. So, this will be very very helpful for you. So, if you like Calculator, then do share this video with everyone. I think this will be very helpful to many people in retirement planning. And from the perspective of financial freedom also.

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How much do you need to retire

My father retired in 1991 after 39 years as a high school teacher. His pension, along with my mother’s pension and their social security checks, added up to more than they spent every month. Dad never had to ask himself whether he’d saved enough to retire. He simply needed to work enough years to get his pension. In 1991, most people with pension plans had traditional defined benefit pensions, pensions that paid a monthly income until you died. These days, most workers with pension plans have defined contribution plans, such as 401(k) plans. Workers own the money in their retirement accounts. But they have to figure out for themselves whether it’s enough to retire. How much retirement savings you need to retire is going to depend upon how old you are when you retire, how much social security you collect, what additional income you have in retirement, and how much you spend each year. Let’s look at an example of how to calculate retirement saving needs.

Jocelyn is 55 and single. Her annual total salary is $44,000 a year. She plans to retire on her 70th birthday. To estimate how much money she needs to save to retire at 70, Jocelyn first writes down her current annual spending by category. Your own categories may be more or less detailed than hers. Jocelyn goes through her financial records, including her checkbook and her credit card statements for the last year, to figure out how much she spent on what. On the W2 form that her employer sent her at the beginning of the year, she sees that she paid $3,366 in FICA and Medicare taxes. Her state and federal income taxes were $4,000. She contributed $6,000 to her 401(k) retirement savings. She funded her rainy day account years ago and didn’t add to it last year. Jocelyn’s employer currently pays for her medical and disability insurance. Her out-of-pocket medical expenses last year, including medications, were $1,000. Rent, $15,600. Phone and utilities, $2,400. Groceries, $3,600. She spent $1,200 eating out and $1,000 on entertainment and travel. Auto maintenance cost her $1,000, auto insurance, $800, and gas, $1,000. She spent $1,200 on clothing and personal items. Jocelyn spent $600 on gifts and gave $600 to charity.

Her renters insurance and other expenses were $634. Jocelyn now goes through her list and asks herself which expenses are likely to change after she retires. She won’t pay FICA and Medicare taxes after retiring. That’s one big savings. Her state and federal income taxes will be lower. As we’ll see, most of Jocelyn’s retirement income will be her social security benefits. And at Jocelyn’s income level, less than half of her social security will be subject to federal income taxes. After she retires, Jocelyn will no longer contribute to her 401(k) retirement savings account. However, she does plan to set aside $3,000 a year for unexpected expenses.

She will pay $1,500 a year for her Medicare Part B and D coverage. And her out-of-pocket medical expenses will likely increase as she ages. Jocelyn expects most of her other expenses to stay about the same after she retires. Two exceptions are that she’s going to spend less money on gas, since she’ll no longer be driving to work, and she plans to spend more on travel. All together, Jocelyn expects to spend about $37,134 a year after she retires. Jocelyn looks up her projected social security benefits on the Social Security website. If she starts claiming benefits at age 62, she’ll receive $11,700 in today’s dollars each year. If she claims at 67, she’ll get $17,556 a year. And if she waits until 70 to receive Social Security, she’ll receive $22,320 a year.

She’ll get nearly twice the annual income if she claims social security at 70 rather than 62. Jocelyn is healthy. And her mother lived into her 90s. Her biggest financial fear is that she might outlive her savings. Waiting until 70 to claim social security is one of the most cost effective ways to provide additional income in old age. And that’s what Jocelyn decides to do. Jocelyn will spend $37,134 a year in retirement and receive $22,320 in social security benefits. That leaves her with $14,814 to fund out of her retirement savings.

That’s in today’s dollars. When Jocelyn retires in 15 years, everything will cost more because of inflation. Fortunately, social security benefits are indexed to inflation. So her social security income will rise about as fast as her expenses do. However, in 15 years, she will need more than $14,814 to make up the difference between her social security and what she plans to spend. How much more? Over the last 25 years, inflation in the United States has been about 2.5% a year. If that trend continued, Jocelyn’s $14,814 in annual expenses will be about $21,500 in 15 years.

You can calculate that by multiplying 14,814 by 1.025 to the 15th power, which equals 21,455. Alternatively, you can use one of many future inflation calculators available online. Jocelyn decides to be a bit more conservative in her projections. And she assumes that her expenses will go up by 3% a year, not 2.5%. Let’s use an online calculator to see how much $14,814 will grow to in 15 years with 3% inflation. Enter the expected inflation rate of 3% a year for 15 years and a starting amount or a present value of $14,814. With inflation of 3%, Jocelyn will need about $23,000 a year in income beyond her social security when she retires in 15 years. So how much savings will Jocelyn need to provide $23,000 in income when she’s 70? In a video on spending in retirement, I suggest that people apply the RMD spending rule.

That is, each year spend no more from your retirement savings than the required minimum distribution mandated by the IRS. The rule can also be used to estimate how much savings you need to provide a level of income. To do so, look up the RMD withdrawal factor for the age at which you plan to retire. You can find this on RMD calculators such as the one on investor.gov. Or you can look it up on the IRS website. Multiply the annual income you’ll need by the withdrawal factor. And that gives you the amount of savings you’ll need to generate that annual income under the RMD rule. In Jocelyn’s case, let’s keep things simple and assume that her birthday is in January. Her RMD withdrawal factor the year in which she retires, also the year in which she turns 70 and 1/2, will be 27.4.

times $23,000 is $630,200. So Jocelyn’s going to need about $630,000 in savings plus her social security to support her anticipated expenses when she retires. Put differently, the year she retires, Jocelyn’s required minimum distribution will be 3.65% of her retirement savings. And $23,000 is 3.65% of $630,200. So that’s it. Estimate how much you’re going to spend in retirement. Subtract your estimated social security benefits from that, as well as any other income you’re going to have in retirement. And that gives you the expenses that you need to fund through your savings. Adjust these expenses for inflation between now and when you retire. And multiply by your RMD withdrawal factor the year that you retire. This will give you an estimate of how much money you’re going to need when you retire.

Of course, your situation may be more complicated than Jocelyn’s. For example, if you own your home and have a fixed rate mortgage, your mortgage expenses won’t increase with inflation and will end when you pay off your mortgage. So calculate future mortgage expenses separately from your other expenses. Furthermore, if you own your home this gives you additional savings. What if you plan to retire before 70? Required minimum distributions start the year you turn 70 and 1/2. If you are thinking of retiring a few years earlier, I suggest using a withdrawal rate of 33.

That is, multiply the annual expenses you’re going to need to cover from your retirement savings by 33 to get the amount of savings you’ll need. If you are planning to retire many years before you turn 70, you’re probably not watching this video. What if there is no way for you to save enough to fund the retirement you’d like? That’s a tough problem, but not an uncommon one. To have more income in retirement, wait until 70 to claim social security benefits. Also, consider working a few more years before you retire, looking for part time work after you retire, taking in a roommate, or reducing your spending. Planning for retirement is much harder today than when my father was teaching at Mahtomedi High School. The change from traditional defined benefit pensions to 401(k) retirement plans has shifted the responsibility and risk of funding retirements from employers to individuals. You have to decide how much to save, how to invest your savings, and how much you need to retire. This video may help you figure out the minimum you’ll need to retire. But you will continue to bear the risk that your investments do poorly or that you live longer than expected.

So if you possibly can, try to retire with more than the minimum. .

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