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Kevin O’Leary: Why Early Retirement Doesn’t Work

This whole idea of financial independence retire early doesn't work. Let me tell you why. It happened to me. On the sale of my
first company, I achieved great liquidity and I
thought to myself, "Hey. I'm 36. I can retire now." I retired for three years. I was bored out of my mind. Working is not
just about money. People don't understand this very
often until they stop working. Work defines who you are. It provides a place where
you're social with people. It gives you interaction with people
all day long in an interesting way. It even helps you live longer
and is very, very good for brain health. Staying stimulated is how people
live into their 90s. I'm not kidding. So when am I retiring? Never. Never. I don't know where I'm going
after I'm dead, but I'll be working when I get there too.

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Can I Retire at 55? Tips for Early Retirement

If you're thinking of retiring at 55, you want to be careful about where you get your advice and guidance, and that's because most retirement advice is geared toward those who retire quite a bit later, in fact… Most people retire at 62, but things will be different for you if you're going to retire at 55. So that's what we'll talk about for the next couple of minutes here, we'll go over where you can get the money from, and how that works with taxes as well as healthcare, then we'll look at some actual numbers and what it might look like for somebody who retires at age 55.

We might also want to get philosophical just briefly and ask the question, Why age 55? Yes, it's a nice round number. And there are some interesting tax strategies that are available around that age, but let's say you could retire a little bit earlier at 54, would you want to make that happen? Or if you worked a few more years… I know you'll think this is crazy, but if you worked a couple of more years and you could not impact your finances, but still take some of those dream vacations and spend time with loved ones, would that be worth it to maybe work until 59, for example? So we want to figure out exactly why you are pursuing a particular goal and then we can improve the chances of success for you, so let's start with health coverage, this is a tricky one because you're retiring quite a bit earlier than most people who might be near that Medicare age, so you have a number of different options to continue being covered, and it is a good idea to have real health insurance coverage just in case something happens.

So a couple of your choices include, number one, you can continue your current benefits from a job if you have them for up to 18 months in most cases, and that's under COBRA or your state's continuation program, that can get quite expensive because you're going to pay the full price, if you weren't already doing that, plus perhaps a teeny little bit extra for administration, but it is a way to continue with the program that you currently have, so that can be helpful if you are mid stream in certain treatments or if it's going to be hard to get certain benefits that you currently have on a different health care program, unfortunately, that's not usually a long term solution because we need to get you until age 65, which is when most people enroll in Medicare, and you should see your costs go down quite a bit at that point, maybe depending on what happens, so another solution that a lot of people look at is buying their own coverage, and that happens typically through a healthcare marketplace or an exchange, and that's where you just by coverage through an insurance company.

So you can go directly to the insurers, but it's often a good idea to go through… Start at healthcare.gov, and then go through the marketplace or the exchange, and that way you can shop some plans and potentially, depending on your income, you can potentially get some cost reductions that make it a lot more affordable, I'll talk more about that in a second, but another option is to switch to a spouse's plan, if you happen to be married and that person has coverage that's going to continue for whatever reason, that might also be a solution for you, when you leave your job, it could be a qualifying event that allows you to get on that person's program, but let's talk more about saving money on health care expenses before age 65, most people are going to buy a policy based on the factors that are most important to them, so that could be the premium or the out of pocket maximum, the deductible, the co pays, certain areas of coverage, all that kind of thing, you can select a plan that fits your needs.

Now, you might find that those tend to be quite expensive, and so if your income is below certain levels, you might be able to get effectively a reduction in the premium, it might be in the form of a tax credit or a subsidy, so here's just a preview of how things could look for you, let's say your income is, let's say 50,000 in retirement, and you need to look at exactly what income means, but there is no coverage available from a spouse, we've got one adult, and let's say you are… As our video suggest age 55 here, so you might get a benefit of roughly 422 a month, meaning you could spend that much less each month, and that's going to make it a lot easier to pay for coverage on these plans, if we switch your income down to 25,000 per year, the help is even bigger, so as you can see by varying or controlling your income, and this is something you might have some control over if you retire at 55, you can also control your healthcare costs, we'll talk about some conflicting goals here, where you might not want to absolutely minimize your income during these years, but this is important for you to know if you're going to be paying for your own coverage, and if you're experiencing sticker shock when you see the prices…

By the way, I'm going to have a link to this and a bunch of other resources in the description below, so you can play with this same calculator yourself. Now, once you're on Medicare, the cost should drop quite a bit, this is a calculator from Fidelity where we can say, let's say you are a female, and we're going to say you're eligible for Medicare at this point, so we'll bring you up to age 65. It is going to be quite a bit higher cost, if you look at it before age 65, and that's because you are paying for those private policies from insurance companies, let's say you're going to live until age 93, and so you might expect to spend roughly 5800 6000 bucks per year, depending on your health and your location and other factors, it could be more or less, but this is an estimate of what somebody might spend, a single woman each year in retirement, of course, that number is going to increase each year with inflation and deteriorating health issues.

But this is a ballpark estimate of what you might be spending in the future, now we get to the question of, do you have the financial resources to retire at 55? And that comes down to the income and the assets that you're going to draw from to provide the resources you need to buy the things you want and need, and one way to look at this is to say We want to avoid early withdrawal penalties because again, you are retiring at an age that's earlier than the typical retiree and most retirement accounts are designed for you to take withdrawals at 59.5 or later, to avoid those penalties, fortunately, you have a couple of options, so with individual and joint accounts, just taxable brokerage accounts, you can typically withdraw from those without any penalties, but you may have capital gains taxes when you sell something, those taxes may be at a lower rate than you would pay if you take big withdrawals from retirement accounts, but you just want to double and triple check that, but that can be a liquid source of funds.

You. Can also typically withdraw from Roth accounts pretty easily. So those regular contributions come out first, in other words, you can pull out your regular contributions at any time with no taxes and no penalties, what that means is that's the annual limit contributions you might have been making her by year, so the 7000 per year, for example. That money would be easily accessible, but if you have other money types like Roth conversions, for example, you're going to be very careful and check with your CPA and find out what all of that could look like. There. Are other ways to get at funds that are inside of pre tax retirement accounts, and it might actually make sense to draw on those to some extent, we'll talk more about that in a minute, but these are some of the tricks you can use to avoid an early withdrawal penalty yet still draw on those assets before age 59.5.

The first one is the so called rule of 55, so this applies if you work at a job with, let's say a 401K, and you stop working at that employer at age 55 or later, if you meet certain criteria, then you can withdraw those funds from the 401k so they go directly from the 401k to you. They don't go over to an IRA, you could withdraw those funds without an early withdrawal penalty. A complication here is that not every employer allows you to do that, so 401k plans can set a bunch of their own rules, and one of them might be that they don't let you just call them up and take money whenever you want, they might make you… Withdraw the entire amount, so if that's the case, this isn't going to work, so be sure to triple check with your employer and the plan vendors and find out exactly how this would work logistically or if it will even work.

Next, we have SEPP that stands for substantially equal periodic payments or rule 72. This is an opportunity to draw funds from, let's say your IRA or a certain IRA that you choose, but before age 59 and a half without getting early withdrawal penalties. Now, this is not my favorite choice. I don't necessarily recommend this very often at all, and the reason is because it's easy to slip up and end up paying tax penalties. The reason for that is in part that it's really rigid, so when you establish this, You calculate an amount that you have to take out every year, and it has to be the same amount every year, and you have to make sure you do that for the longer of when you turn age 59 1/2 or for five years.

And even that sounds kind of simple, but it's still easy to trip up, and you also have to avoid making any kind of changes to your accounts, so it's just really rigid and can be difficult to stick to you, so… Not my favorite choice, but it could be an option. Those of you who work for governmental bodies, maybe a city organization or something like that, you might have a 457b plan, and those plans do not have early withdrawal penalties before 59 and a half, so you could withdraw money from that and use some income, pre pay some taxes, and have some money to spend fairly easily, this by the way, is an argument for leaving money in your employer's 457 versus rolling it over to an IRA, because once it goes over to an IRA, you are subject to those 59 1/2 rules and a potential early withdrawal penalty.

So that could end up leaving you with 72 to work with, for example, which again is not ideal. So you might be asking, well shouldn't I just minimize taxes and hold off on paying taxes for as long as possible? And the answer is not necessarily. So it could make sense to go ahead and pre pay some taxes by getting strategic, the reason for that is that you will eventually have to pay taxes on your pre tax money and it might happen in a big lump, and that can bump you up into the highest tax brackets, so it could be better to smooth out the rate at which you draw from those accounts and hopefully keep yourself in lower tax bracket, at least relatively speaking. So when your RMDs or your required minimum distributions kick in after age 72 under current law, that could possibly bump you up into the highest tax brackets, maybe you want to smooth things out and take some income early.

So let's look at the question of, Do you have enough with some specific numbers, and before we glance at those numbers, just want to mention that I am Justin Pritchard. I help people plan for retirement and invest for the future. I've got some good resources, I think, in the description below, some of the things that we've been talking about here today, as well as some general retirement planning information. So if this is on your mind, I think a lot of that is going to be really helpful for you. Please take a look at that and let me know what you think of what you find. It's also a good time for a friendly reminder, This is just a short video, I can't possibly cover everything. So please triple and quadruple check with some professionals like a CPA or a financial advisor before you make any decisions, so let's get back into these questions, Do you have enough? As we always need to mention, it depends on where you are and how much you spend and how things work for you. Are you lucky to retire into a good market, or are you unlucky and retiring into a bad market? All of these different aspects are going to affect your success, but let's jump over to my financial planning tool and take a look at an example.

This is just a hypothetical example, it's the world's most over simplified example, so please keep that in mind, with a real person, we've got a lot more going on. The world is a complicated place and things get messier, but we're keeping it very simple here, just to talk about an example of how things might look, so this person has one million in pre tax assets and 350,000 in a brokerage account, and if we just quickly glance at their dashboard here, pretty high probability of success, so let's make it a little bit more interesting and say…

Maybe that IRA has, let's say, 700,000 in it. What is that going to do? And by the way, this is still a lot more than a lot of people have, but again, if you're going to be retiring at 55, you typically have quite low expenses and/or a lot of assets. So let's keep in mind here that retirees don't necessarily spend at a flat inflation adjusted level, and I'll get into the assumptions here in a second, but let's just look at if this person spends at inflation minus 1% using the retirement spending "smile," that dramatically improves their chances, and I've got videos on why you might consider that as a potential reality, so you can look into that later at your leisure, but as far as the assumptions, we assume they spend about 50,000 a year, retire at age 55.

The returns are 5.5% per year, and inflation is 3% per year. Wouldn't that be refreshing if we got 3%… So we glance at their income here age 55, nothing, and then Social Security kicks in at 70. They're doing a Social Security bridge strategy. I've got videos on that as well, or at least one video, the full year kicks in here later, and then their Social Security adjust for inflation, looking at their taxes, we have zero taxes in these earlier years because they are just not pulling from those pre tax accounts. Maybe not getting much, if anything, in terms of capital gains, maybe their deduction is wiping that out, so we may have an opportunity here to actually do something and again, pre pay some taxes and pull some taxable income forward. In fact, if we glance at their federal income tax bracket, you can see that it's fairly low from 55 on, maybe they want to pull some of this income forward so that later in life, they are drawing everything out of the pre tax accounts all at once.

It just depends on what's important to you and what you want to try to do, and that brings us to some tips for doing calculations, whether you are doing this with somebody, a financial planner or on your own, you want to look at that gap between when you stop working and when your income benefits begin from, let's say, Social Security, there's also that gap between when you stop working and when Medicare starts, and that's another important thing to look at, but what are your strategies available there? Should you take some income, and exactly how much? That's going to be an area where you might have some control, so it's worth doing some good planning. We also want to look closely at the inflation and investment returns, and what are the assumptions in any software that you're using, for example? These are really important inputs and they can dramatically change what happens… You saw what happened when we switched from a flat inflation adjusted increase each year to the retirement spending smile, just a subtle little adjustment has a big difference on how things unfold, and in that scenario, by the way, we would typically have healthcare increasing at a faster rate.

But like I said, we use an over simplified example and didn't necessarily include that in this case, but you do want to click through or ask questions on what exactly are the assumptions and are you on board with those assumptions? You may also need to make some adjustments, and this is just the reality of retiring at an early age when you may have 30 plus years of retirement left, a lot can happen, and there really is a lot of benefit to making slight adjustments, especially during market crashes, for example, so.

If things are not necessarily going great, some little tweaks could potentially improve the chances of success substantially, that might mean something as simple as skipping an inflation adjustment for a year or two, or maybe dialing back some vacation spending. These are things you don't want to do, that's for sure, but with those little adjustments, you can potentially keep things on track, and that way you don't have to go back to work or make bigger sacrifices. And so I hope you found that helpful. If you did, please leave a quick thumbs up, thank you and take care..

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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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How to Plan for Early Retirement: Exclusive Retirement Calculator

When someone says the word Retirement, what comes to your mind? Is it the age at which you would probably retire or is it the bank balance that you would have or the abundant time you will have to do whatever you like doing. I think it's a combination of all three. Because all these three require lots and lots of money. Yes, in today’s video we will talk about how you can retire successfully and can generate enough corpus that your lifestyle does not get affected at all. Hi, I'm Samarth, for the past 11 years, I have been working in the finance industry and I'm currently the investments lead at wint wealth. Retirement, it should essentially mean financial freedom. In today’s example we will assume that you started your job or career at 22 or 23 years of age. And as of today, your age is 30 years. For the next 20 years, we are assuming that you'll continue your active line of work, essentially meaning that you will retire by the age of 50. Wait, wait, wait! I know you might be wondering that this video was for early retirement.

See the idea is to let you know that what should be the method for retirement calculation. If you are a little aggressive on that, you might retire by 40 itself or by 45. It all depends on your consistency and your persistence. For the time being , we have calculated this on a very conservative way and hence 50 has been considered as the retirement age. So now we'll be focusing on the example and for this we will be looking at the excel sheet. By the way, this Excel sheet that you can see on the screen can be downloaded using the link in the description and also help us know in the comments if you found this Excel sheet to be useful. Infact, you can also download sheet right now and use it live while watching the video. You can change the numbers and see if it is suiting you and how it can help you to achieve your retirement.

We have assumed that your current age is 30 years. And you started your work life or your career or your job around 22 or 23 years of age. You want to retire at the age of 50 years, your life expectancy is around 80 years. Now because you have already worked for around 7-7.5 years, we are assuming that you have saved roughly two to two and a half lakh per year, so your total savings as on date would be 16 Lakh Rupees. How is this split? Majority portion of investment is done in mutual funds. I too personally, when I started my career, so majority savings (up to 80-90%) I used to do in mutual funds. And I used to split them into growth mutual funds and a small part into dividend mutual funds. After that since you are doing a job, you will contribute towards EPF. So we have assumed that this is around three lakh rupees. For emergency fund, you have kept some money into FD or bank balance, which is around two lakh rupees, and then remaining money, you have explored another debt option that is public provident fund and under this you have invested two lakh rupees.

Basis our assumption and calculation, on this entire corpus of 16 Lakh Rupees up to the age of retirement, that is for the next 20 years, you will generate 10% returns. So this 16 Lakh Rupees will get converted to 1.15 Crore Rupees. Yes, You heard it right. Believe me, if you do the savings consistently and in a discipline way, your Corpus becomes massive slowly. By the time I had completed five years in my job, I had enough money to pay for my car all in cash. But does that mean that mean, I did so? No. By the way, if you want to know if it makes sense for you to buy a car or use services like Ola and Uber, please watch this video. Now we are assuming that your monthly take home salary is one lakh rupees.

And out of this 60,000, that is 60% of your take home salary is spent by you. After that how much would be your savings? 40,000 Rupees. Now if you keep saving this monthly, consistently in a discipline way, then you can easily generate the amount of corpus such that during your retirement life, you can manage your lifestyle very easily and won’t be financially dependent on anyone. Next assumption which we have taken is that on your salary you will get an increment of around 8%. I know you might be feeling that the 8% figure is too high but you must also consider that although there might be years when you get only 5% or 7%.

I really wish you never get so low increments, but there will be years when you will switch your job or get promotion, when your increment might be 20%, 25%. During your pre retirement age, that is up to the age of 50 years we have assumed that years care, return 10% on the amount which you're investing and on the corpus, which you already have save. Then after retirement this figure drops to 7%. I know you must be thinking this is low, but considering that after retirement your priority will be to save capital and also beat inflation to maintain your lifestyle 7% is a very healthy number.

One very important assumption that we have taken is that after retirement there will be a lot of expenses that you won't be incurring. For example, your petrol and traveling expense will reduce substantially. Then it is also true that services like internet where you require a speed of 1 GB currently, will come down to 100 or 200 MBPS then. So that will reduce your expenses. And there are many other such expenses.

Okay. So we have assumed that there will be reduction of around 20% to your expenses post retirement. All these expenses have been adjusted against inflation at the rate of 6%. There are many such expenses which are incurred once or twice in our lifetime. One of them being expenses for sending your child for higher education. If on today’s date, you send your child for higher education so may be you will spend around 30-32 Lakh Rupees, to send the child at a very good institution. This we have assumed that when you will be 52 years old, this expense will occur and at that time, considering the inflation of 6%, this will be around 96 lakh rupees. Now that you have sent your child for higher education, then after he gets settled, probably he or she will get married.

Right? We have assumed that if today you got for their marriage then you will end up spending around 25 Lakh Rupees. According to your assumptions, this event will occur when you will be 60 years old. At that point of time, you will be spending around 80 Lakh Rupees. So this also has been built in, in this model. Last but not the least and definitely one of the most important is: medical expenses. As and when you age increases, simultaneously your medical needs will also probably increase. I really wish, this doesn’t happen but it is quite possible. So on a conservative basis, we have assumed that by the time you turn 65, you might end up needing a medical expense budget of around 50 lakh rupees. Right? Which up till then will be around 1.6 Crores, right. 35 years from now, it would be around 1.60 crores. So assuming all of this if you see all this calculation, then you will find that you would probably end up needing around 8.25 Crore Rupees as your Corpus so that you can retire comfortably. If you are able to generate this corpus by investing around 40% of your salary basis the following assumptions, month to month, year on year in instruments, which help you generate good returns like mutual funds and corporate bonds for the early starters, and then slowly and slowly moving towards more of conservative investments, where you can easily generate 9.5-9.7%, then you'll be able to achieve this corpus and basis this calculation, that you can see in the third sheet post retirement, you will see that even after you turn 80 years of age around around one crude Rupe, you will still be left with.

So if you save in a disciplined way, start investments, then you can easily achieve your retirement. Under this sheet, you can also put your other additional expenses basis your age. If you will see we have provided Additional 1 to Additional 8 blank spaces, as when you enter there it'll automatically get calculated and you will keep getting the results. The larger your retirement corpus, easier will be your retirement life, the more you will be able to afford to give to your family and enjoy the moments with them. This is why Savings are important. This is why retirement planning is important. And if you're worried to know how you can make your portfolio stronger and better in this video, we have discussed few revenue streams, which will help you generate passive income along with maintaining the safety of your portfolio until you meet next time. Happy Winting!
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Mastering the FIRE Method: The Ultimate Guide to Early Retirement & Financial Independence

at some point of time you would have thought of retiring early or maybe you're thinking of it now and truth be told retirement is not about abandoning work there are very few who would say I won't work any further but what we yearn for is the freedom to operate to live life in the way we want and that brings us to the five moment now fire stands for financial Independence retirement it's a very catchy acronym and to put it in a nutshell it's a program that's designed around saving aggressively investing in high return instruments like equities and disciplined withdrawals which put together ensures you have enough money to cover your living expenses for the rest of your life and therefore retire early in this video I shall be explaining the concept in Greater details we look at the implementation steps some calculations and why fire needs to be a deliberate part of your financial life this might be a short video but it's a very powerful concept so let's begin the concept of fire was popularized in a book titled your money or your life it was built around self-sufficiency control over one's time moderate consumption and of course living life outside the nine to five for instance this guy Pete atney who is better known as Mr Money Mustache applied the fire principles which allowed him to retire from his job as a software engineer at the age of 30.

He's 48 now and he continues to live comfortably of his Investments after so many years and it's not just Pete there are writers bloggers people traveling the world software developers and even YouTubers who are using these principles to lead a more open life and have attached some articles and videos in the description to that effect some of these stories are really inspirational and it proves the fact that a little bit of planning on the financial side can have a profound impact on other aspects of one's life and in a very positive way now there are three parts one needs to address when implementing a fire strategy the first step is savings and the hardcore fire disciple is expected to save anywhere from 50 to 70 percent of one's monthly income this is of course easier said than done and probably where a lot of people make up their mind that this is not their cup of tea but from what I have read and what I've experienced the saving need not be always defined as a percentage and we can also work with absolute numbers which we'll see when I come to the calculations part now when we hear the word saving our first reaction or response is on reducing our expenses however money can also be saved by upping one's income which is what I suggest and it does make sense right I mean there is a limit to what one can save but income generation has a much longer Runway and in our case it can include taking a part-time job doing some consultancy work asking for a pay hike changing jobs for a better salary reskilling oneself or of course starting a side hustle which can be a mix of active and passive work in fact I have a friend in Bangalore who works as a data scientist from Monday to Friday and then on the weekends he takes classes on an edtech platform and also does some consultancy work to put it in numbers what was earlier a monthly saving of 50 000 Rupees is now easily over 2 lakhs a month and this guy has absolutely changed his life around by leveraging what he knows so he's on fire metaphorically speaking and the the fire strategy encourages us to find creative and better ways of increasing our savings rate the Second Step under the fire strategy is to spend wisely notice I didn't say don't spend I said spend wisely which means you need to identify what is an essential expense and what can be tagged as discretionary now people who practice Fire have a ton of helpful advice for us these include driving a good used car instead of a new one renting versus buying a house cooking at home rather than eating out track your daily expenses cancel unnecessary subscriptions Etc from what I've read these small steps can reduce your monthly expenses by up to 30 percent which if you choose to look at it differently is like getting a 30 incremented salary so you don't have to be stinky when it comes to your expenses but try to be a bit more rational about it and the third and final pillar in the fire system is the investment part now on a basic level the system requires advisors to invest as much money as you can and as early as possible so it's the principle of compounding at work here and this table here is a handy guide to how well your Corpus expands when you give it the necessary capital and a decent amount of time to grow now the fire method keeps this investing part ridiculously simple one you invest some money every month or as we call it you set up an sip a systematic investment plan and secondly this money is invested in a low cost Index Fund or ETF which in our case is either the nifty 50 or maybe a slightly broader Nifty 500 Index so essentially the focus here is to participate in the equity markets rather than actively trying to beat it which by my Reckoning should Fetchers and analyze return of 12 to 13 percent again the idea here is to maximize the returns which is why equities have been suggested but if that makes you a little uncomfortable then you can also settle for a mix of different asset classes which is something I explained in my video on asset allocation a few weeks back yet another investment you can make which is encouraged under the fire movement is on account of passive income dividends from stocks interest from your fixed deposits income from your blog your podcast YouTube channel monetization rental income are just some ways of making an Roi from physical or virtual assets now notice I have put this part under Investments and not income because passive income does require a lot of upfront work but once you do the hard work and you do it well one can expect a continuous stream of income over the next few years which will not only support your early retirement Ambitions but will also act as a safety net in fact there is something called an fi Ratio or the financial Independence ratio which largely means if your passive income is greater than your expenses then you're making some great progress on the path to financial Independence so to sum it up remember fire has three simple principles that you need to work on which is save more spend less and invest wisely if you're getting good value from this video then please do give this video a thumbs up and if you aren't a subscriber yet then do consider becoming one as I can then serve you videos as soon as they are released and also share with you some investing strategies tips and stories that are continually Post in the community section the original fire formula is based on the four percent rule which is the amount of saving you can safely withdraw every year without worrying that your money will run out for example let's say you are 29 years old and your monthly expenses are around 50 000 rupees if you want to retire at 40 then you have 11 years to accumulate a retirement fund so here's the math if household inflation is likely to grow by eight percent per annum then the 50 000 you spend now will rise to 1 lakh 16 000 rupees by the time you're 40.

So annually this comes to 14 lakh rupees and per the four percent rule it's 14 multiplied by 25 which means you need to accumulate a couples of three and a half crores to safely navigate through your retirement years or at least that's what the fire formula says now in my view there are some gaps with this four percent rule that I think we should all be aware of firstly this rule is okay for someone who has factored 25 maybe 30 years of retirement but if the retirement Horizon goes higher let's say 50 years for example then this formula starts getting a bit shaky and I've pinned a research study by Vanguard on this in the video's description secondly the four percent rule is a United States origination of the 1990s and has been tested on a historical basis when the yields on equities and Bonds were sufficiently high now we are not Americans and what works there will most likely not work for us which means there's an asset allocation and a market performance risk which needs to be accounted for and finally because each of us have our own preferences income goals saving patterns Etc I always felt it's important to have a customized fire implementation plan rather than picking something off the shelf which is why I created my own fire calculator which gives a clearer picture of how much I need to accumulate when can I idly retire how much withdrawals can I do on a monthly basis and at what point and in what circumstances my retirement money can run out so this obviously starts with the inputs and you need to type in your current age the age at which you want to retire and of course your life expectancy which I hope is strong and long then comes your current portfolio of Investments and this includes your mutual funds fds ppf EPF gold and other stuff and as a best practice kindly exclude the cost of the house where you will be staying post your retirement if you're still working then input the monthly savings and the annual increase you foresee input the expected returns from your investment the capital gain tax that can remain at 10 percent and finally have a view on how much will your expenses be in the first year of retirement and the expected household inflation rate and once we have these numbers keyed in as I have shown in this example the resulting output should clearly tell us three things one the amount of investment Corpus we need at the time of retirement which in this illustration is 2.2 crores at the age of 40.

Secondly we now have Clarity on how much can be spent on an early basis which starts from 12 lakhs so that's one lakh per month and it increases by eight percent every year and thirdly we get to know how sound or unsound this entire construct is like in this case our calculation shows that I'll run out of my money by the time I am 64 years old which is another way of saying that I need to rework my fire math which can include an increase in the monthly savings and the growth rate I can also consider extending my retirement age to a higher number let's say 45 years and finally I I can be a little careful with my expenses and instead of spending a lack of rupees maybe I can make do with 90 000. so there are many permutations and combinations you can look at but my suggestion is try to be a little conservative in your estimates especially when it comes to return on investment the inflation rate and the post retirement monthly expenses now for your benefit I have enclosed the link of this worksheet in the video's description it's a downloadable sheet all the formulas are open so feel free to change the numbers improve the formula if required add your own customization if it helps you but have a clear idea on when and where you need to be on the path to financial Independence so when I first heard and read about fire I was not a big fan of it I mean saving 50 to 7 20 percent of one salary is almost next to Impossible and I would have shut sharp had I not realized that as a method fire is quite flexible and can be used in many different ways so the calculator is one way and you can make a customized version of it but then there are more strategies there are more variants of the fire strategy and if you are interested then do read up on lean fire fat fire Coast fire and a few more of these in related articles that I've Linked In the video's description the point is and I myself realized a very late in life that many of us don't know when to retire how much is needed to retire which is why we continue working in a role or occupation that we don't enjoy much and that's where I think fire as a strategy might be the solution and it's just three things right increase your income and savings lower your expenses and get your Investments right so read up more about this concept in the Articles and websites I've added in the description and I sincerely hope you practice some sort of fire going forward if you found this video useful then do press the like button do subscribe to my channel share this video and I'll see you three days from now until then foreign

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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
this topic. Subscribe to his channel and if you liked
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Mastering the FIRE Method: The Ultimate Guide to Early Retirement & Financial Independence

at some point of time you would have thought of retiring early or maybe you're thinking of it now and truth be told retirement is not about abandoning work there are very few who would say I won't work any further but what we yearn for is the freedom to operate to live life in the way we want and that brings us to the five moment now fire stands for financial Independence retirement it's a very catchy acronym and to put it in a nutshell it's a program that's designed around saving aggressively investing in high return instruments like equities and disciplined withdrawals which put together ensures you have enough money to cover your living expenses for the rest of your life and therefore retire early in this video I shall be explaining the concept in Greater details we look at the implementation steps some calculations and why fire needs to be a deliberate part of your financial life this might be a short video but it's a very powerful concept so let's begin the concept of fire was popularized in a book titled your money or your life it was built around self-sufficiency control over one's time moderate consumption and of course living life outside the nine to five for instance this guy Pete atney who is better known as Mr Money Mustache applied the fire principles which allowed him to retire from his job as a software engineer at the age of 30.

He's 48 now and he continues to live comfortably of his Investments after so many years and it's not just Pete there are writers bloggers people traveling the world software developers and even YouTubers who are using these principles to lead a more open life and have attached some articles and videos in the description to that effect some of these stories are really inspirational and it proves the fact that a little bit of planning on the financial side can have a profound impact on other aspects of one's life and in a very positive way now there are three parts one needs to address when implementing a fire strategy the first step is savings and the hardcore fire disciple is expected to save anywhere from 50 to 70 percent of one's monthly income this is of course easier said than done and probably where a lot of people make up their mind that this is not their cup of tea but from what I have read and what I've experienced the saving need not be always defined as a percentage and we can also work with absolute numbers which we'll see when I come to the calculations part now when we hear the word saving our first reaction or response is on reducing our expenses however money can also be saved by upping one's income which is what I suggest and it does make sense right I mean there is a limit to what one can save but income generation has a much longer Runway and in our case it can include taking a part-time job doing some consultancy work asking for a pay hike changing jobs for a better salary reskilling oneself or of course starting a side hustle which can be a mix of active and passive work in fact I have a friend in Bangalore who works as a data scientist from Monday to Friday and then on the weekends he takes classes on an edtech platform and also does some consultancy work to put it in numbers what was earlier a monthly saving of 50 000 Rupees is now easily over 2 lakhs a month and this guy has absolutely changed his life around by leveraging what he knows so he's on fire metaphorically speaking and the the fire strategy encourages us to find creative and better ways of increasing our savings rate the Second Step under the fire strategy is to spend wisely notice I didn't say don't spend I said spend wisely which means you need to identify what is an essential expense and what can be tagged as discretionary now people who practice Fire have a ton of helpful advice for us these include driving a good used car instead of a new one renting versus buying a house cooking at home rather than eating out track your daily expenses cancel unnecessary subscriptions Etc from what I've read these small steps can reduce your monthly expenses by up to 30 percent which if you choose to look at it differently is like getting a 30 incremented salary so you don't have to be stinky when it comes to your expenses but try to be a bit more rational about it and the third and final pillar in the fire system is the investment part now on a basic level the system requires advisors to invest as much money as you can and as early as possible so it's the principle of compounding at work here and this table here is a handy guide to how well your Corpus expands when you give it the necessary capital and a decent amount of time to grow now the fire method keeps this investing part ridiculously simple one you invest some money every month or as we call it you set up an sip a systematic investment plan and secondly this money is invested in a low cost Index Fund or ETF which in our case is either the nifty 50 or maybe a slightly broader Nifty 500 Index so essentially the focus here is to participate in the equity markets rather than actively trying to beat it which by my Reckoning should Fetchers and analyze return of 12 to 13 percent again the idea here is to maximize the returns which is why equities have been suggested but if that makes you a little uncomfortable then you can also settle for a mix of different asset classes which is something I explained in my video on asset allocation a few weeks back yet another investment you can make which is encouraged under the fire movement is on account of passive income dividends from stocks interest from your fixed deposits income from your blog your podcast YouTube channel monetization rental income are just some ways of making an Roi from physical or virtual assets now notice I have put this part under Investments and not income because passive income does require a lot of upfront work but once you do the hard work and you do it well one can expect a continuous stream of income over the next few years which will not only support your early retirement Ambitions but will also act as a safety net in fact there is something called an fi Ratio or the financial Independence ratio which largely means if your passive income is greater than your expenses then you're making some great progress on the path to financial Independence so to sum it up remember fire has three simple principles that you need to work on which is save more spend less and invest wisely if you're getting good value from this video then please do give this video a thumbs up and if you aren't a subscriber yet then do consider becoming one as I can then serve you videos as soon as they are released and also share with you some investing strategies tips and stories that are continually Post in the community section the original fire formula is based on the four percent rule which is the amount of saving you can safely withdraw every year without worrying that your money will run out for example let's say you are 29 years old and your monthly expenses are around 50 000 rupees if you want to retire at 40 then you have 11 years to accumulate a retirement fund so here's the math if household inflation is likely to grow by eight percent per annum then the 50 000 you spend now will rise to 1 lakh 16 000 rupees by the time you're 40.

So annually this comes to 14 lakh rupees and per the four percent rule it's 14 multiplied by 25 which means you need to accumulate a couples of three and a half crores to safely navigate through your retirement years or at least that's what the fire formula says now in my view there are some gaps with this four percent rule that I think we should all be aware of firstly this rule is okay for someone who has factored 25 maybe 30 years of retirement but if the retirement Horizon goes higher let's say 50 years for example then this formula starts getting a bit shaky and I've pinned a research study by Vanguard on this in the video's description secondly the four percent rule is a United States origination of the 1990s and has been tested on a historical basis when the yields on equities and Bonds were sufficiently high now we are not Americans and what works there will most likely not work for us which means there's an asset allocation and a market performance risk which needs to be accounted for and finally because each of us have our own preferences income goals saving patterns Etc I always felt it's important to have a customized fire implementation plan rather than picking something off the shelf which is why I created my own fire calculator which gives a clearer picture of how much I need to accumulate when can I idly retire how much withdrawals can I do on a monthly basis and at what point and in what circumstances my retirement money can run out so this obviously starts with the inputs and you need to type in your current age the age at which you want to retire and of course your life expectancy which I hope is strong and long then comes your current portfolio of Investments and this includes your mutual funds fds ppf EPF gold and other stuff and as a best practice kindly exclude the cost of the house where you will be staying post your retirement if you're still working then input the monthly savings and the annual increase you foresee input the expected returns from your investment the capital gain tax that can remain at 10 percent and finally have a view on how much will your expenses be in the first year of retirement and the expected household inflation rate and once we have these numbers keyed in as I have shown in this example the resulting output should clearly tell us three things one the amount of investment Corpus we need at the time of retirement which in this illustration is 2.2 crores at the age of 40.

Secondly we now have Clarity on how much can be spent on an early basis which starts from 12 lakhs so that's one lakh per month and it increases by eight percent every year and thirdly we get to know how sound or unsound this entire construct is like in this case our calculation shows that I'll run out of my money by the time I am 64 years old which is another way of saying that I need to rework my fire math which can include an increase in the monthly savings and the growth rate I can also consider extending my retirement age to a higher number let's say 45 years and finally I I can be a little careful with my expenses and instead of spending a lack of rupees maybe I can make do with 90 000.

So there are many permutations and combinations you can look at but my suggestion is try to be a little conservative in your estimates especially when it comes to return on investment the inflation rate and the post retirement monthly expenses now for your benefit I have enclosed the link of this worksheet in the video's description it's a downloadable sheet all the formulas are open so feel free to change the numbers improve the formula if required add your own customization if it helps you but have a clear idea on when and where you need to be on the path to financial Independence so when I first heard and read about fire I was not a big fan of it I mean saving 50 to 7 20 percent of one salary is almost next to Impossible and I would have shut sharp had I not realized that as a method fire is quite flexible and can be used in many different ways so the calculator is one way and you can make a customized version of it but then there are more strategies there are more variants of the fire strategy and if you are interested then do read up on lean fire fat fire Coast fire and a few more of these in related articles that I've Linked In the video's description the point is and I myself realized a very late in life that many of us don't know when to retire how much is needed to retire which is why we continue working in a role or occupation that we don't enjoy much and that's where I think fire as a strategy might be the solution and it's just three things right increase your income and savings lower your expenses and get your Investments right so read up more about this concept in the Articles and websites I've added in the description and I sincerely hope you practice some sort of fire going forward if you found this video useful then do press the like button do subscribe to my channel share this video and I'll see you three days from now until then foreign

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Kevin O’Leary: Why Early Retirement Doesn’t Work

This whole concept of economic self-reliance retire very early doesn'' t work. Let me tell you why. It took place to me.
On the sale of my first firm, I attained wonderful liquidity and I.
believed to myself, “” Hey. I'' m 36.” I can retire now.” I retired for 3 years. I was tired out of my mind. Functioning is not.
simply about cash. People don'' t comprehend this extremely.
usually up until they stop working. Job specifies who you are. It supplies a place where.
you'' re social with individuals. It offers you communication with individuals.
all day long in a fascinating way. It even assists you live much longer.
and is really, excellent for mind health. Remaining boosted is how people.
live into their 90s. I'' m not joking. So when am I retiring? Never ever. Never ever. I wear'' t know where I'' m going. after I ' m dead, yet I ' ll be working when I obtain there too.

Allow me tell you why. I retired for three years. Functioning is not.
Work specifies who you are. When am I retiring?

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Can I Retire at 55? Tips for Early Retirement

If you'' re reasoning of retiring at 55, you wish to take care regarding where you obtain your advice and assistance, which'' s due to the fact that many retirement suggestions is geared toward those that retire rather a little bit later on, in truth … The majority of people retire at 62, yet points will be various for you if you'' re mosting likely to retire at'55. To make sure that'' s what we ' ll speak about for the following pair of minutes right here, we'' ll look at where you can get the cash from, and also just how that deals with taxes in addition to healthcare, after that we'' ll appearance at some actual numbers and what it may appear like for someone who retires at age 55. We might also desire to get thoughtful simply quickly and ask the inquiry, Why age 55? Yes, it'' s a nice round number. And also there are some interesting tax obligation methods that are readily available around that age, but let'' s claim you could retire a little earlier at 54, would you desire to make that happen? Or if you worked a few more years …

I understand you'' ll believe this is insane, however if you worked a pair of even more years and you could not impact your finances, however still take some of those dream vacations and invest time with liked ones, would that be worth it to maybe work till 59? So we want to find out specifically why you are going after a specific goal and also then we can boost the opportunities of success for you, so allow'' s begin with health and wellness protection, this is a difficult one because you'' re retiring quite a little bit earlier than lots of people who could be near that Medicare age, so you have a variety of various choices to proceed being covered, and it is a great concept to have actual wellness insurance policy coverage just in situation something takes place. A couple of your selections consist of, number one, you can proceed your current advantages from a task if you have them for up to 18 months in the majority of cases, and that'' s under COBRA or your state'' s continuation program, that can get fairly pricey since you'' re going to pay the complete cost, if you weren'' t currently doing that, plus possibly a tiny little bit extra for administration, but it is a means to continue with the program that you currently have, so that can be handy if you are mid stream in certain treatments or if it'' s going to be tough to get particular advantages that you presently have on a various health and wellness care program, unfortunately, that ' s not generally a lengthy term service due to the fact that we need to get you up until age 65, which is when most individuals enlist in Medicare, and also you need to see your expenses go down quite a bit at that point, perhaps depending on what happens, so another option that a great deal of individuals look at is buying their very own coverage, and that happens usually via a medical care industry or an exchange, and also that'' s where you just by insurance coverage through an insurance policy company.So you can go directly to the insurance providers, however it'' s commonly an excellent concept to go through … Begin at healthcare.gov, and then go via the industry or the exchange, as well as that way you can shop some strategies and possibly, depending on your earnings, you can possibly get some expense reductions that make it a lot more budget friendly, I'' ll talk more about that in a second, however another option is to change to'a spouse ' s plan, if you take place to be married as well as that individual has coverage that'' s going to continue for whatever factor, that could likewise be a service for you, when you leave your job, it can be a qualifying occasion that permits you to get on that person'' s program, but allow'' s talk more concerning conserving money on wellness treatment expenditures prior to age 65, a lot of people are going to get a plan based on the aspects that are most crucial to them, so that can be the premium or the out of pocket optimum, the deductible, the carbon monoxide pays, specific locations of coverage, all that kind of thing, you can choose a strategy that fits your needs.Now, you might discover that those tend to be quite pricey, and also so if your earnings is listed below particular levels, you might be able to obtain effectively a reduction in the premium, it might be in the form of a tax credit score or a subsidy, so here ' s just a sneak peek of exactly how points can look for you, allow'' s claim your income is, let ' s state 50,000 in retired life, and also you need to look at precisely what earnings implies, yet there is no protection available from a spouse, we ' ve got one adult, as well as let ' s say you are … As our video recommend age 55 below, so you may get a benefit of about 422 a month, meaning you can invest that a lot less each month, as well as that'' s going to make it a great deal simpler to pay for insurance coverage on these plans, if we switch your revenue down to 25,000 per year, the help is also bigger, so as you can see by varying or controlling your revenue, as well as this is something you may have some control over if you retire at 55, you can likewise control your medical care prices, we'' ll talk about some conflicting objectives right here, where you may not desire to absolutely minimize your revenue throughout these years, but this is crucial for you to know if you'' re going to be paying for your very own insurance coverage, as well as if you'' re experiencing sticker label shock when you see the rates …

By the method, I'' m going to have a web link to this as well as a bunch of various other sources in the description listed below, so you can play with this exact same calculator on your own. Currently, as soon as you'' re on Medicare, the cost needs to drop a fair bit, this is a calculator from Fidelity where we can state, allow'' s state you are a woman, and we'' re going to claim you ' re eligible for Medicare at this factor, so we'' ll bring you as much as age 65. It is going to be a fair bit greater price, if you consider it before age 65, which'' s due to the fact that you are spending for those exclusive plans from insurer, let'' s say you ' re going to live until age 93, therefore you might expect to invest approximately 5800 6000 dollars per year, depending on your health and wellness and your location and various other aspects, maybe essentially, however this is a price quote of what someone might invest, a solitary woman annually in retired life, naturally, that number is going to raise every year with inflation and degrading wellness issues.But this is a

ball park estimate of what you might be spending in the future, now we reach the question of, do you have the funds to retire at 55? And also that comes down to the revenue as well as the assets that you'' re going to draw from to offer the resources you require to get things you want and also require, and also one way to consider this is to state We intend to prevent very early withdrawal charges since once again, you are retiring at an age that'' s earlier than the normal senior citizen and also most pension are made for you to take withdrawals at 59.5 or later, to prevent those fines, fortunately, you have a number of options, so with individual and also joint accounts, just taxed broker agent accounts, you can normally withdraw from those without any kind of fines, however you might have funding gains taxes when you offer something, those tax obligations may go to a lower rate than you would pay if you take big withdrawals from retired life accounts, yet you simply desire to increase as well as three-way check that, but that can be a fluid resource of funds.You.

Can additionally commonly withdraw from Roth accounts pretty easily. Those normal payments come out first, in various other words, you can pull out your routine payments at any time with no taxes and also no charges, what that implies is that'' s the annual limitation payments you could have been making her by year, so the 7000 per year. That cash would certainly be quickly accessible, yet if you have various other cash types like Roth conversions, as an example, you'' re going to be very mindful and also contact your certified public accountant as well as figure out what every one of that could appear like. There. Are various other means to obtain at funds that are within pre tax obligation pension, and it could actually make good sense to make use of those to some level, we'' ll talk extra about that soon, however these are some of the tricks you can use to avoid a very early withdrawal fine yet still draw on those properties prior to age 59.5.

The very first one is the so called regulation of 55, so this uses if you function at a task with, allow'' s state a 401K, as well as you stop working at that company at age 55 or later on, if you meet particular criteria, after that you can take out those funds from the 401k so they go straight from the 401k to you. They don'' t visit an individual retirement account, you can withdraw those funds without a very early withdrawal penalty. A complication here is that not every employer allows you to do that, so 401k strategies can establish a lot of their very own guidelines, and among them may be that they don'' t allow you simply call them up and also take cash whenever you desire, they could make you … Take out the entire quantity, so if that'' s the case, this isn ' t going to function, so be certain to three-way check with your employer and also the plan suppliers as well as figure out precisely just how this would certainly work logistically or if it will also function. Next, we have SEPP that means substantially equal routine repayments or regulation 72. This is a possibility to draw funds from, allow'' s state your IRA or a specific IRA that you select, yet prior to age 59 as well as a half without getting very early withdrawal penalties.Now, this is not

my preferred choice. I put on ' t always suggest this very usually in any way, and also the reason is due to the fact that it ' s easy to slide up and wind up paying tax charges. The factor for that is in component that it ' s truly inflexible, so when you establish this, You compute a quantity that you have to take out yearly, and it has to be the same quantity every year, and you have to make certain you do that for the longer of when you transform age 59 1/2 or for 5 years.And even that sounds sort of easy, but it ' s still

very easy to flounder, and you also have to avoid making'any sort of modifications to your accounts, so it ' s simply actually rigid and also can be tough to adhere to you, so … Not my favorite option, however maybe an alternative. Those of you that function for governmental bodies, maybe a city organization or something like that, you could have a 457b plan, as well as those plans do not have very early withdrawal penalties prior to 59 and a half, so you could take out money from that and utilize some income, pre pay some taxes, and have some cash to invest rather easily, this incidentally, is a disagreement for leaving cash in your company ' s 457 versus rolling it over to an IRA, because once it visits an IRA, you go through those 59 1/2 rules and also a prospective very early withdrawal penalty.So that can end up leaving you with 72 to collaborate with, as an example, which once more is not ideal.

You might be asking, well shouldn ' t I simply decrease taxes and hold off on paying tax obligations for as lengthy as possible? And also the solution is not always. So it can make sense to proceed and pre pay some taxes by getting strategic, the factor for that is that you will at some point need to pay tax obligations on your pre tax cash and it might take place in a huge lump, which can bump you up right into the greatest tax braces, so maybe much better to smooth out the price at which you draw from those accounts and hopefully maintain yourself in reduced tax bracket, at the very least reasonably speaking. So when your RMDs or your needed minimum circulations kick in after age 72 under current legislation, that might perhaps bump you up into the highest possible tax braces, perhaps you intend to smooth points out and take some earnings early. Allow ' s look at the concern of, Do you have sufficient with some details numbers, and also prior to we glance at those numbers, simply want to point out that I am Justin Pritchard.I aid individuals strategy for retirement and also invest for the future. I ' ve obtained some great sources, I think, in the description listed below, several of things that we ' ve been discussing below today, as well as some basic retired life planning details. If this is on your mind, I assume a whole lot of that is going to be truly handy for you. Please take'a consider that and let me know what you think about what you find. It ' s likewise a great time for a friendly pointer, This is just a brief video clip, I can ' t potentially cover whatever. Please triple and quadruple check with some experts like a CPA or an economic advisor before you make any decisions, so allow'' s obtain back right into these concerns, Do you have enough? As we constantly need to point out, it relies on where you are as well as just how much you invest and just how points help you.Are you lucky to retire right into an excellent market, or are you unfortunate as well as retiring right into a bad market? All of these different elements are mosting likely to influence your success, but allow ' s jump over to my financial preparation tool as well as have a look at an instance. This is simply a hypothetical instance, it ' s the globe ' s most over simplified instance, so please keep that in mind, with a genuine person, we ' ve obtained a great deal a lot more taking place. The globe is a complex area and also points obtain messier, but we ' re keeping it really straightforward right here, just to speak about an example of just how points might look, so'this individual has one million in pre tax assets and also 350,000 in a brokerage account, and if'we just rapidly glimpse at their control panel here, pretty high chance of success, so allow ' s make it a little a lot more fascinating and also claim … Possibly that individual retirement account has, let ' s state, 700,000 in it. What is that mosting likely to do? And also by the method, this is still a whole lot more than a great deal of individuals have, but once more, if you ' re mosting likely to be retiring at 55,

you normally have quite reduced costs and/or a great deal of assets. Allow ' s keep in mind right here that retirees wear ' t necessarily invest at a flat inflation adjusted'level, as well as I ' ll get right into the assumptions right here in a second, yet allow ' s simply look at if this person spends at rising cost of living minus 1% utilizing the retired life costs “smile,” that considerably enhances their opportunities, and also I ' ve got video clips on why you might think about that as a prospective fact, so you can look right into that later at your recreation, but as much as the assumptions, we presume “they invest about 50,000 a year, retire at age 55. The returns are 5.5 %'per year, and also inflation is 3 %each year. Wouldn ' t that be freshening if we obtained 3% … So we look at their revenue right here age 55, absolutely nothing, and after that Social Security kicks in at 70. They ' re doing a Social Security bridge method. I ' ve got videos on that particular as well, or at the very least one video clip, the complete year begins right here later, and afterwards their Social Safety and security change for inflation, looking at their tax obligations, we have zero tax obligations in these earlier years due to the fact that they are simply not'drawing from those pre tax accounts.Maybe not getting a lot, if anything, in terms of capital gains, maybe their deduction is wiping that out, so we might have a chance here to really do something and again, pre pay some tax obligations and also pull some taxed income onward.

In fact, if we eye their government income tax obligation bracket, you can see that it ' s fairly reduced from 55 on, possibly they intend to draw some of this income onward to make sure that later on in life, they are attracting every little thing out of the pre tax obligation accounts simultaneously. It simply depends on what ' s crucial to you as well as what you wish to attempt to do, which brings us to some pointers for doing calculations, whether you are doing this with somebody, a financial coordinator or on your own, you desire to look at that space between when you quit working as well as when your revenue benefits begin from, let ' s claim, Social Safety, there ' s also that space between when you quit working and when Medicare begins, and also that ' s another essential thing to check out, however what are your approaches available there? Should you take some revenue, as well as exactly just how much? That ' s mosting likely to be an area where you might have some control, so it ' s worth doing some great planning.We additionally wish to look carefully at the rising cost of living and investment returns, and what are the assumptions in any kind of software that you ' re making use of, as an example? These are truly vital inputs and also they can dramatically transform what takes place … You saw what took place when we switched over from a flat'inflation adjusted boost each year

to the retirement spending smile, simply a refined little change has a large difference on just how points unfold, and in that scenario, incidentally, we would normally have healthcare enhancing at a faster price. Like I said, we use an over simplified example and also didn ' t necessarily consist of that in this situation, however you do desire to click via or ask questions on what precisely are the presumptions and are you on board with those assumptions? You may likewise require to make some changes, and also this is just the reality of retiring at a very early age when you might have 30 plus years of retired life left, a lot can take place,'and also there actually is a great deal of benefit to making mild changes, specifically throughout market collisions, as an example, so.If things are not always going excellent, some little tweaks can possibly enhance the possibilities of success substantially, that could indicate something as straightforward as skipping an inflation change for a year or more, or maybe dialing back some getaway investing. These are points you put on ' t desire to do, that ' s without a doubt, yet with those little modifications, you can possibly maintain things on the right track, which method you put on ' t need to go back to work or make bigger sacrifices.And so I wish you discovered that practical. If you did, please leave a quick thumbs up, thank you and take care.

I don ' t necessarily suggest this really frequently at all, as well as the reason is due to the fact that it ' s easy to slide up and end up paying tax fines. It ' s likewise a good time for a friendly pointer, This is simply a short video, I can ' t potentially cover whatever. It simply depends on what ' s essential to you and what you desire to attempt to do, and also that brings us to some ideas for doing estimations, whether you are doing this with somebody, a monetary coordinator or on your own, you desire to look at that void in between when you quit functioning as well as when your earnings advantages begin from, let ' s state, Social Protection, there ' s also that void between when you quit functioning as well as when Medicare begins, and that ' s one more important thing to look at, however what are your strategies offered there? That ' s going to be a location where you might have some control, so it ' s worth doing some great planning.We likewise desire to look closely at the rising cost of living and also investment returns, as well as what are the assumptions in any kind of software that you ' re utilizing? These are points you don ' t desire to do, that ' s for certain, however with those little adjustments, you can possibly keep things on track, and also that means you wear ' t have to go back to function or make bigger sacrifices.And so I hope you found that practical.

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Millionaire Grant Sabatier Reacts: Early Retirement With $2.2 Million To Live In Portugal

Hi, I'' m Give Sabatier, the designer of
Millennial Cash and also the author of Financial Liberty. As well as today I'' m mosting likely to watch this video,
“” Exactly how we retired early with $2.2 million to travel the globe.”” I'' ve never ever seen it in the past, as well as I'' m going to offer my reaction. See to it you such as this video and sign up for enjoy even more of these reaction videos. All set to rock as well as roll? All right, let'' s do it.

Pumped for this.Since we'' ve been retired, I have actually been
able to take a great deal of time to do the points that I intended to do. Which'' s the reason we began in our reduced expense of living nation, since they provided us a great insight of where our money is going to get us. Are they in Portugal? We really felt that we could readjust effectively and be able to live, retired this way. Points just fell into area and also we'' re. able to do even more points rather than being captured up in the entire daily grind. Nice task. The way of life … Transferred to Portugal. Yeah, I was. I'' m Dianne and also I ' m Guillermo. And I was 47 when we attained FIRE And also I was 44 when I accomplished FIRE. We had actually conserved up$ 2.2 million as well as decided. to take a trip the globe trying to find our forever home.Portugal '

s like dishonesty when it comes.
to FIRE since I believe the cost of living is probably like 25% to 30% what.
If they'' ve saved$ 2.2 million, that. Dianne and also Guillermo have actually a.
lot whole lot money saved up for for their journeyTrip
established a small property group in the USA, Northern Virginia,.
D.C.Metro area

. I remained in the telecommunications industry for over.
Twenty years Did 4 years in the military in the.
It'' s one of the fastest growing genuine. I'' m thinking that in enhancement to getting.
wonderful big compensations on her sales, she additionally invested in a pair financial investment.
residential properties. I'' m excited to see if that'' s the instance. In 2018, our internet well worth was$ 2.2 million.
USD as well as presently today in 2022, our total assets is $2.6 million.
USD. There you go. That'' s a crucial factor. They retired in 2018 and also they'' ve been. able to participate in the end of what was actually among the very best.
booming market in history. As well as I started buying 2010 as well as simply.
the development of my financial investments from 2018 to 2022 has actually outmatched their own. They'' ve been able to take benefit.
of that unusual possibility. Whereas if you retire at the right time.
and afterwards your profile expands at 20% or 30% right after you retire, you have actually a.
lot much more options.My stepmother in fact was detected. with cancer cells and also my mommy finished up needing to look after. them together with myself.
And also the week that he passed away, my.
mom was detected with cancer cells. I spent greater than a year dealing with.
her. And I understood although I'' d always. wanted to retire before 50, I simply didn'' t even want to wait any longer. I started really taking an appearance at our.
numbers. I began chatting with a monetary.
expert. I discovered the FIRE neighborhood and also I showed up.
It sounds like Dianne'' s truly. And in truth, my partner could care much less.
regarding cash or FIRE or financial freedom, yet she was excited around.
the chance to have more freedom.It ' s crucial to note that it ' s a lot.
simpler to get to financial self-reliance if you have your companion on board. Our strategy was to stay two years in each.
nation to discover and also see if we can find our forever home in each nation. We did 3 years in Mexico due to the fact that of.
the pandemic. There was one added year that would.
stay. After that, we intended to explore more of.
Europe. We have our money mainly in an actual.
estate market and also in Roth IRAs. We put on'' t really have an economic.
consultant, as well as we additionally have money in brokerage firm accounts as well as in high.
investment savings accounts. I hope they enter into their specifics of.
their property financial investments. That'' s the initial thing that they provided. And afterwards the second was Roth IRAs, as well as.
after that the last was brokerage firm. My guess is that they have a number of.
rental homes and also they'' re making some cash that way.In addition to the cash that we conserved.
up for retired life, we maintained 3 rental residential or commercial properties. Yes. in Virginia as component of our.
investment profile. So we really sold a property in.
Alexandria, Virginia, that we were staying in. I transformed $120,000 on that particular.
property. We got one in Gainesville that we.
resided in for a number of years, which'' s one that we exchanged one.
Here'' s one of the errors they made. It'' s one of the fastest appreciating.
markets in the country, super close to National Flight terminal in DC, best throughout.
the Potomac River from D.C. And Alexandria property is something, at.
least in their case, I'' d recommend they hold on to as a rental for as lengthy as.
possible.It ' s a lot a lot more important dangling on. it as a rental for the next 20
, thirty years than it was offering for$ 100,000 to. $150,000 in earnings.
So our common expenditures in the US prior to. we retired had to do with $7,000 USD a month. And in Mexico our expenditures had to do with.$ 2,700 a month. We have actually just been in Portugal regarding 6.
months now. They'' re still living in a high,.
costly area for less than $100,000 a year, yet definitely cutting their.
My hunch is they could have FIRE'' d maybe. 3, 4 or 5 years earlier.
to be extra conservative. I invested a long time in Lisbon myself, and also.
it was tough to invest cash there. Especially when you can eat those fresh.
sardines for like EUR1 per bushel and obtain a bottle of wine for EUR2 or less. So I'' m really interested exactly how they'' re. investing a lot cash unless they have a really baller home, which it doesn'' t. appear like from this video they have.But who knows,

maybe they'' ve obtained some.
secret splurges as well as they'' re actually into diving or something. I'' ve been entering crypto, so I may.
be discovering that even more or going out and also taking various lessons.
whether it'' s languages or diving or yoga exercise. Oh, check out that. Scuba diving. He called it. Something that'' s going on that we function.
right into our daily regimens. Right currently, we'' re not thinking about relocating.
back to the US.But one point we'' ve learned in life is.
We'' re really looking extra at Eastern. And also we'' ll proceed our.
trips until we find our little item of heaven. Yeah, they'' re sensation really
favorable. Now since their financial investment portfolio has expanded over $400,000 given that.
they reached FIRE and also retired early in 2018. They have a YouTube channel that'' s. possibly making some cash. Therefore they'' re sharing this incredibly.
bullish response. After having that development, their.
profiles possibly went down about 20% this year, which is even more than.
would certainly have appreciated. I'' d be interested to see if they'' re. still eventually feeling this way, yet on the whole, they'' re in an actually terrific. position. The most significant thing is maintain exploring,.
maintain an open mind. You put on'' t have to choose your for life.
residence. As well as actually, possibly you need to toss that.
concept gone. They have tremendous versatility and.
liberty. They spend their time doing the important things.
that they enjoy. They like discovering brand-new things. You can truly do that anywhere in the.
world. With 1 being awful, 10 being amazing.I ' m going to clock Dianne as well as Guillermo. at a strong 8.75.
I believe they ' ve done quite'much.
Whatever. And also actually, possibly excessive right. And also I would certainly encourage them not to be too.
beholden to their spread sheets and also maybe take a little bit more dangers in their.
life. Maybe spend a bit even more cash, if.
they can, to see exactly how it makes them really feel. All right. Well, that'' s regarding it. Thanks for watching this reaction video clip. For more great video clips, make certain you.
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