The Poor Swiss has updated the Trinity Study and adapted it to his particular situation. In this podcast he explains it all in more detail.
Ermine talks about the realities of living off his investments between quitting his job and drawing his first pension packet.
If your plan is to retire early with the 4% SWR you must know about the sequence of returns risk. The Poor Swiss wrote a good article about it.
Save a lot, invest wisely and in a couple of years you can say goodbye to the job you hate: no more commuting to work, no more boring meetings, annoying bosses or co-workers! You have done the math, you will use the 4% safe withdrawal rate and all will work out perfectly. There are already bloggers who retired early, this proves that it’s possible. You just need to be 100% focused on your goal and your growing net worth. Most…
The Poor Swiss tries to reproduce the results of the Trinity Study (on safe withdrawal rates) but uses more recent data and considers longer periods (up to 50 years). I think this is very useful stuff! Read on…
Should we trust the well-known 4% Safe Withdrawal Rate? Monevator analyses it looking at research on market fluctuation, and reaches some interesting conclusions.
Route2FI wants to speed up his journey to FIRE.
The CashflowCop has listed over 40 FIRE calculators and other useful tools, from simple to sophisticated.
The Accumulator at team Monevator details the warnings associated with the 4% rule
+100 bars and a supermodel in our Blog Post of the Month: candy for your eyes if you’re into charts and numbers! Marc aka Earlyretireman documents his journey to early retirement on Finance Your FIRE, where he shares his networth, goals and portfolio (more bars, and also pie charts). For the article “FIRE! The ultimate charts“, Marc went over his FIRE numbers (once again): accumulation and withdrawal phase, the value of his stocks, you name it. He thoroughly goes through the…
