There are two main schools of thought when it comes to retiring and drawing down the money from an investment portfolio. One common practice is called the four percent safe withdrawal rate. The other, a more conservative method, is to never touch your principal. The safe withdrawal rate (SWR) of 4% is a method used by retirees to determine how much they can withdraw from … [Read more...]
Be Smart with Your Retirement: 4 Ways to Boost Your Nest Egg
This is a post from Pauline of InvestmentZen.com Sometimes, there seems like there is not enough money to do it all. Save for the next holidays, for a new car, to buy a house, send the kids to college,… it is a lot! So what do we do? We delay or reduce our retirement contributions. That is one of the worst things you can do to your future self. Why? Because you can ride that … [Read more...]
