Today we're honored to host a guest post from the inimitable Nelson Smith from Canadian Dividend Investing on DQYDJ. Enjoy! Each week, Canada's Globe and Mail (think … [Read more...]
Why Do Americans Retire?
In our average retirement age in the United States piece we briefly discussed retiring for health reasons... then didn't dive deeper. Through the lens of 2017 Survey of … [Read more...]
Average Retirement Age in the United States
The average retirement age in the United States among currently living retirees was 59.88 years old. The median living retiree left work at 62 years old, and the most … [Read more...]
Riding the Market Weather
June 29th, 2006. It was an innocuous day as the stock market was booming in the post-9/11 recovery. The economy was torrid and the unemployment rate was 4.6% in the … [Read more...]
Selling Out (Part 2 of 4 on my move to San Francisco)
In Part One of this series, I talked about my overall transition to San Francisco. In this entry, I'll talk about some of the stresses involved in moving and cleaning … [Read more...]
Geographic Arbitrage
As I mentioned in previous articles, I have moved from Texas to California. With this move came a significant increase in both salary and cost of living. This has led to … [Read more...]
Taming Your Spending Per Decade
My cowriter and I briefly discussed (verbally, not through some sort of electronic medium) how spending can be roughly modeled by looking at it from different … [Read more...]
My Retirement Asset Allocation
Over the Thanksgiving weekend, I decided to play around with Morning Star's X-Ray tool. The tool takes your entire portfolio and analyzes the asset allocation by … [Read more...]
September 2014 Goal Assessment
At the end of last year, I stated that I wanted to pay down ~$34,000 in consumer debt (outside of my mortgage). I am writing today to report on both a level of success … [Read more...]
FICO is a Corporation
Much has been written about the recent change in the FICO scoring system from both mainstream media and personal finance blogosphere. Using my compelling inside … [Read more...]
No, You’re Not Saving Too Much for Retirement
Saving too much... really, is that a possibility that people are even remotely concerned about? Or is it just a meme used to justify an expensive third decade? I love … [Read more...]
How Much Do People Save, by Income?
A few weeks back we presented one of our signature pieces of original research on what Americans saved based upon their ages. That data used fresh data from the Consumer … [Read more...]