Life After Full-time Work Blog
Learn about preparing for life after full-time work through posts from Don's upcoming book.
#46 Your Personal Funded Ratio
There’s a simple concept that is extremely useful. Just compare how much you’ve got with how much you need! Here’s how to apply that concept to see how far you’ve come.
#45 Can Partners Reconcile Different Attitudes Towards Risk?
When partners find that they have different attitudes to risk, there are many sensible ways to proceed.
#44 Sometimes Partners Have Different Attitudes Towards Risk
Sometimes partners find that they have different attitudes to risk. This post shows several examples.
#43 Your Risk Tolerance Depends On Psychological And Financial Factors
Once we have made a calculation of the effect of good and bad outcomes, we need to think about how we’d react to these outcomes. That enables us to make a decision on our attitude to risk.
#42 Your Fundamental Investment Choices: Eat Well Or Sleep Well
We know that investments can be focused on safety or on growth. That doesn’t help us to decide where in the safety-growth spectrum to place ourselves. Another complication, right? Actually, as this post shows, the key is to consider the extent to which good and bad outcomes affect our lifestyle.
#41 A Summary Of 1Q2018 Posts
As I did at the end of 2017, I’ve summarized one quarter’s posts, so that you can find a particular post conveniently identified by topic.
#40 Broaden The Discussion Framework
After all the analysis, you still have to decide: active or passive. This post lays out precise reasons that tilt you in one direction or the other — or both.
#39 Is There Investment Skill? If So, What Is It Worth?
If we make enough choices, some will work out and some won’t. How do we distinguish luck from skill? Is there skill? What is it worth? This post looks at those questions.
#38 Unbundle The Fees
What do we pay for the privilege of asking someone else to manage our investments? This post lists many forms of payment.
#37 Active Or Passive: Three Separate Issues
One of the most heated (and therefore potentially confusing) topics in investing is whether to be active (try to choose winners) or passive (just “go with the flow”). In this post we’ll see that one reason for the confusion is that “active versus passive” really encompasses many different questions.
About me
Don has an extensive background in investing and consulting, and is also an accomplished author. His current writing project is focused on helping people prepare for a happy, financially secure life after they finish full-time work. Learn More...