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How to have a worry free retirement – Part 3
Thursday the 24th of November was Thanksgiving Day and this year we had something very special to be thankful for, as it was also settlement day for the last of our investment properties and the proceeds from the sale was enough to pay off our home mortgage. When we prepared our 10 year goals in [...]
End of Bull Market – Will the Bears finally get it right this time?
Short-term traders have been watching the triangle pattern on the daily chart of the SPX (see chart below) for the last few weeks and this has clearly been resolved to the downside, with prices not only breaking below the triangle but even breaching the 50 day moving average. This quite clearly signals the end to [...]
How to have a worry free retirement – Part 2
Kingsley and I started doing our 10 year goals in 2005. We had very ambitious financial goals which included having a stock portfolio worth $1.5 million and a property portfolio worth $2.5 million because we thought this was what we would need to be financially secure. We saved aggressively by putting $50,000 into super every [...]
How to have a worry free retirement – Part 1
I am tired of the fear mongering about not having enough super to retire on. When I was working at the bank I would cringe every time I heard my colleagues echo what they had been told by the financial planners which was “if you don’t have at least $2 million dollars, you will be [...]
Greek Endgame Drags On
I started writing this post from the Kuching airport, after a ten day visit to my parent’s house. This visit is vastly different from my last one in March this year when I first discovered the full extent of my parents’ dementia. After the initial shock, all the siblings have put our heads together to [...]
