Worried that you will never be able to invest enough for retirement? Do the results of a retirement calculator scare you? Learning about the ‘bucket strategy’ might help cope with these issues. How much do I need to retire? Most people (among those who bother to ask!) are troubled by the answer to this question….

Manish Chauhan’s second book, “How to be your own financial planner in 10 steps” is a great ‘action’ book guiding people through the basic steps of financial planning. This post describes a retirement calculator inspired by the book and is based on ‘corpus withdrawal rate’ Step no. 6 is “Start your retirement planning”. In this…

Ever Since I started this I have benefited immensely from a few users who have evaluated the calculators thoroughly. Many errors were corrected and I have come to realize how complex each person’s financial situation is. Yesterday I was contacted by someone who was going to retire next year and had trouble using my online…

Can you become financial independent and retire in 5 years? I came across the Early Retirement Extreme blog sometime back. Dr. Jacob Lund Fisker is a theoretical physicist who became financially independent in 5 years by saving upwards of 75% of his take-home pay. He has also written a book about how he did it….

Unfortunately there is, or at least can be, a big difference between: “When I WANT to retire” and “When I CAN retire” WANT is governed by job pressure, stress, burnout etc. CAN is unfortunately governed by how one can save, inflation, interest rates, life expectancy Find out when you CAN retire using the excel based…