HOW TO DOUBLE YOUR RETIREMENT INCOME OVERNIGHT!

When will I be debt free? While those three steps are enough on their own to potentially enable you to double your money, making an initial investment in the plan is just the first stage of building your wealth. Once it's socked away, it needs to be put to use in a way that it can potentially increase in value for you. Typical k plans only allow you to invest in mutual funds or exchange-traded funds. Even with those restrictions, you may very well have some great options to choose from. How fast will my savings grow?

As you get closer to retirement, it becomes important to shift the money you'll need to spend in the next few years into shorter term assets with higher certainty than stocks. You'll be giving up the higher potential returns that stocks offer, but you'll have a greater chance of that money actually being there when you need it. BSV invests in U. Government bonds with one- to five-year maturities and also carries a minuscule 0. Very few investments in life offer you the potential to double your money as easily as you can by investing in your Traditional k , accepting your employer's match, and watching your contribution reduce your taxable income.

If that opportunity is available to you, the sooner you start taking advantage of it, the more quickly it can help you build your nest egg. Muni bonds worked out very well for my in laws. Could they have risked their tails some more? Yes I suppose missing a few hours of sleep each night they could be richer. Thanks Sam, some good reminders there about risk, and making sure you understand and are comfortable with your choices.

I could move up to intermediate FI with a riskier investment portfolio but I prefer to stay around 60k income. That is actually my sweet spot. Then I am relaxed enough in my safe low yield investments to enjoy non pecuniary things in life. By raising my income not only would I experience the more sleepless stressful nights of a riskier portfolio but I would also lose my Obamacare subsidies. That is on top of my federal tax rate and state tax rate!

So thanks, but no thanks. So, you will say, you are sitting idle, not even giving your money to companies and entrepreneurs to improve the economy i. Well folks, that is what you voted for. Diversification to me is about reducing. If I really want to beat or equal the market I would just invest in Total Market fund. I am probably screwed if their is a down turn.

My current asset allocation provides me the best ROI for my risk profile. We plan to increase our equity exposure 2. Am I leaving money on the table? Thanks for showing a little love to the boring and risk-adverse, my friend. I wish I started investing earlier. So, retirement is not in the immediate future.

But I “Missed Out BIG TIME”

I like to learn from the people already FIREd. Freedom is the ultimate goal of most people in the FIRE community. You are free to continue working on your own schedule or stop entirely. You can pursue a passion or contribute by volunteering. The choice is all yours andit must be a great feeling! Have you done this and care to share an evaluation process where the market is to find businesses for sale? I helps to have some industry specific skills but lots of businesses will cycle through.

I do this mostly with industrial products but am watching for an accounting firm as that would be fun. If you are young with a long time horizon you should be taking risk in my opinion. If you are older and have a fat stack no need to take the extra risk. Financial independence has to be more enjoyable when you have something coming in. I would struggle to just draw from investments. For me earning some money would help me stick to a plan and be confident. I hope to have some sort of active income alongside other streams I am building.

Suddenly, I feel over exposed to stocks with this big run up the past few years. Started investing back in late I know these are amazing problems to have and I appreciate my situation. Sam I love these quotes: I type this after a 30 minute commute. So what if I missed out big time? This is an excellent post, Sam. The scenario analysis you cited in the para below is exactly what I mentioned in my comment to your previous article: There is no smarts, purely luck because I assessed my employment situation back then and told myself, I will be secure for next 5 years, so I can afford to heavily invest in the stock market.

I can deal with that. Historically this time frame has been sufficient. Assuming you can sleep well at night why is this not a sound strategy? It seems to me that a total return approach is the safest. In this rate environment bonds certainly have their risks. Wonderful advice as normal.

Saving for a house deposit, and this has been a great bull run so far.

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What I think is challenging for people in the accumulation phase to wrap their heads around is the marginal utility of money. It is nice not to have a care in the world about how the markets perform. So why not let your money work harder in the higher risk stock allocations which benefits more the rest of the world BTW and go for a great intergenerational transfer, especially now that the threat of inheritance taxes has retreated further into the background?

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They are a good option as well for super conservative investors. I have one remaining CD myself. The problem is finding a CD with a high enough interest rate to cover inflation and they have early withdrawal penalties. The assumption with the CD is that you hold until expiration, whereas with the bond, you have the option to sell earlier than the duration without penalty if there is attractive principal appreciation.

I believe it is offered to any zip code that they serve or employees of course. If you buy the 10y TBill at 2. The young folk can toss in 10k a year. If you cash out early, much smaller return but no principal risk, well, inflation.

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The return on the higher risk portion of the curve they have not been able to suppress yet? There is plenty of time to recover if there is a big crash. As Sam said I won! Reading this great article you created Sam made me realize that I should be better off just by investing in some bonds to diversify risk and to be less exposed than I am in the stocks. Another victim of the FOMO bug. Most of it is invested in shares at the moment and the main income are dividends.

Mutual fund:When will my mutual fund investments double?

I know, a dividend is not that secure in the height of paying like I have a coupon which generates me a fixed income of say 3. Even in I had a growth, but due to some decreases this was not that high as in normal years. I do not care a lot about the course of the shares.

So I could decide, I change most of my shares to bonds and do not care a lot in the future. The interest rates are very low, the policy for the money is not strict and we have a very low inflation. This is the same in Germany like in the US.

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This can change in the future. Lets say, I will buy bonds with 10 or 15 years transit time. I do not know if this will happen, but there is a chance. With this I will have a big problem when I have invested the majority in bonds. When we have higher interest rates, the next problem is, that the share market do not perform a lot as well, because many people are investing in high yielding bonds. What do you think about this situation? At the moment I do not have a must to decide which will be the way to invest immediatly or to change everything now.

But this is a long term question. If we have a situation with high interest rates I probably would buy a lot in bonds. But if this works for you, everything is OK. A caution though on bonds. We have begun to see a normalization of rates but we are probably far from done. However, treasuries are NOT a safe spot for those contemplating retirement today. The old argument always was that the coupons will be reinvested at higher rates so you will be OK. That was true when rates were at a higher starting point. It also appears that rates will be trending up for some time. I would rather be in cash for non equity, non real estate money at 1.

I have no issue with that whatsoever.

I believe it is too risky for new retirees to be in that high of a bond portfolio right now. I would wait for 3 or 4 more rate increases and for the 10 year to be at least 3. One can simply use covered calls on stocks they own and could double triple their dividend yields annually. But I believe that is not what we are talking about here. It is no more risky than owning stocks if you know what you are doing. If you are selling covered calls against the stocks you own, it could even carry less risks than if you just own the stocks outright without options.

In fact there is a blogger who owns Early Retirement Now web site and who does a different version of covered calls. He sells weekly SPX puts to get additional income. Definitely it is very achievable for an average Joe like myself. I plan writing a book about my journey to get there. Nobody can become a multimillionaire or in the top one percent category overnight without an inheritance or winning a lottery. But with the right tools and the diligence, anybody can. Yours truly is a one good example. When a sold put goes against ya you can get the shares, then sell calls on them until the sold calls go against and then back to puts.

SPX is cash settled. How far out do you go in time and price? It can be fairly involved in terms of strike and expiry selection. Long story short, the optimum choice is perhaps use OTM strikes with 30 delta and about 45 days to expiration. Multi — I have written covered calls, puts and spreads as well. Yes, a nice source of income.

I have looked into more complicated strategies but they all seem to be very high risk with a low chance of getting a high reward. Any links you could send me to that would help me understand those strategies in greater detail? I will say that options are only for those who wish to be very involved in their portfolios.

Even call and put writing. I closed out and made great money for such a short time frame. Again, only use options if you are willing to monitor the portfolio. At least for the majority of trades. We usually seldom buy options unless a trade goes against me and I have to adjust the delta to the long and short side.

The other advantage of options is the flexibility of mitigating the risks for a trade that goes wrong to turn it back to profitability over time. I plan on by the time I retire, I will craft out a strategy with some of my funds engaged in relatively straightforward covered calls arrangements for stocks I want to own. I believe it should produce enough to cover all of my expenses and then some without ever touching the principals.

The downside is I will have to pay income taxes on the capital gains. I really think this is an area where active management can work. Well, you know that it is a bogus claim as mutual funds do not guarantee returns. The performance of a scheme depends on the performance of its investments. So, there is no way to find out when your money would double. However, if you are curious how you can quickly crosscheck the claim, here is some help.

One, the claim is mostly based on historical returns. As you would have heard repeatedly on mutual fund advertisements, past performance does not guarantee future returns; the schemes may or may not repeat the performance. Now, how would you verify whether the scheme would help you double the money in five years?

Or in whatever time? Rule of 72 This rule estimates the number of years in which your investments would double. For example, anyone who has invested a lumpsum in a largecap mutual fund scheme can expect his investment to double in 3. Largecap mutual funds have returned Some experts argue that Rule of 69 gives more accurate result, especially when the returns of the investment are compounded continuously. Rule of Similar to the rule of 72, this rule estimates the number of years in which your investments would triple.