Month: March 2023
Financial Planning – Watch This Before You Start Financial Planning!
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Have you ever think of this question what would happen if you are hospitalized unexpectedly due to an accident or a sickness and You lose the ability to make money. Could you continue to pay your bills? If you couldn't then I know exactly how you feel There's nothing more frustrating than your hard-earned retirement saving has to depleted and to make matters even worse you increase your debt load Frustrated and embarrassed you end up feeling like a failure because all your plan that your so-called financial Adviser helps you set up the plans all are ruins Unfortunately, there just hasn't been a quick and easy alternative to just put aside more emergency funds at least three to six months where everyone seems living paycheck by paycheck however, the problem with these options is that you either have to put in more time to learn more extra income by doing more than A job or reduce your spending habits to scarify your lifestyle expenses That's why today I'm delighted to share with you the program that I just found out have the solution to help you pays your bills When you cannot work due to accident and sickness, hi, my name is Moses tan and over the last five years I've personally helped people to protect their ability to make pays their bills in their retirement plan And with this new program you are getting cash benefits paid directly to you as you wish to help pay unexpected expenses or everyday bills What makes this new program so different to all the other out there is there are no companies are offering this service in the market Let me show you a sneak peak how this program works When you have an accident or suffer sickness You shouldn't have to worry about how you'll pay for added expenses or everyday bill this program pays you $3,300 direct to you if you stay in the hospital a day up to $6,000 if you stay in the hospital for five days up to $12,000 if you stay in the hospital for 10 days up to $36,000 if you stay in the hospital for 30 days This program also covers you if you have outpatient surgery or fracture each outpatient surgery or fracture incident you get pays up to $5,200 even if you have a root canal or a stitch you get pays for $1,300 it pays cash directly to you in addition to benefits provided by any other insurance policy group planned workers Compensation or any government employment insurance program Jamie a married mother of two said earlier this year I became extremely sick and missed work.
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Read MorePlan For Retirement The Right Way with These Tips
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well planning for your life is always personal and a lot of times you want to be in full control but could you benefit getting out of your own way when it comes to financial retirement plan well Adam wolf Jacksonville's retirement coach is here to explain how that works and Adam is one of the area's leading certified financial planners his firm Wolf's retirement navigation helps people plan for a successful retirement good to see you again brother great see Curtis all right how often do you do you run into a client who comes in and tries to tell you how to do your job yeah it's about it's about 50/50 and it's it's amazing because if we look at it and I try to do what you do it's it's almost next to impossible I mean my mother was a middle school teacher she also ran daycare centers I could never do that you know being around mourning and my daughter is too many kids so everybody has their idea of what they want retirement to look like they just need somebody to help them along the way and design that perfect retirement for them and that's that's what you do and I'm sure you get a lot of people saying they heard something on this TV show in this TV show and I think this is but it takes somebody like you who studies the entire thing to give them the best advice but what would you have an example of somebody who finally after you talked to him they saw the light and they were like here's the keys to my portfolio go ahead yeah the best the best ones are there's a perfect example one where the couple came in and they thought they both had to work another two years and so we took a look at what they had saved in their IRAs in their 401ks the gentleman had a pension and they both had Social Security we were able to design that plan to get her retired like within a month with him within a year and so let me tell you they'd like naming their pets after me now cuz they love you so much but it's it gets to that point where that's that's why I do what I do because I do it every day and I'm there to help people meet their needs and get to that retirement that they truly dreamed of and I think that's what the important part there is knowledge knowledge is power as they say we all learned that from school school of schools School House Rock but what what why is it so important for people to be not eligible about their retirement yeah so a lot of times you know they design it themselves or they're working with somebody else who's just may be focused on investments during their working years and as we get closer to retirement we have to take into account the investments the risk that goes into the taxes they the you know do we do we want to have enough that we're gonna live and leave to our next generation and we want to take care of the spouses there's so many nuances to retirement planning and that's why we we focus on retirement planning and so doing that every day day in and day out is going to help our clients going forward and we hold education seminars we have workshops as well it's all about the latest and greatest strategies new information new tax laws to better your overall life and retirement well for those people out there who are gonna come and see you obviously after seeing this so that they don't come again let him do his job but so that so that they come fully prepared what are the type of things they should they should gather before coming to see you yeah we take we make the process very relaxing unlike a lot of financial services shops we have a great you know introductory meeting you bring what you're comfortable with we have a list of items to gather as well to have an inventory of what you have but that really that first meeting is just you know what are your goals what are you trying to accomplish you know what have you you know you saved over the course of your retire of your working years to get you to in through retirement and because we only focus on retirement it allows us to key in on those issues that they really need to focus on to get them the best retirement possible good stuff all right man is good to see you again good see you if you'd like to learn more Adam has a great offer folks listen up for the first five callers with a portfolio of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars or greater he's offering a complimentary full blown retirement plan just for you all you gotta do is call right now and that number is on your screen nine zero four two three two eight seven six zero again nine zero four two three – eight seven six zero that's an incredible offer and you can
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Read MoreRich Thinking vs Poor Thinking: Embracing an Abundance Mindset
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In this video I’m going to reveal the key differences between rich thinking and poor thinking to help you crush your goals. Coming up! Hey, I’m Dr. Brad Klontz, your financial psychologist! On this channel, we help you transform your relationship with money, master the psychology of wealth, and live a life of abundance! So, if you’re new here, please subscribe and click the bell so you don’t miss anything! Studies have shown big differences between how rich people think compared to poorer people.
The secret is this: your beliefs about yourself, the world, and what’s possible are entirely created by you, in this moment, and they determine your results. Now that’s heavy. One of the biggest differences is that poor thinking is all about a scarcity mindset. If you want to enjoy wealth and success, you need to abandon your scarcity mindset. Scarcity is defined as the state of being scarce or in short supply. It means deficiency, deficit, inadequacy, or undersupply.
Yuck. Now look, I know that for many of you money IS in short supply, at least right now anyway, so it makes sense that you’re experiencing some scarcity. But the problem with scarcity thinking is that if you aren’t careful it consumes you – like a dark, stinky cloud that covers you. You see scarcity all around you – not just not enough money, but not enough love, not enough opportunity to go around, a lack of trust – when you are looking for it, you can see scarcity everywhere. See if any of this fits for you: When someone is nice, do you assume that they have a hidden agenda? When something good is happening, do you hold back your joy because you’re waiting for the other shoe to drop? If you fall in love, do you become paranoid and worried that you’re going to get hurt. Do you not trust your business partner? Are you so afraid someone will steal your business ideas that you don’t share them with anyone else? Do you doubt that opportunities exist for you, so you don’t bother looking for them? Do you think you aren’t smart enough or worthy enough to be successful? If you said yes to any of these questions, please know that I get it! I understand.
Of course you believe these things. You’ve been hurt by others – perhaps even by the people you should have been able to trust the most. You grew-up poor. People have taken advantage of you. You’ve been let down. You’ve been disappointed. You’ve tried, and tried, and tried but have failed. You’ve arrived at a scarcity mindset honestly. In fact, you’ve probably inherited this scarcity mindset from the people who have let you down. In many ways they’ve disappointed you because they had a scarcity mindset themselves – believing that they need to take from you because there isn’t enough to go around. The real problem with scarcity thinking is that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. When you don’t trust someone else, they will start to become untrustworthy. As your paranoia grows, they’ll start to get anxious and worried about upsetting you, so they’ll start hiding things from you and sure enough, when you catch them, you think ha, I knew it, I can’t trust anyone! But did your scarcity mindset help create this situation? When you’re anxious and you hold back the depth of your love because you don’t want to get hurt, before long your lover will leave you.
He or she will prove your scarcity thinking right, because you helped create it. If you’re desperate for money, people will sense you’re only out for yourself and they’ll avoid you, like the plague. They’ll end up despising you. If you’re only out for yourself, rich people will avoid you, and so will wealth. A scarcity mindset stinks and it can be so contagious, so people who are truly rich, people who live in abundance will avoid you.
If you want to think like the rich, if you want to get rich. you need to embrace an abundance mindset. Abundance thinking is the total opposite of scarcity thinking. Abundance is defined as a large quantity of something. Synonyms for abundance include boatloads, globs, oodles, plenty and heaps. Abundance assumes that there is plenty to go around – plenty of love, globs of money, and boatloads of opportunities. When you embrace an abundance mindset, you start seeing opportunities all around you. Doors begin opening for you.
Doors that have always been there but you hadn’t noticed before. When you’re living a life of abundance, you give love fully, deeply, and fearlessly, without regret. And of course, your lover loves it! In fact, everyone loves it! They want to be around you. They want to share your passion. They want to do business with you. They want to buy your products. They want to spend time with you. They want to help you, because your abundance mindset is contagious, and it feels so good to be around you. When you have an abundance mindset, instead of fearing sharing your ideas with your “competition,” you look for opportunities to share with them – to collaborate with them.
To work together. You help them grow, and guess what happens? They help you grow! You’re totally committed to your business partner’s success so committed that he or she would never think of betraying your trust – they would be a fool to do so, because you keep bringing so much to the table. So how do you abandon your poor thinking for rich thinking? Let’s do it right now. In this moment. Let”s do an experiment. Right now – You have a choice: You can spend the next 10 minutes focusing all your attention on your problems, on your failures, on your betrayals, on all the barriers to your success. Or, you can spend the next 10 minutes getting excited about searching for and noticing the opportunities around you – the beauty, the love, your strengths, your passions, your goals, your gift to the world – a gift you must give to the world – and you definitely have one, I promise! Embracing an abundance mindset IS the pathway to success and it feels great, and don’t you want to feel great? Special thanks to Your Mental Wealth Advisors and the Heider College of Business at Creighton University for helping sponsor this channel.
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Read MoreAcute Wealth Advisors has tips on spending in retirement
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So you've save save save your whole life and then it comes time to retire and you've got to start spending that money down well for many baby boomers spending that cash isn't as fun as they thought it would be Matt Deaton of acute Wealth Advisors he is here this morning to explain and Matt is one of the valleys leading financial advisors he and his partner Damon they have a weekly retirement radio show and they help folks prepare for retirement and Matt it's it's mind boggling really when it comes time to actually go out and spend the hard-earned money that you've worked hard for you said that some people can't do it they're they're fearful why well part of its they've they've developed habits of saving their whole life and now it's time to start spending I've got this client that I'm working with right now she had hurt us at one of our workshops and she came in and she was currently being with her advisor once a month because she was so worried about her money she had just retired she didn't know what to do and as she talked and she talked through these things I found that she was basically paralyzing or spending she just really didn't know what to do she I told her I said you have some investments but you don't have a financial plan you don't have a plan for how you're gonna spend this money and so you're really really scared about it oh yeah and so so we're working with her to kind of put that plan in place so that she can you know and she doesn't have to meet with her advisor every month right and be worried about this that she can go out and enjoy retirement all right so how do you suggest that those folks out there who might be like her how do they overcome their fear well I think there's a couple things number one I think knowledge is power the more you can understand about a subject the better and so we believe when we sit down with someone to educate them and teach them and so we spend the first few appointments just talking and educating about those the other thing that we have started to do is we've started to do these college courses okay so we hold these courses that's a community college close it's two nights it's for two hours each night so it's not long it's not extended but it's enough time to go into depth on these classes in this subject so that people can now own their finances because now they can learn about fees they can understand how to analyze their statements all these things that people get petrified and worried about that cause the issues when they were and so this to our class it's two nights for two hours it's a I mean are we you're teaching us basically how to spend so we're taking notes oh there's a workbook we're gonna teach people how to maximize their social security so the first thing we're trying to teach people is how to get the most out of their money okay but then once you understand that you're gonna know okay this is the money I need to set aside for the income I'm going to need ten years down the road but this is the money money I can spend now so I can have some fun while I'm young and I'm healthy and I can move and I can go on the cruise and all the things you've been doing so it's it's a it's a course that just starts from the basics and builds on them alright so after we finished this two-day course you've given us a plan of action our distribution plan do you suggest that we update that oh absolutely so just because you go to the one class or just because you've sat down with a financial advisor at one time you cannot just stop there you need to continue to develop and make changes to that because things are gonna change your health is going to change your spending is going to change and so you need to make adjustments to your financial plan and I would have to imagine that after they have this plan that they the fear is lifted a little bit absolutely because again instead of just having investments you have a plan and so if you're an emergency and you have a plan a lot of the fear goes away you know what you're supposed to do that class and go gosh darn it I gotta get out there and enjoy my retirement well that's all probably overwhelmed and and excited well she's turning to become more excited you know she's been overwhelmed she's been fearful now she's starting to get where she's like okay I can really enjoy the travel I don't do it I can do it and I think that you know that fear is normal because we're not getting the income anymore so we don't want to stop our current lifestyle right great information well let's give you some information let's to give you the tools that you need to enjoy retirement if you want to learn more you can attend that upcoming two-day educational course that we were just talking about hosted by acute wealth advisors there are two courses that you can choose from in October now one is going to be held at Mesa Community College the other at Glendale Community College and if you call in the next thirty minutes you're going to receive 50% off the tuition for that course so it's half off four eight zero six two zero six nine zero seven is the number to call spaces filling up so be sure to reserve your seat today acute wealth advisors they have offices across the valley for your convenience learn more by visiting acute wealth advisors dot-com
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Read MoreHow to Become Rich | Retire on $10 a day
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Is it possible in this day and age to become a millionaire? Or perhaps the better question is why would you want to become a millionaire? I mean in media today Millionaires and billionaires for that matter are often not depicted in the best light. Characters like Scrooge McDuck or the always supremely evil C. Montgomery Burns come to mind here. And of course right now in real life we have the ever-present Donald Trump as one of the main poster boys of the super wealthy. So I suppose with that kind of media influence hovering over us our entire lives it's not surprising that most of us have a fairly negative view of the super wealthy and many really do not want to become a part of it. Especially since the majority of us don't personally know anyone who's Super Rich so we don't have anything to really balance the scales, and that's all we can really draw upon is what we see in the media.
And that's really unfortunate because there's a lot of really great wealthy people out there. But most of them are not in the public eye and even the ones that are in the public eye like Bill Gates don't get as much media attention as someone like donald Trump does. And as a result there are a lot of misconceptions about millionaires and the wealthy in general. Hey guys, Daniel here from Next Level Life and it recently occurred to me that I’ve been neglecting a huge part of what it takes to have that next level life that we all dream of… because whatever your dream life is, you need to have the finance resources in place first to be able to live it.
So with that in mind I’m going to be starting this new series on my channel covering various topics in the field of personal finance. And as you can see by the title for my first video of the series I wanted to talk about a simple plan that, if stuck to, will practically guarantee your future millionaire status as well as take a moment and really define what a millionaire is and is not. Because believe it or not even for the average American it is possible. No you know what possible is too soft of a claim because it's more than possible. In fact if you follow a few simple steps it's almost guaranteed. Don't believe me? Well hopefully over the course of this video as well as the rest of my personal finance videos that will be coming out soon I'll be able to convince you. So without further ado, let's get started. What is a millionaire? A millionaire is simply someone who has a million-dollar positive net worth. Meaning after subtracting debts and other liabilities and expenses they have a million dollars worth of stuff leftover between their cash their house and all their other assets.
That's really all there is to it. It has nothing to do with how much money you make. It has nothing to do with what type of person you are or how well-known you maybe, it simply means that your assets are valued at least 1 million dollars greater than your liabilities. But how can the average American get to that $1000000 positive net worth in their lifetime? I mean $1000000 that's 6 zeros, i'd imagine that most of us have never written a check with more than three zeros. Unless of course you bought a new car or house with cash and if that's the case kudos to you, you may not even need this video because you're already probably well on your way to that million-dollar net worth. Now I said that if you follow a few simple steps it's not only possible to reach that million-dollar marker, it's almost guaranteed.
Let's find out how. Well I did a few calculations and found out that over the course of the last 40 years the S&P 500 has returned an average of percent per year not including dividends. Now technically speaking past results are no indicator of future returns, but until we see the future returns this is the best we've got to go off of. So assuming that over the next 40 years the market does roughly the same as it did since 1978 you could invest $2per month over the next 40 years and become a millionaire. Again assuming no dividends. Now 261 dollars may seem like a lot but when you break it down it's not even $10 a day, and there are lots of ways to save money. You can cut cable, or go down to a lower internet speed, or not eat out quite as often, or use coupons when you're shopping for groceries, or you can do none of those things and instead find a way to make a little bit of extra income.
Maybe you start mowing lawns or shovel and driveways on the side, maybe you start selling old clothes that you don't need anymore online, or if you're young you might be able to start teaching people how to use social media better. You'd honestly be amazed at how many people would pay you to do that. There's a ton of options out there, all you have to do is pick the one or maybe few that work out the best for you and start your own Journey on the path to becoming financially independent. Now there's a couple of things that I want to clear up before ending the video for those of you who are a little bit more Analytical in nature. That percent is the geometric mean rate of return that the S&P 500 has had since 1978 according to Yahoo finance. All I did to get it was go through each year and look at where the market was in September because as of the recording of this video September just ended.
Then I put them all into the Excel spreadsheet and calculated the return. And I think the reason why we hear so many different rate of returns thrown around by Financial gurus is because of the inflation effect. I've heard gurus say that you can expect to earn anywhere from 6 to 10% per year in the market. And depending on what time frame and type of average you use any of those numbers could be true. For example if you go from 1978 and use an arithmetic average the average return on the market would be about percent per year. Inflation is generally assumed to be about three to four percent so if you adjust for inflation your realized return would be somewhere in that 6 – 7% range. If you don't adjust for inflation of course you're at nearly a 10 percent return. So there you go there's a simple formula to retiring with the amount of wealth that most of us would consider to be rich.
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Read MoreThe 4% Rule for Retirement (FIRE)
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If you have spent any time researching retirement planning online, you have heard of the 4% rule. If you haven’t heard of it, the 4% rule suggests that if you spend 4% of your assets in your initial year of retirement, and then adjust for inflation each year going forward, you will be unlikely to run out of money. To put some numbers to it, if you wanted to retire and spend $40,000 per year, adjusted for inflation, from your portfolio, you would need to retire with one million dollars to adhere to the four percent rule. This rule is alternatively described as the requirement to have 25 years worth of spending in your portfolio to afford retirement. 1/25 equals 4% – it’s the same rule. While it is simple and elegant, the 4% rule is probably not the best way to plan for retirement, especially if you plan on retiring early. I’m Ben Felix, Associate Portfolio Manager at PWL Capital. In this episode of Common Sense Investing, I’m going to tell you why the 4% rule is not a rule to live by.
The 4% rule originated in William Bengen’s October 1994 study, published in the Journal of Financial Planning. Bengen was a financial planner. He wanted to find a realistic safe withdrawal rate to recommend to his retired clients. Bengan’s breakthrough in determining a safe withdrawal rate came from modelling spending over 30-year periods in US market history rather than the common practice of simply using average historical returns. Using data for a hypothetical portfolio consisting of 50% S&P 500 index and 50% intermediate-term US government bonds he looked at rolling 30-year periods starting in 1926, ending with 1992. So, 1926 – 1955, followed by 1927 – 1956 etc., ending with 1963 – 1992. The maximum safe withdrawal rate in the worst 30-year period ended up being just over 4%. From this simple but innovative analysis, the 4% rule was born. More recently Bengen has adjusted his spending rule to 4.5% based on the inclusion of small cap stocks in the hypothetical historical portfolio.
While the 4% (and the 4.5% rule) may have basis in historical US data, there are substantial problems with these rules in general, and specifically in the case of a retirement period longer than 30 years. In his 2017 book How Much Can I Spend in Retirement, Wade Pfau, Ph.D, CFA, looked at 30-year safe withdrawal rates in both US and non-US markets using the Dimson-Marsh-Staunton Global Returns Dataset, and assuming a portfolio of 50% stocks and 50% bills. He found that the US at 3.9%, Canada at 4.0%, New Zealand at 3.8%, and Denmark at 3.7% were the only countries in the dataset that would have historically supported something close to the 4% rule. The aggregate global portfolio of stocks and bills had a much lower 30-year safe withdrawal rate of 3.5%. Considering returns other that US historical returns is important, but, in my opinion, one of the most important assumptions to be aware of in the 4% rule is the 30-year retirement period used by Bengen. People are living longer, and many of the bloggers citing the 4% rule are focused on FIRE, financial independence retire early.
In Bengen’s study the 4% rule with a 50% stock 50% bond portfolio was shown to have a 0% chance of failure over 30-year historical periods in the US. That chance of failure increases to around 15% over 40-year periods, and closer to 30% over 50-year periods. FIRE likely means a retirement period longer than 30 years. Modelling longer time periods using historical sampling becomes problematic because we have data for a limited number of historical 50-year periods.
One way to address this issue is with Monte Carlo simulation. Monte Carlo is a technique where an unlimited number of sample data sets can be simulated to model uncertainty without relying on historical periods. Even with Monte Carlo simulation, there is an obvious risk to using historical data to build expectations about the future. The world today is different than it was in the past. Interest rates are low, and stock prices are high. While it may be reasonable to expect relative outcomes to persist, such as stocks outperforming bonds, small stocks outperforming large stocks, and value stocks outperforming growth stocks, the magnitude of future returns are unknown and unknowable. To address this for financial planning, PWL Capital uses a combination of equilibrium cost of capital and current market conditions to build an estimate for expected future returns for use in financial planning. This process is outlined in the 2016 paper Great Expectations.
Using the December 2017 PWL Capital expected returns for a 50% stock 50% bond portfolio we are able to model the safe withdrawal rate for varying durations of retirement using Monte Carlo simulation. We will assume that a 95% success rate over 1,000 trials is sufficient to be called a safe withdrawal rate. For a 30-year retirement period, our Monte Carlo simulation gives us a 3.5% safe withdrawal rate. Pretty close to the original 4% rule, and spot on with Wade Pfau’s global revision of Bengen’s analysis. Now let’s say a 40-year old wants to retire today and assume life until age 95. That’s a 55-year retirement period. The safe withdrawal rate? 2.2%. I think that this is such an important message. The 4% rule falls apart over longer retirement periods. So far we have talked about spending a consistent inflation adjusted amount each year in retirement. One way to increase the amount that you can spend overall is allowing for variable spending. In general this means spending more when markets are good, and spending less when markets are bad. The result is more spending overall with a lower probability of running out of money. The catch is that you have to live with a variable income or have the ability to generate additional income from, say, working, to fill in the gaps when markets are not doing well.
We also need to talk about fees. Fees reduce returns. Fees may be negligible if you are using low-cost ETFs, but they become extremely important if you are using high-fee mutual funds, or if you are paying for financial advice. The safe withdrawal rate in the worst 30-year period in the US drops to 3.56% with a 1% fee, making the 4% rule the more like the 3.5% rule after a 1% fee.
Adding a 1% fee to the Monte Carlo simulation reduces the safe withdrawal rates by around 0.50% on average. In both cases this is a meaningful reduction in spending. Of course, fees need to be considered alongside the value being received in exchange for the fee. This value should be heavily tied to behavioural coaching and financial decision making. There have been two well-known attempts to quantify the value of financial advice, one by Vanguard and one by Morningstar. Vanguard estimated that between building a customized investment plan, minimizing risks and tax impacts, and behavioural coaching, good financial advice can add an average of 3% per year to returns. Morningstar looked at withdrawal strategies, asset allocation, tax efficiency, liability relative optimization, annuity allocation, and timing of social security (CPP in Canada), to arrive at a value-add of 2.34% per year.
PWL Capital’s Raymond Kerzerho has also written on this topic, finding an estimated value-add of just over 3% per year. Based on these analyses, one could argue that paying 1% for good financial advice could even increase your safe withdrawal rate. I would not go that far, but the point is that while fees are a consideration, they may be worthwhile in exchange for good advice.
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Read MoreHow To Retire Early Through Property Investing | A Retirement Planning Pension Strategy
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– Impossible is probably the
response most people will have when they see the
thumbnail for this video, but let me show you how, by taking action, you really can retire in
two years by investing in a certain type of property. (upbeat music) Hi, my name's Tony Law from
Your First Four Houses, and I teach people how to build
a small property portfolio that generates a great income
for them so they can give up their day job if they
wish because they're now financially free. So for 21 years, I ran a kitchen
business where I exchanged my time for money, but
in less than two years, I managed to replace that
kitchen income with a passive, or relatively passive, rental
income, and I want to show you how you can do exactly the same. So for this exercise, I'm not
gonna assume that you need 10,000 pounds a month to
retire and live comfortably. In fact, depending on
where you live in the U.K., the average household
incomes seems to be somewhere between 28 to 35,000 pounds
a year, although personally, I might struggle to live on
that if I'm being really honest, so let's just round that
up to 42,000 pounds a with an IRA for investment year which quite conveniently
helps me with the maths because it means that's 3,500
pounds a month that you need as a passive rental income. Now, for some that may seem
a little on the low side, but I think most people
could probably retire and live quite well on that
if they're being really honest if you had no other bills to pay. So we now have a clear goal. We need to earn 3,500
pounds a month passively moving forward, so let's
just break this down. How many rental units does
that actually equate to? Well, it obviously depends
on the type of deals that you're doing and the
strategy that you're following. In fact, to be honest, I've
got a property that by itself, one single property, after
all bills have been taken off, would cover that amount of
money, although for transparency, I've also got other properties
that only cashflow a couple of hundred pounds a month give or take, and it always surprises me,
there are people out there that have got properties
that simply don't cashflow at all, I just don't understand
that, but let's just say, for the sake of this
exercise, that on average, my property portfolio cashflows
about 500 pounds a month after all bills, so if you
wanted to hit 3,500 pounds a month, how many properties do you need? Well it's seven, isn't
it, nice and simple. It's seven at 500 pounds a
month, but can you acquire seven properties in two years? Yes, I know you can. Maybe in year number one
you might do two or three which will leave you maybe
four or five in year number two as your experience and
confidence grows, but I know that you can do it. Is it gonna be easy? No, you're gonna have to
put in some massive effort to hit this target. You're gonna have to
take a tonne of action, but I know that you can do
it, and if you want a list of 15 tasks that you can
do in the next seven days, check out this video because
I'll run you through exactly what you need to do in
order to hit that target. You see, the thing about
property investing that is quite magical, quite amazing
actually, is that you need to work really, really
hard for a couple of years, and if you do, you can replace
your income in its entirety after just maybe a
couple of years of work, and if I can in some way
help you in your journey, well that would make me very happy. I recently updated my 50 point
checklist that will run you through all the tasks you need to take before buying that next
investment property. If you'd like a copy, simply
click on the link here or in the description box
below and I'll send it straight out to you.
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Hi, my name is Phil. I’m a video creator and online instructor. I’m also a personal finance nerd. Because of that, I want to create a series of videos that breaks down some of the most mystifying topics that plague our society. In a world where people’s finances are typically locked away and not-talked about, I believe opening up the gates of financial conversation will help everyone live a better and smarter life. In this first video, I want to explain the shockingly simple math behind early retirement – thanks to one of my biggest heroes, Mr Money Mustache. While the ability to retire may seem like a distant and unreachable goal for many, the premise comes down to one thing. You need to invest money so that it earns more money.
This could be investing in stocks or bonds, real estate, or any other of investment vehicles. As soon as your investments earn enough money for you to live on each year, you are able to retire. Let’s break it down further to know when you can retire. The most important concept is knowing your savings rate, basically how much you make minus your expenses. If you spend 100% of your income, you will never retire… because you will never be able to invest any money that earns money for retirement. If you spend 0% of your income, you can retire right now… because somehow you are living without needing to make any more money. Between 0% and 100% are a number of savings rates that correlate with the years it will take to retire. For this, let’s assume your annual investment return is 5% (which is conservatively low) and your withdrawal rate is 4%… meaning you spend 4% of your net worth each year.
For example, if you have a $1,000,000 net worth, and you live on $40,000. If your savings rate is 10%, you will be able to safely retire after years. Safely, meaning you will never run out of money. If your savings rate is 25%, you can retire in years. 50%, you can retire in years. And if you can somehow save 75% of your income, you can retire in years. Now getting to that savings rate might not be easy in our world of societal pressures, keeping up with the Joneses, and bad habits. But you can get closer by making smart decisions, avoiding debt, and living simply. The key take away is… Cutting your spending rate is way more powerful than increasing your income because no matter how much money you make, decreasing your spending will speed up the process. A note, The math behind early retirement works if you are working a minimum wage job or a 7-figure CEO salary. It’s all about the savings rate. So if you want to retire in 10 years, the math tells us that you need to save 66% of your income. Now there is a lot that I didn’t talk about – like how to invest, and how to cut expenses to get to a high savings rate.
Those will come in a future video. For now, get excited about the honest truth about retirement (and early retirement at that!)! Let me know what you think in the comments below? Is this exciting or bogus? Until next time… start being money smart. .
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Read MoreWhen are you hoping to retire? Retirement financial tips
Harvey 0 Comments Planning your Retirement
– When will you retire? There's been much social
and political debate since the federal government
pushed out the age that you can access the age pension. Although most occupations don't have a legislative retirement date, there's no doubt that when
you can access an age pension does have an impact on the retirement date for many people. So, here's a few examples around when you might choose to retire. The first one is when I
can access the age pension. Unfortunately for many people, this will be the only option. If you don't have significant
assets behind you, superannuation, investment properties, savings, you may not be able to retire until you're eligible for the age pension. This is going to be age 67 by 2023. If the government's
current proposal is passed, it will be age 70 by 2035. If your retirement plans don't line up with when you would be
eligible for an age pension, you may choose to withdraw
funds out of superannuation for a year or two until you become eligible
for the age pension to help subsidize your income. You might choose to stop work as soon as you can get your
hands on your superannuation. For most people, this is age 60. However, if you were
born before the mid-'60s, it can be as low as 55, increasing to 60 over that timeframe. There are other options
you may wish to consider if you wish to retire this early or earlier as well and that is using assets
other than superannuation. This is because you are still taxed on accessing superannuation
until you're age 60. So, in a lot of cases, it can make sense to wait. So, that's the third option. Waiting until you can access
your super tax free at age 60. The downside of retiring early is that your retirement savings have to last a long time. So, this generally means you either have to have a large balance to begin with or have a low amount of drawings to ensure it's going to
last a long enough period and generally retirement
there's three phases. The first phase of retirement is when you're the fittest
and healthiest usually and you start to do the things perhaps on your bucket list. Do the travel thing, great nomad thing, maybe go overseas, do all the things you've wanted to do but haven't had time because maybe you've had
kids growing up at home, had a mortgage to pay and obviously time taken
up by paying the bills and working your job. However, with the right advice, there can be effective strategies that we can use to make sure that you can retire when you want to retire
and live the lifestyle you want to live. If what you're trying to
achieve isn't feasible, it's important to speak
with somebody's who's going to tell you exactly that as well. The decision on when to hang up the boots for the last time is a challenging decision both
financially and emotionally. I can assist in helping ensure that the day you choose puts you in the optimal position. (upbeat music)
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Read MoreHOW TO BECOME A MILLIONAIRE WITH $5 A DAY
Harvey 0 Comments Planning your Retirement
You know before making this video I was just thinking back to some of the greatest things that I learned in my days in school we sure did learn a lot of great stuff in school didn't we for example if you give me the link of two sides of this right triangle here I can actually tell you the length of this third side right here pretty useful stuff huh I can also write in cursive play hot cross buns on a recorder and I can even spell boobs on a calculator my favorite lesson in high school though was how to become a millionaire with just five dollars a day wait a second I didn't learn that in high school did I did you guys learn that in high school did anyone learn that important lesson in high school or was that just left out when we were learning how to cite a source using correct MLA format my point here is about 99% of what you learned in school is useless information and this is a very important lesson that was left out that I'm going to share with you guys today I'm going to show you how to become a millionaire with five dollars a day this is the magic of compound interest pretty magical all right so the first thing I want to point out to you guys is this you cannot save your way to millionaire status one of the most common things people tell you to do if you're looking to grow your wealth is to save your money and put it in the bank that is the most stupid piece of advice anyone could give you because that is a guaranteed way to lose money I'm going to explain why that is so first of all if you have five bucks a day can you simply save your way to millionaire status absolutely not here's an example let's say for whatever reason you were able to save five dollars a day from the day you were born to the day you were a hundred let's say you even lived to be a hundred years old if you save five bucks a day for a hundred years it will have one hundred eighty two thousand five hundred dollars that is a far cry from a million dollars so unless you're planning on living past five hundred years old you cannot save your way to millionaire status second of all interest rates in a savings account do not keep up with inflation so you cannot put your money in the bank and expect it to keep up with inflation so in 2016 inflation was two point one percent okay the average checking account pays zero point zero five percent interest on the money you put in there so here's just an example in terms of how much money you're losing by keeping your money in a savings account so ten thousand dollars in 2015 is equal to ten thousand two hundred sixteen based on that two point one percent rate of inflation now let's say you had ten thousand dollars in your checking account over that year as well so you're ten thousand dollars grew to an astounding dollar amount of ten thousand and fifty dollars at that point so you made fifty dollars okay also known as you just lost one hundred sixty dollars of value maybe that doesn't sound like a lot of money but if you had a hundred thousand dollars in there you just lost sixteen hundred if you had a million dollars you just lost sixteen thousand dollars because your interest rates are not keeping up with the rate of inflation so that is why a savings account is a guaranteed way to lose money so when people recommend you save your way to retirement or you save your way to being rich that's a guaranteed way to lose money there you're basically guaranteeing that you're going to fork over a lot of money because you're not going to keep up with the rate of inflation with what these banks pay you as far as interest goes so what is the solution to this problem I'm going to give it to you right now I'm going to show you how to become a millionaire with five bucks a day all that I ask you guys to do is subscribe to my channel and drop a like on this video and help this message be spread to other people out there who are stuck saving money in a bank account all right guys here it is here's how you become a millionaire with five bucks a day no this is not some course that I'm selling for a thousand dollars on how to become a millionaire that has 40 hours of video content this is this is four steps four steps guys and you can become a millionaire with five dollars a day okay here's how you do it number one set aside five dollars each day I'm talking about the amount of money you probably spend at Starbucks every single day at the end of the month you will have one hundred fifty dollars saved up okay what you're going to do with that money you're not going to put it in your bank account you're going to invest that money you're going to invest in a diversified portfolio of blue-chip stocks and investment-grade bonds okay for those of you who don't know blue chip stocks are these stocks of well-established companies they have a very high market capitalization they are things that have been investing in for many many years and over the last 100 years on average blue chip stocks have paid a 10 percent return you're also going to be investing in investment grade bonds these are high-quality low-risk bonds over the last 100 years these bonds have paid out on average 6% what I recommend doing is investing 50% of your money in blue chip stocks and 50% of your money in investment grade bonds over the last 100 years on average this portfolio page you 8% return on your investment you're never going to sell you're going to leave it there and you're going to let it compound over time you're taking advantage of compound interest now you may not have enough money each month to invest but you're going to save that money and when you do have enough money you're going to buy more shares of blue chip stocks and you're going to buy more investment grade bonds okay after 50 years now we're talking 50 years I know that sounds like a long time but like we said before if you save five dollars a day for a hundred years you'll have a hundred eighty two thousand five hundred dollars okay so now we're talking about half the time 50% less time we're talking 50 years okay you do this for 50 years and due to the magic of compound interest you now have a portfolio worth 1 million thirty two thousand seven hundred eighty six dollars and 28 cents you just became a millionaire for the price of a starbucks cup of coffee each day why is this lesson not being taught in school
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