Moving targets: Come on, how much super do I really need?
You’re thinking about your retirement and worried about whether you’ll have enough money to live the life you want, or perhaps you’re more worried about not having enough money to even live the life you don’t want!
Retirement: Why can’t $1 million last forever?
If you live off the earnings only from your invested capital then your capital can indeed last ‘forever’. The dilemma facing all investors and retirees is balancing the desired lifestyle (and maintaining that lifestyle over 20 to 30 years) with protecting capital and potentially leaving some wealth behind for your children or other dependants.
THE SOAPBOX: Does the Government think we’re stupid?
As a budding novelist, I love to read a good work of fiction, and on many levels, that’s an appropriate way to describe this latest Federal Budget – a fiction, or more precisely, an artifice. By treating the Budget as [...]
