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Mastering the FIRE Method: The Ultimate Guide to Early Retirement & Financial Independence
Jason 0 Comments Retire Wealthy Retirement Planning Tips for Retiree's
at some point of time you would have thought of retiring early or maybe you're thinking of it now and truth be told retirement is not about abandoning work there are very few who would say I won't work any further but what we yearn for is the freedom to operate to live life in the way we want and that brings us to the five moment now fire stands for financial Independence retirement it's a very catchy acronym and to put it in a nutshell it's a program that's designed around saving aggressively investing in high return instruments like equities and disciplined withdrawals which put together ensures you have enough money to cover your living expenses for the rest of your life and therefore retire early in this video I shall be explaining the concept in Greater details we look at the implementation steps some calculations and why fire needs to be a deliberate part of your financial life this might be a short video but it's a very powerful concept so let's begin the concept of fire was popularized in a book titled your money or your life it was built around self-sufficiency control over one's time moderate consumption and of course living life outside the nine to five for instance this guy Pete atney who is better known as Mr Money Mustache applied the fire principles which allowed him to retire from his job as a software engineer at the age of 30.
He's 48 now and he continues to live comfortably of his Investments after so many years and it's not just Pete there are writers bloggers people traveling the world software developers and even YouTubers who are using these principles to lead a more open life and have attached some articles and videos in the description to that effect some of these stories are really inspirational and it proves the fact that a little bit of planning on the financial side can have a profound impact on other aspects of one's life and in a very positive way now there are three parts one needs to address when implementing a fire strategy the first step is savings and the hardcore fire disciple is expected to save anywhere from 50 to 70 percent of one's monthly income this is of course easier said than done and probably where a lot of people make up their mind that this is not their cup of tea but from what I have read and what I've experienced the saving need not be always defined as a percentage and we can also work with absolute numbers which we'll see when I come to the calculations part now when we hear the word saving our first reaction or response is on reducing our expenses however money can also be saved by upping one's income which is what I suggest and it does make sense right I mean there is a limit to what one can save but income generation has a much longer Runway and in our case it can include taking a part-time job doing some consultancy work asking for a pay hike changing jobs for a better salary reskilling oneself or of course starting a side hustle which can be a mix of active and passive work in fact I have a friend in Bangalore who works as a data scientist from Monday to Friday and then on the weekends he takes classes on an edtech platform and also does some consultancy work to put it in numbers what was earlier a monthly saving of 50 000 Rupees is now easily over 2 lakhs a month and this guy has absolutely changed his life around by leveraging what he knows so he's on fire metaphorically speaking and the the fire strategy encourages us to find creative and better ways of increasing our savings rate the Second Step under the fire strategy is to spend wisely notice I didn't say don't spend I said spend wisely which means you need to identify what is an essential expense and what can be tagged as discretionary now people who practice Fire have a ton of helpful advice for us these include driving a good used car instead of a new one renting versus buying a house cooking at home rather than eating out track your daily expenses cancel unnecessary subscriptions Etc from what I've read these small steps can reduce your monthly expenses by up to 30 percent which if you choose to look at it differently is like getting a 30 incremented salary so you don't have to be stinky when it comes to your expenses but try to be a bit more rational about it and the third and final pillar in the fire system is the investment part now on a basic level the system requires advisors to invest as much money as you can and as early as possible so it's the principle of compounding at work here and this table here is a handy guide to how well your Corpus expands when you give it the necessary capital and a decent amount of time to grow now the fire method keeps this investing part ridiculously simple one you invest some money every month or as we call it you set up an sip a systematic investment plan and secondly this money is invested in a low cost Index Fund or ETF which in our case is either the nifty 50 or maybe a slightly broader Nifty 500 Index so essentially the focus here is to participate in the equity markets rather than actively trying to beat it which by my Reckoning should Fetchers and analyze return of 12 to 13 percent again the idea here is to maximize the returns which is why equities have been suggested but if that makes you a little uncomfortable then you can also settle for a mix of different asset classes which is something I explained in my video on asset allocation a few weeks back yet another investment you can make which is encouraged under the fire movement is on account of passive income dividends from stocks interest from your fixed deposits income from your blog your podcast YouTube channel monetization rental income are just some ways of making an Roi from physical or virtual assets now notice I have put this part under Investments and not income because passive income does require a lot of upfront work but once you do the hard work and you do it well one can expect a continuous stream of income over the next few years which will not only support your early retirement Ambitions but will also act as a safety net in fact there is something called an fi Ratio or the financial Independence ratio which largely means if your passive income is greater than your expenses then you're making some great progress on the path to financial Independence so to sum it up remember fire has three simple principles that you need to work on which is save more spend less and invest wisely if you're getting good value from this video then please do give this video a thumbs up and if you aren't a subscriber yet then do consider becoming one as I can then serve you videos as soon as they are released and also share with you some investing strategies tips and stories that are continually Post in the community section the original fire formula is based on the four percent rule which is the amount of saving you can safely withdraw every year without worrying that your money will run out for example let's say you are 29 years old and your monthly expenses are around 50 000 rupees if you want to retire at 40 then you have 11 years to accumulate a retirement fund so here's the math if household inflation is likely to grow by eight percent per annum then the 50 000 you spend now will rise to 1 lakh 16 000 rupees by the time you're 40.
So annually this comes to 14 lakh rupees and per the four percent rule it's 14 multiplied by 25 which means you need to accumulate a couples of three and a half crores to safely navigate through your retirement years or at least that's what the fire formula says now in my view there are some gaps with this four percent rule that I think we should all be aware of firstly this rule is okay for someone who has factored 25 maybe 30 years of retirement but if the retirement Horizon goes higher let's say 50 years for example then this formula starts getting a bit shaky and I've pinned a research study by Vanguard on this in the video's description secondly the four percent rule is a United States origination of the 1990s and has been tested on a historical basis when the yields on equities and Bonds were sufficiently high now we are not Americans and what works there will most likely not work for us which means there's an asset allocation and a market performance risk which needs to be accounted for and finally because each of us have our own preferences income goals saving patterns Etc I always felt it's important to have a customized fire implementation plan rather than picking something off the shelf which is why I created my own fire calculator which gives a clearer picture of how much I need to accumulate when can I idly retire how much withdrawals can I do on a monthly basis and at what point and in what circumstances my retirement money can run out so this obviously starts with the inputs and you need to type in your current age the age at which you want to retire and of course your life expectancy which I hope is strong and long then comes your current portfolio of Investments and this includes your mutual funds fds ppf EPF gold and other stuff and as a best practice kindly exclude the cost of the house where you will be staying post your retirement if you're still working then input the monthly savings and the annual increase you foresee input the expected returns from your investment the capital gain tax that can remain at 10 percent and finally have a view on how much will your expenses be in the first year of retirement and the expected household inflation rate and once we have these numbers keyed in as I have shown in this example the resulting output should clearly tell us three things one the amount of investment Corpus we need at the time of retirement which in this illustration is 2.2 crores at the age of 40.
Secondly we now have Clarity on how much can be spent on an early basis which starts from 12 lakhs so that's one lakh per month and it increases by eight percent every year and thirdly we get to know how sound or unsound this entire construct is like in this case our calculation shows that I'll run out of my money by the time I am 64 years old which is another way of saying that I need to rework my fire math which can include an increase in the monthly savings and the growth rate I can also consider extending my retirement age to a higher number let's say 45 years and finally I I can be a little careful with my expenses and instead of spending a lack of rupees maybe I can make do with 90 000. so there are many permutations and combinations you can look at but my suggestion is try to be a little conservative in your estimates especially when it comes to return on investment the inflation rate and the post retirement monthly expenses now for your benefit I have enclosed the link of this worksheet in the video's description it's a downloadable sheet all the formulas are open so feel free to change the numbers improve the formula if required add your own customization if it helps you but have a clear idea on when and where you need to be on the path to financial Independence so when I first heard and read about fire I was not a big fan of it I mean saving 50 to 7 20 percent of one salary is almost next to Impossible and I would have shut sharp had I not realized that as a method fire is quite flexible and can be used in many different ways so the calculator is one way and you can make a customized version of it but then there are more strategies there are more variants of the fire strategy and if you are interested then do read up on lean fire fat fire Coast fire and a few more of these in related articles that I've Linked In the video's description the point is and I myself realized a very late in life that many of us don't know when to retire how much is needed to retire which is why we continue working in a role or occupation that we don't enjoy much and that's where I think fire as a strategy might be the solution and it's just three things right increase your income and savings lower your expenses and get your Investments right so read up more about this concept in the Articles and websites I've added in the description and I sincerely hope you practice some sort of fire going forward if you found this video useful then do press the like button do subscribe to my channel share this video and I'll see you three days from now until then foreign
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Warren Buffett: Why Most People Should Invest In S&P 500 Index
Jason 0 Comments Retire Wealthy Retirement Planning
why have you advised your wife to invest in index funds after your death rather than berkshire hathaway i believe munger has cancelled his offspring to quote not be so dumb as to sell she she won't be she won't be selling any berkshire to buy the index funds all all of my berkshire every single share will go to philanthropy so that i don't even regard myself as owning berkshire you know basically it's it's committed and i've i so far about 40 percent has already been distributed so the question is somebody who is not an investment professional will be i hope reasonably elderly by the time that the uh estate gets settled and what is the best investment meaning one that there would be less worry of any kind connected with and less people coming around and saying why don't you sell this and do something else and all those things she's going to have more money than she needs and the big thing then you want is money not to be a problem and there will be no way that if she holds the s p of virtually no way absent something happened with weapons of mass destruction but virtually no way that she will shall have all the money that she possibly can use to have a little liquid money so that if stocks are down tremendously at some point they close the stock exchange for a while anything like that she'll still feel that she's got plenty of money and the object is not to maximize it doesn't make any difference whether the amount she gets doubles or triples or anything of the sort the important thing is that she never worries about money the rest of her life and i had an aunt katie here in omaha charlie knew well and worked for her husband as did i and she worked very hard all her life and had lived in a house she paid i think i don't know eight thousand dollars for 45th and hickory all her life and uh because she was in berkshire uh she ended up she lived in 97.
she ended up with you know a few hundred million and she would write me a letter every four or five months and she said dear warren you know i hate to bother you but am i going to run out of money and and i would i would write her back and i'd say dear katie it's a good question because if you live 986 years you're going to run out of money and and then about four or five months later she'd write me the same winner again and i i have seen there's no way in the world if you've got plenty of money that it should become a a minus in your life and there will be people if you've got a lot of money that come around with various suggestions for you sometimes well-meaning sometimes not so well-meaning so if you've got something that's certain to deliver you know it was all in berkshire they'd say well if warren was alive today you know he would be telling him to do this i i just don't want anybody to go through that and the s p will be a i think actually what i'm suggesting is what but a very high percentage of people should do something like that and i don't think they will have us i think there's a chance they won't have as much peace of mind if they own one stock and they've got neighbors and friends and relatives that are trying to do some like i say sometimes well-intentioned sometimes otherwise to do something else and so i think it's a policy that'll get a good result and it's likely to stick charlie well as becky said the wonders are different i i want them to hold the berkshire well i want to hold the berkshire too no i bet i mean i i i don't like them i recognize the logic of the fact that that s p algorithm is very hard to beat in a diversified portfolio of big companies it's all but impossible for most people but you know it's i'm just more comfortable with the berkshire well it's the family business yeah yeah but but it uh i've just i've seen too many people as they get older particularly being susceptible just having to listen to the arguments of people coming well if you're going to protect your heirs from the stupidity of others you may have some good system but i'm not much interested in that subject [Laughter] okay you
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Mastering the FIRE Method: The Ultimate Guide to Early Retirement & Financial Independence
Jason 0 Comments Retire Wealthy Retirement Planning Tips for Retiree's
at some point of time you would have thought of retiring early or maybe you're thinking of it now and truth be told retirement is not about abandoning work there are very few who would say I won't work any further but what we yearn for is the freedom to operate to live life in the way we want and that brings us to the five moment now fire stands for financial Independence retirement it's a very catchy acronym and to put it in a nutshell it's a program that's designed around saving aggressively investing in high return instruments like equities and disciplined withdrawals which put together ensures you have enough money to cover your living expenses for the rest of your life and therefore retire early in this video I shall be explaining the concept in Greater details we look at the implementation steps some calculations and why fire needs to be a deliberate part of your financial life this might be a short video but it's a very powerful concept so let's begin the concept of fire was popularized in a book titled your money or your life it was built around self-sufficiency control over one's time moderate consumption and of course living life outside the nine to five for instance this guy Pete atney who is better known as Mr Money Mustache applied the fire principles which allowed him to retire from his job as a software engineer at the age of 30.
He's 48 now and he continues to live comfortably of his Investments after so many years and it's not just Pete there are writers bloggers people traveling the world software developers and even YouTubers who are using these principles to lead a more open life and have attached some articles and videos in the description to that effect some of these stories are really inspirational and it proves the fact that a little bit of planning on the financial side can have a profound impact on other aspects of one's life and in a very positive way now there are three parts one needs to address when implementing a fire strategy the first step is savings and the hardcore fire disciple is expected to save anywhere from 50 to 70 percent of one's monthly income this is of course easier said than done and probably where a lot of people make up their mind that this is not their cup of tea but from what I have read and what I've experienced the saving need not be always defined as a percentage and we can also work with absolute numbers which we'll see when I come to the calculations part now when we hear the word saving our first reaction or response is on reducing our expenses however money can also be saved by upping one's income which is what I suggest and it does make sense right I mean there is a limit to what one can save but income generation has a much longer Runway and in our case it can include taking a part-time job doing some consultancy work asking for a pay hike changing jobs for a better salary reskilling oneself or of course starting a side hustle which can be a mix of active and passive work in fact I have a friend in Bangalore who works as a data scientist from Monday to Friday and then on the weekends he takes classes on an edtech platform and also does some consultancy work to put it in numbers what was earlier a monthly saving of 50 000 Rupees is now easily over 2 lakhs a month and this guy has absolutely changed his life around by leveraging what he knows so he's on fire metaphorically speaking and the the fire strategy encourages us to find creative and better ways of increasing our savings rate the Second Step under the fire strategy is to spend wisely notice I didn't say don't spend I said spend wisely which means you need to identify what is an essential expense and what can be tagged as discretionary now people who practice Fire have a ton of helpful advice for us these include driving a good used car instead of a new one renting versus buying a house cooking at home rather than eating out track your daily expenses cancel unnecessary subscriptions Etc from what I've read these small steps can reduce your monthly expenses by up to 30 percent which if you choose to look at it differently is like getting a 30 incremented salary so you don't have to be stinky when it comes to your expenses but try to be a bit more rational about it and the third and final pillar in the fire system is the investment part now on a basic level the system requires advisors to invest as much money as you can and as early as possible so it's the principle of compounding at work here and this table here is a handy guide to how well your Corpus expands when you give it the necessary capital and a decent amount of time to grow now the fire method keeps this investing part ridiculously simple one you invest some money every month or as we call it you set up an sip a systematic investment plan and secondly this money is invested in a low cost Index Fund or ETF which in our case is either the nifty 50 or maybe a slightly broader Nifty 500 Index so essentially the focus here is to participate in the equity markets rather than actively trying to beat it which by my Reckoning should Fetchers and analyze return of 12 to 13 percent again the idea here is to maximize the returns which is why equities have been suggested but if that makes you a little uncomfortable then you can also settle for a mix of different asset classes which is something I explained in my video on asset allocation a few weeks back yet another investment you can make which is encouraged under the fire movement is on account of passive income dividends from stocks interest from your fixed deposits income from your blog your podcast YouTube channel monetization rental income are just some ways of making an Roi from physical or virtual assets now notice I have put this part under Investments and not income because passive income does require a lot of upfront work but once you do the hard work and you do it well one can expect a continuous stream of income over the next few years which will not only support your early retirement Ambitions but will also act as a safety net in fact there is something called an fi Ratio or the financial Independence ratio which largely means if your passive income is greater than your expenses then you're making some great progress on the path to financial Independence so to sum it up remember fire has three simple principles that you need to work on which is save more spend less and invest wisely if you're getting good value from this video then please do give this video a thumbs up and if you aren't a subscriber yet then do consider becoming one as I can then serve you videos as soon as they are released and also share with you some investing strategies tips and stories that are continually Post in the community section the original fire formula is based on the four percent rule which is the amount of saving you can safely withdraw every year without worrying that your money will run out for example let's say you are 29 years old and your monthly expenses are around 50 000 rupees if you want to retire at 40 then you have 11 years to accumulate a retirement fund so here's the math if household inflation is likely to grow by eight percent per annum then the 50 000 you spend now will rise to 1 lakh 16 000 rupees by the time you're 40.
So annually this comes to 14 lakh rupees and per the four percent rule it's 14 multiplied by 25 which means you need to accumulate a couples of three and a half crores to safely navigate through your retirement years or at least that's what the fire formula says now in my view there are some gaps with this four percent rule that I think we should all be aware of firstly this rule is okay for someone who has factored 25 maybe 30 years of retirement but if the retirement Horizon goes higher let's say 50 years for example then this formula starts getting a bit shaky and I've pinned a research study by Vanguard on this in the video's description secondly the four percent rule is a United States origination of the 1990s and has been tested on a historical basis when the yields on equities and Bonds were sufficiently high now we are not Americans and what works there will most likely not work for us which means there's an asset allocation and a market performance risk which needs to be accounted for and finally because each of us have our own preferences income goals saving patterns Etc I always felt it's important to have a customized fire implementation plan rather than picking something off the shelf which is why I created my own fire calculator which gives a clearer picture of how much I need to accumulate when can I idly retire how much withdrawals can I do on a monthly basis and at what point and in what circumstances my retirement money can run out so this obviously starts with the inputs and you need to type in your current age the age at which you want to retire and of course your life expectancy which I hope is strong and long then comes your current portfolio of Investments and this includes your mutual funds fds ppf EPF gold and other stuff and as a best practice kindly exclude the cost of the house where you will be staying post your retirement if you're still working then input the monthly savings and the annual increase you foresee input the expected returns from your investment the capital gain tax that can remain at 10 percent and finally have a view on how much will your expenses be in the first year of retirement and the expected household inflation rate and once we have these numbers keyed in as I have shown in this example the resulting output should clearly tell us three things one the amount of investment Corpus we need at the time of retirement which in this illustration is 2.2 crores at the age of 40.
Secondly we now have Clarity on how much can be spent on an early basis which starts from 12 lakhs so that's one lakh per month and it increases by eight percent every year and thirdly we get to know how sound or unsound this entire construct is like in this case our calculation shows that I'll run out of my money by the time I am 64 years old which is another way of saying that I need to rework my fire math which can include an increase in the monthly savings and the growth rate I can also consider extending my retirement age to a higher number let's say 45 years and finally I I can be a little careful with my expenses and instead of spending a lack of rupees maybe I can make do with 90 000.
So there are many permutations and combinations you can look at but my suggestion is try to be a little conservative in your estimates especially when it comes to return on investment the inflation rate and the post retirement monthly expenses now for your benefit I have enclosed the link of this worksheet in the video's description it's a downloadable sheet all the formulas are open so feel free to change the numbers improve the formula if required add your own customization if it helps you but have a clear idea on when and where you need to be on the path to financial Independence so when I first heard and read about fire I was not a big fan of it I mean saving 50 to 7 20 percent of one salary is almost next to Impossible and I would have shut sharp had I not realized that as a method fire is quite flexible and can be used in many different ways so the calculator is one way and you can make a customized version of it but then there are more strategies there are more variants of the fire strategy and if you are interested then do read up on lean fire fat fire Coast fire and a few more of these in related articles that I've Linked In the video's description the point is and I myself realized a very late in life that many of us don't know when to retire how much is needed to retire which is why we continue working in a role or occupation that we don't enjoy much and that's where I think fire as a strategy might be the solution and it's just three things right increase your income and savings lower your expenses and get your Investments right so read up more about this concept in the Articles and websites I've added in the description and I sincerely hope you practice some sort of fire going forward if you found this video useful then do press the like button do subscribe to my channel share this video and I'll see you three days from now until then foreign
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Mastering the FIRE Method: The Ultimate Guide to Early Retirement & Financial Independence
Jason 0 Comments Retire Wealthy Retirement Planning Tips for Retiree's
at some point of time you would have thought of retiring early or maybe you're thinking of it now and truth be told retirement is not about abandoning work there are very few who would say I won't work any further but what we yearn for is the freedom to operate to live life in the way we want and that brings us to the five moment now fire stands for financial Independence retirement it's a very catchy acronym and to put it in a nutshell it's a program that's designed around saving aggressively investing in high return instruments like equities and disciplined withdrawals which put together ensures you have enough money to cover your living expenses for the rest of your life and therefore retire early in this video I shall be explaining the concept in Greater details we look at the implementation steps some calculations and why fire needs to be a deliberate part of your financial life this might be a short video but it's a very powerful concept so let's begin the concept of fire was popularized in a book titled your money or your life it was built around self-sufficiency control over one's time moderate consumption and of course living life outside the nine to five for instance this guy Pete atney who is better known as Mr Money Mustache applied the fire principles which allowed him to retire from his job as a software engineer at the age of 30.
He's 48 now and he continues to live comfortably of his Investments after so many years and it's not just Pete there are writers bloggers people traveling the world software developers and even YouTubers who are using these principles to lead a more open life and have attached some articles and videos in the description to that effect some of these stories are really inspirational and it proves the fact that a little bit of planning on the financial side can have a profound impact on other aspects of one's life and in a very positive way now there are three parts one needs to address when implementing a fire strategy the first step is savings and the hardcore fire disciple is expected to save anywhere from 50 to 70 percent of one's monthly income this is of course easier said than done and probably where a lot of people make up their mind that this is not their cup of tea but from what I have read and what I've experienced the saving need not be always defined as a percentage and we can also work with absolute numbers which we'll see when I come to the calculations part now when we hear the word saving our first reaction or response is on reducing our expenses however money can also be saved by upping one's income which is what I suggest and it does make sense right I mean there is a limit to what one can save but income generation has a much longer Runway and in our case it can include taking a part-time job doing some consultancy work asking for a pay hike changing jobs for a better salary reskilling oneself or of course starting a side hustle which can be a mix of active and passive work in fact I have a friend in Bangalore who works as a data scientist from Monday to Friday and then on the weekends he takes classes on an edtech platform and also does some consultancy work to put it in numbers what was earlier a monthly saving of 50 000 Rupees is now easily over 2 lakhs a month and this guy has absolutely changed his life around by leveraging what he knows so he's on fire metaphorically speaking and the the fire strategy encourages us to find creative and better ways of increasing our savings rate the Second Step under the fire strategy is to spend wisely notice I didn't say don't spend I said spend wisely which means you need to identify what is an essential expense and what can be tagged as discretionary now people who practice Fire have a ton of helpful advice for us these include driving a good used car instead of a new one renting versus buying a house cooking at home rather than eating out track your daily expenses cancel unnecessary subscriptions Etc from what I've read these small steps can reduce your monthly expenses by up to 30 percent which if you choose to look at it differently is like getting a 30 incremented salary so you don't have to be stinky when it comes to your expenses but try to be a bit more rational about it and the third and final pillar in the fire system is the investment part now on a basic level the system requires advisors to invest as much money as you can and as early as possible so it's the principle of compounding at work here and this table here is a handy guide to how well your Corpus expands when you give it the necessary capital and a decent amount of time to grow now the fire method keeps this investing part ridiculously simple one you invest some money every month or as we call it you set up an sip a systematic investment plan and secondly this money is invested in a low cost Index Fund or ETF which in our case is either the nifty 50 or maybe a slightly broader Nifty 500 Index so essentially the focus here is to participate in the equity markets rather than actively trying to beat it which by my Reckoning should Fetchers and analyze return of 12 to 13 percent again the idea here is to maximize the returns which is why equities have been suggested but if that makes you a little uncomfortable then you can also settle for a mix of different asset classes which is something I explained in my video on asset allocation a few weeks back yet another investment you can make which is encouraged under the fire movement is on account of passive income dividends from stocks interest from your fixed deposits income from your blog your podcast YouTube channel monetization rental income are just some ways of making an Roi from physical or virtual assets now notice I have put this part under Investments and not income because passive income does require a lot of upfront work but once you do the hard work and you do it well one can expect a continuous stream of income over the next few years which will not only support your early retirement Ambitions but will also act as a safety net in fact there is something called an fi Ratio or the financial Independence ratio which largely means if your passive income is greater than your expenses then you're making some great progress on the path to financial Independence so to sum it up remember fire has three simple principles that you need to work on which is save more spend less and invest wisely if you're getting good value from this video then please do give this video a thumbs up and if you aren't a subscriber yet then do consider becoming one as I can then serve you videos as soon as they are released and also share with you some investing strategies tips and stories that are continually Post in the community section the original fire formula is based on the four percent rule which is the amount of saving you can safely withdraw every year without worrying that your money will run out for example let's say you are 29 years old and your monthly expenses are around 50 000 rupees if you want to retire at 40 then you have 11 years to accumulate a retirement fund so here's the math if household inflation is likely to grow by eight percent per annum then the 50 000 you spend now will rise to 1 lakh 16 000 rupees by the time you're 40.
So annually this comes to 14 lakh rupees and per the four percent rule it's 14 multiplied by 25 which means you need to accumulate a couples of three and a half crores to safely navigate through your retirement years or at least that's what the fire formula says now in my view there are some gaps with this four percent rule that I think we should all be aware of firstly this rule is okay for someone who has factored 25 maybe 30 years of retirement but if the retirement Horizon goes higher let's say 50 years for example then this formula starts getting a bit shaky and I've pinned a research study by Vanguard on this in the video's description secondly the four percent rule is a United States origination of the 1990s and has been tested on a historical basis when the yields on equities and Bonds were sufficiently high now we are not Americans and what works there will most likely not work for us which means there's an asset allocation and a market performance risk which needs to be accounted for and finally because each of us have our own preferences income goals saving patterns Etc I always felt it's important to have a customized fire implementation plan rather than picking something off the shelf which is why I created my own fire calculator which gives a clearer picture of how much I need to accumulate when can I idly retire how much withdrawals can I do on a monthly basis and at what point and in what circumstances my retirement money can run out so this obviously starts with the inputs and you need to type in your current age the age at which you want to retire and of course your life expectancy which I hope is strong and long then comes your current portfolio of Investments and this includes your mutual funds fds ppf EPF gold and other stuff and as a best practice kindly exclude the cost of the house where you will be staying post your retirement if you're still working then input the monthly savings and the annual increase you foresee input the expected returns from your investment the capital gain tax that can remain at 10 percent and finally have a view on how much will your expenses be in the first year of retirement and the expected household inflation rate and once we have these numbers keyed in as I have shown in this example the resulting output should clearly tell us three things one the amount of investment Corpus we need at the time of retirement which in this illustration is 2.2 crores at the age of 40.
Secondly we now have Clarity on how much can be spent on an early basis which starts from 12 lakhs so that's one lakh per month and it increases by eight percent every year and thirdly we get to know how sound or unsound this entire construct is like in this case our calculation shows that I'll run out of my money by the time I am 64 years old which is another way of saying that I need to rework my fire math which can include an increase in the monthly savings and the growth rate I can also consider extending my retirement age to a higher number let's say 45 years and finally I I can be a little careful with my expenses and instead of spending a lack of rupees maybe I can make do with 90 000. so there are many permutations and combinations you can look at but my suggestion is try to be a little conservative in your estimates especially when it comes to return on investment the inflation rate and the post retirement monthly expenses now for your benefit I have enclosed the link of this worksheet in the video's description it's a downloadable sheet all the formulas are open so feel free to change the numbers improve the formula if required add your own customization if it helps you but have a clear idea on when and where you need to be on the path to financial Independence so when I first heard and read about fire I was not a big fan of it I mean saving 50 to 7 20 percent of one salary is almost next to Impossible and I would have shut sharp had I not realized that as a method fire is quite flexible and can be used in many different ways so the calculator is one way and you can make a customized version of it but then there are more strategies there are more variants of the fire strategy and if you are interested then do read up on lean fire fat fire Coast fire and a few more of these in related articles that I've Linked In the video's description the point is and I myself realized a very late in life that many of us don't know when to retire how much is needed to retire which is why we continue working in a role or occupation that we don't enjoy much and that's where I think fire as a strategy might be the solution and it's just three things right increase your income and savings lower your expenses and get your Investments right so read up more about this concept in the Articles and websites I've added in the description and I sincerely hope you practice some sort of fire going forward if you found this video useful then do press the like button do subscribe to my channel share this video and I'll see you three days from now until then foreign
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How Wealth Inequality Spiraled Out of Control | Robert Reich
Jason 0 Comments Retire Wealthy
Elon Musk's wealth has surpassed $200
billion. It would take the median U.S. worker OVER 4 MILLION YEARS to make that much.
Wealth inequality is eating this country alive. We’re now in America’s second Gilded Age, just like the late 19th century when a handful
of robber barons monopolized the economy kept wages down, and bribed lawmakers. While today’s robber barons take joy rides
into space, the distance between their gargantuan wealth and the financial struggles
of working Americans has never been clearer. During the first 19 months of the
pandemic, U.S. billionaires added $2.1 TRILLION dollars to their collective wealth. And the rich have enough political power to cut their taxes to almost nothing
— sometimes literally nothing. In fact, Jeff Bezos paid no federal
income taxes in 2007 or in 2011. By 2018, the 400 richest Americans paid a
lower overall tax rate than almost anyone else. But we can't solve this problem unless we
know how it was created in the first place. Let’s start with the basics. Wealth inequality in America is
far larger than income inequality. "Income" is what you earn each week or month or
year.
"Wealth" refers to the sum total of your assets — your car, home, art — anything else
you own that’s valuable. Valuable not only because there’s
a market for it — a price other people are willing to pay to buy it — but because wealth itself grows. As the population expands and the
nation becomes more productive, the overall economy continues to expand. This
expansion pushes up the values of stocks, bonds, rental property,
homes, and most other assets. Of course recessions and occasional depressions
can reduce the value of such assets. But over the long haul, the value
of almost all wealth INCREASES. Next: personal wealth comes from two sources. The first source is the income you earn
but don’t spend. That’s your savings. When you invest those savings in stocks,
bonds, or real property or other assets, you create your personal wealth, which,
as we’ve seen, grows over time.
The second source of personal wealth is whatever
is handed down to you from your parents, grandparents, and maybe even generations
before them — in other words, what you INHERIT. The wealth gap between the richest
Americans and everyone else is staggering. In the 1970s, the wealthiest 1% owned about
20% of the nation’s total household wealth. Now, they own OVER 35%.
Much of their gains over the last 40 years have come from a dramatic
increase in the value of shares of stock. For example, if someone invested $1,000 in 1978 in
a broad index of stocks — say, the S&P 500 — they would have $31,823 today, adjusted for inflation. Who's benefited from this surge? The richest 1%, who now own
HALF of the entire stock market. But the typical worker’s wages have
barely grown. Most Americans haven’t earned nearly enough to save anything. Before the pandemic, when the economy appeared to be doing well, almost 80% were living paycheck to paycheck. So as income inequality has widened, the
amount that the few high-earning households save — their wealth — has continued to grow.
Their growing wealth has allowed them to pass on more and more wealth to their heirs. Take, for example, the Waltons
— the family behind the Walmart empire — which has seven heirs on the Forbes billionaires list.
Their children, and other rich
millennials, will soon consolidate even more of the nation’s wealth. America is
now on the cusp of the largest intergenerational transfer of wealth in history.
As wealthy boomers pass on, somewhere between $30 to $70 TRILLION will go
to their children over the next three decades. These children will be able to
live off of this wealth, and then leave the bulk of it — which will continue
growing — to their own children … tax-free. After a few generations of this,
almost all of America’s wealth could be in the hands of a few thousand families. Concentrated wealth is already
endangering our democracy. Wealth doesn’t just beget more
wealth — it begets more POWER.
Dynastic wealth concentrates power into
the hands of fewer and fewer people, who can choose what nonprofits and charities
to support, and which politicians to bankroll. This gives an unelected elite enormous sway
over both our economy and our democracy. We might come to resemble the kind of dynasties
common to European aristocracies in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.
Dynastic wealth makes a mockery of the idea that America is a meritocracy, where anyone can
make it on the basis of their own efforts. It also runs counter to the basic economic ideas
that people earn what they’re worth in the market, and that economic gains
should go to those who deserve them.
Finally, wealth concentration magnifies gender and
race disparities because women and people of color tend to make less, save less, and inherit less. The typical single woman owns only 32 cents of wealth for every dollar of wealth owned by a man. The pandemic likely increased this gap. The racial wealth gap is even
starker. The typical Black household owns just 13 cents of wealth for every dollar
of wealth owned by the typical white household. The pandemic likely increased this gap, too.
In all these ways, dynastic wealth creates a self-perpetuating aristocracy that runs
counter to the ideals we claim to live by. The last time America faced anything
comparable to the concentration of wealth we face today was at the turn of the 20th century. That was when President Teddy Roosevelt warned
that “a small class of enormously wealthy and economically powerful men, whose chief
object is to hold and increase their power,” could destroy American democracy.
Roosevelt’s answer then was to tax wealth. Congress enacted two kinds of wealth taxes. The first, in 1916, was the estate tax — a tax on the wealth someone has
accumulated during their lifetime, paid by the heirs who inherit that wealth.
The second tax on wealth, enacted in 1922, was a capital gains tax — a tax on the increased
value of those assets, paid when those assets are sold.
But both of these wealth taxes have shrunk
since then, or become so riddled with loopholes that they haven’t been able to prevent a
new American aristocracy from emerging. The Trump Republican tax cut enabled individuals
to exclude $11.18 million from their estate taxes. That means ONE COUPLE can pass on more
than $22 million to their kids tax-free. Not to mention the very rich often find ways
around this tax entirely. As Trump’s former White House National Economic Council director Gary Cohn
put it, “Only morons pay the estate tax.” What about capital gains on the soaring
values of wealthy people’s stocks, bonds, mansions, and works of art?
Here, the biggest loophole is something called the stepped-up basis.
If the wealthy hold on to their
assets until they die, their heirs inherit them without paying any capital gains taxes whatsoever.
All the increased value of those assets is simply erased, for tax purposes. This loophole
saves heirs an estimated $40 billion a year. This means that huge accumulations of wealth
in the hands of a relatively few households can be passed from generation to generation
untaxed — growing along the way — generating comfortable incomes for rich descendants who
will never have to work a day of their lives. That’s the dynastic class
we’re creating right now. Why have these two wealth taxes eroded?
Because, as America’s wealth has concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, the wealthy have more
capacity to donate to political campaigns and public relations — and they’ve used that
political power to reduce their taxes. It’s exactly what Teddy Roosevelt
feared so many years ago. So what do we do? Follow the wisdom of Teddy
Roosevelt and tax great accumulations of wealth. The ultra-rich have benefited from the American
system — from laws that protect their wealth, and our economy that enabled them to
build their fortunes in the first place. The majority of Americans, both Democrats and Republicans, believe the
ultra-rich should pay higher taxes. There are many ways to make them do so: Closing the stepped up basis loophole, raising
the capital gains tax, and fully funding the Internal Revenue Service so it can properly
audit the wealthiest taxpayers, for starters.
Beyond those fixes, we need a new wealth
tax: a tax of just 2% a year on wealth in excess of $1 million.
That’s hardly a drop in the bucket for centi-billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk,
but it would generate plenty of revenue to invest in healthcare and education so that millions
of Americans have a fair shot at making it. One of the most important things you as an
individual can do is take the time to understand the realities of wealth inequality in America
and how the system has become rigged in favor of those at the top — and demand your political
representatives take action to unrig it. Wealth inequality is worse
than it has been in a century. We have to stop this vicious cycle — and demand an
economy that works for the many, not one that concentrates more and more wealth
in the hands of a privileged few.
Mastering the FIRE Method: The Ultimate Guide to Early Retirement & Financial Independence
Jason 0 Comments Retire Wealthy Retirement Planning Tips for Retiree's
at some point of time you would have thought about retiring early or perhaps you'' re reasoning of it currently and also truth be told retirement is not concerning deserting work there are very few who would claim I won'' t work any type of further yet what we wish for is the liberty to run to live life in the means we desire and also that brings us to the five minute currently discharge mean economic Independence retirement it'' s a very memorable acronym and also to put it in a nutshell it'' s a program that'' s made around saving aggressively purchasing high return tools like equities and also self-displined withdrawals which assemble ensures you have adequate cash to cover your living expenses for the remainder of your life as well as consequently retire early in this video clip I will be explaining the concept in Greater details we check out the implementation steps some computations and why fire needs to be a purposeful component of your economic life this may be a brief video clip but it'' s a really effective principle so let'' s start the principle of fire was promoted in a book labelled your cash or your life it was built around self-sufficiency control over one'' s time moderate intake and also certainly living life outside the 9 to five as an example this individual Pete atney who is far better understood as Mr Cash Mustache used the fire principles which enabled him to retire from his job as a software designer at the age of 30.
He'' s 48 now and he remains to live conveniently of his Investments after so many years and also it'' s not simply Pete there are writers blog owners people traveling the globe software program designers and also YouTubers that are using these concepts to lead a more open life and have actually connected some posts and also video clips in the description to that result some of these tales are really inspiring as well as it verifies the reality that a little of planning on the financial side can have a profound effect on other facets of one'' s life and also in a very favorable way currently there are three parts one needs to address when executing a fire strategy the primary step is financial savings as well as the hardcore fire disciple is expected to save anywhere from 50 to 70 percent of one'' s month-to-month revenue this is obviously less complicated said than done as well as most likely where a lot of people make up their mind that this is not their mug of tea but from what I have reviewed and what I'' ve experienced the saving need not be always specified as a portion as well as we can also collaborate with outright numbers which we'' ll see when I pertain to the estimations part currently when we hear words conserving our first response or feedback is on reducing our expenditures however cash can likewise be conserved by upping one'' s earnings which is what I recommend and also it does make good sense right I indicate there is a restriction to what one can conserve yet earnings generation has a much longer Path and in our situation it can include taking a part-time work doing some working as a consultant job asking for a pay walk transforming work for a far better salary reskilling oneself or obviously beginning a side hustle which can be a mix of active and also passive operate in truth I have a buddy in Bangalore who functions as a data scientist from Monday to Friday and then on the weekends he takes classes on an edtech system and likewise does some consultancy job to put it in numbers what was earlier a regular monthly saving of 50 000 Rupees is now quickly over 2 lakhs a month and also this guy has absolutely transformed his life around by leveraging what he recognizes so he'' s ablaze metaphorically talking as well as the the fire technique encourages us to find imaginative and also better ways of boosting our cost savings rate the Second Step under the fire approach is to invest carefully notice I didn'' t say don ' t invest I said spend sensibly which implies you need to recognize what is a necessary cost and also what can be labelled as discretionary currently people who exercise Fire have a bunch of helpful guidance for us these include driving an excellent pre-owned auto rather than a brand-new one renting out versus acquiring a house cooking in your home instead than consuming out track your everyday expenses terminate unnecessary memberships And so on from what I'' ve check out these small steps can minimize your regular monthly expenditures by as much as 30 percent which if you choose to take a look at it in a different way resembles obtaining a 30 incremented income so you wear'' t have to be stinky when it comes to your expenditures but attempt to be a bit extra logical regarding it and the third and final column in the fire system is the investment component currently on a standard level the system requires experts to invest as much cash as you can and as early as possible so it'' s the concept of compounding at job below and this table right here is a handy overview to how well your Corpus increases when you provide it the necessary capital and a good amount of time to expand currently the fire method maintains this spending component ridiculously easy one you spend some cash on a monthly basis or as we call it you established an sip an organized financial investment strategy as well as secondly this cash is purchased an inexpensive Index Fund or ETF which in our instance is either the cool 50 or perhaps a somewhat more comprehensive Nifty 500 Index so basically the focus below is to take part in the equity markets as opposed to proactively attempting to defeat it which by my Projection ought to Fetchers as well as assess return of 12 to 13 percent again the idea below is to take full advantage of the returns which is why equities have actually been recommended however if that makes you a little unpleasant after that you can also opt for a mix of various possession courses which is something I discussed in my video clip on asset appropriation a few weeks back yet an additional financial investment you can make which is motivated under the fire activity gets on account of easy income dividends from supplies rate of interest from your taken care of down payments revenue from your blog site your podcast YouTube channel monetization rental revenue are just some methods of making an Roi from physical or digital properties currently observe I have put this component under Investments as well as not earnings because easy earnings does call for a lot of in advance work but once you do the effort and you do it well one can anticipate a continuous stream of income over the following few years which will certainly not just support your layoff Passions however will also function as a safety net as a matter of fact there is something called an fi Ratio or the financial Self-reliance ratio which largely implies if your easy revenue is more than your costs after that you'' re making some wonderful progress on the path to monetary Independence so to sum it up keep in mind fire has three basic principles that you require to deal with which is conserve more spend much less and also invest intelligently if you'' re obtaining great value from this video clip then please do give this video clip a thumbs up as well as if you aren'' t a client yet after that do take into consideration becoming one as I can after that serve you videos as quickly as they are released and additionally show you some investing approaches suggestions and also tales that are consistently Message in the area section the original fire formula is based on the 4 percent rule which is the quantity of conserving you can securely take out each year without fretting that your cash will go out for example allowed'' s claim you are 29 years old as well as your month-to-month expenses are around 50 000 rupees if you intend to retire at 40 then you have 11 years to gather a retirement fund so below'' s the mathematics if household rising cost of living is likely to grow by 8 percent per year after that the 50 000 you invest currently will certainly rise to 1 lakh 16 000 rupees by the time you'' re 40.
So annually this pertains to 14 lakh rupees and per the 4 percent policy it'' s 14 multiplied by 25 which means you require to accumulate a pairs of three and a fifty percent crores to securely browse with your retirement years or at the very least that'' s what the fire formula says currently in my view there are some gaps with this four percent regulation that I assume we must all know first of all this regulation is fine for someone that has factored 25 perhaps three decades of retirement yet if the retirement Perspective goes greater allow'' s state half a century as an example after that this formula begins obtaining a little bit shaky and also I'' ve pinned a research study by Vanguard on this in the video clip'' s summary second of all the 4 percent guideline is an USA origination of the 1990s and has been tested on a historical basis when the yields on equities and also Bonds were sufficiently high currently we are not Americans and what works there will more than likely not help us which indicates there'' s an asset allotment as well as a market efficiency risk which requires to be made up and also ultimately because each of us have our own choices revenue goals saving patterns Etc I constantly felt it'' s vital to have actually a personalized fire execution strategy rather than picking something off the shelf which is why I produced my very own fire calculator which gives a more clear photo of just how much I require to accumulate when can I lazily retire exactly how much withdrawals can I do on a monthly basis and also at what factor as well as in what situations my retired life cash can run out so this undoubtedly starts with the inputs as well as you require to enter your current age the age at which you wish to retire and of program your life expectations which I wish is strong and lengthy after that comes your present portfolio of Investments and also this includes your shared funds fds ppf EPF gold as well as other stuff and also as a best practice kindly exclude the price of your house where you will be remaining message your retirement if you'' re still functioning after that input the monthly financial savings as well as the yearly boost you predict input the expected returns from your financial investment the resources gain tax obligation that can remain at 10 percent as well as lastly have a view on how a lot will certainly your expenses be in the first year of retired life and also the anticipated house inflation price as well as as soon as we have actually these numbers keyed in as I have received this example the resulting outcome must clearly tell us 3 things one the amount of financial investment Corpus we require at the time of retired life which in this picture is 2.2 crores at the age of 40.
We currently have Quality on exactly how much can be invested on an early basis which starts from 12 lakhs so that'' s one lakh per month and it increases by 8 percent every year and also third we get to recognize how sound or unsound this whole construct is like in this situation our computation shows that I'' ll run out of my money by the time I am 64 years old which is one more way of stating that I require to rework my fire math which can consist of a rise in the month-to-month savings and also the development price I can likewise consider expanding my retired life age to a greater number allow'' s say 45 years and lastly I I can be a little mindful with my expenses and rather of investing an absence of rupees possibly I can make do with 90 000. so there are lots of permutations and mixes you can check out but my recommendation is attempt to be a little traditional in your quotes specifically when it concerns return on investment the rising cost of living price as well as the article retirement month-to-month expenditures currently for your advantage I have actually enclosed the link of this worksheet in the video clip'' s description it ' s a downloadable sheet all the solutions are open so feel cost-free to transform the numbers boost the formula if required add your very own customization if it assists you however have a clear concept on when and where you require to be on the course to economic Independence so when I initially heard as well as checked out concerning fire I was not a big fan of it I imply saving 50 to 7 20 percent of one income is almost beside Difficult and I would have closed sharp had I not recognized that as a method fire is rather adaptable and can be used in various methods so the calculator is one means as well as you can make a tailored version of it yet then there are extra methods there are more variations of the fire technique as well as if you are interested after that do review up on lean fire fat fire Coast fire and a few more of these in relevant articles that I'' ve Linked In the video clip'' s summary the point is and also I myself recognized a very late in life that a number of us wear'' t know when to retire how much is needed to retire which is why we continue operating in a duty or profession that we put on'' t take pleasure in much and also'that ' s where I think fire as an approach may be the option and also it'' s just 3 things appropriate raise your revenue and also financial savings reduced your expenses as well as obtain your Investments right so read even more regarding this idea in the Articles and also internet sites I'' ve included the description as well as I sincerely wish you practice some type of fire moving forward if you located this video useful then do press the like button do subscribe to my channel share this video clip as well as I'' ll see you 3 days from currently until after that international
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