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Brad has made some updates to Steven Brown’s Retirement Forecaster Excel spreadsheet tool (version 2.7.3).
The changes he’s made are improved accuracy with the calculations for CPP Survivor Benefits and CPP Death Benefit.
See Brad’s member page here for more..
I have now written a brief piece on possible ways to mitigate the risk of sequence of returns.
Some of the approaches are not intuitive!
More here.
Sequence (of returns) risk is something I mentioned in my recent piece about my upcoming third quarter portfolio review. Sequence risk is a major factor in my planning as our household heads into retirement in the near future.
Looking at the current valuation of the S&P 500 vs. underlying gross national product is a bit sobering.
September brings my next quarterly portfolio review and my next, self-imposed, securities trading window (I only trade four times a year). I have been giving a fair bit of thought this summer to what’s next for our portfolio.
Here’s a preview of my thinking….
I’ve published my second quarter of 2018 portfolio review. In it I discuss my current take on managing our household portfolio, some of the trades I’ve recently made and my thoughts for the rest of the year.
See my review here.
Brad updated Steven Brown’s Retirement Forecaster Excel spreadsheet tool (version 2.7.2). The changes are as follows:
Version 2.7.2 provides support for defined benefit (DB) pension plans with a Bridge Benefit (such as the Fed Government or Ontario Teachers) and the accompanying DB Survivor pension. Detailed input instructions are provided on the Instructions sheet, under the Instructions section.
You may access the material on Brad’s page here.
See Brad and Peter’s deck on financial independence / retire early (FIRE) presented at the May 8, 2018 Ottawa Share Club meeting is available here.
I’ve completed my first quarter portfolio review.
Quite a difference from last year so far. Our household portfolio is flat so far this year. That’s a bit better than some of the major indexes, but not all.
I have a link in my review to some evidence that markets in the US might be soft until the mid-terms, and then could rebound a lot. So hopefully things will improve as the year progresses.
Find out more here.
Visit my OSC member page to obtain a PDF copy of my deck presented January 9, 2017 at the OSC meeting. It features the second annual review of the Ottawa Share Club fantasy and income portfolios.
Topics include:
My latest version of our household investment plan is now published (as of December 31, 2017).
As I describe it: “For the first time, this investment plan update includes refining our objectives based on explicitly creating portfolio “buckets” that will guide our target asset allocations and serve to fund our retirement.”
It is not a radical change from previous plans. My rationale for choosing asset allocation targets is evolving though.
This plan and previous versions are all available here.