By: Anonymous
I played with the tool you linked “What’s My Crossover”. Just changing the assumed inflation by 1% has massive repercussions — it doesn’t instill much confidence for me to ever reach the cross-over...
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What I never understood about those calculations is that assets growing at 6% or 8% aren’t throwing off the same of income. FCN, I think this brings it back to our discussions about dividend investing....
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Evan: If your portfolio grows (say) 6%, it doesn’t matter if it’s b/c of capital gains or dividends. You still have 6% more money than you used to. You either spend the dividends or sell a few shares....
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By: Anonymous
FCN, I think dividend investing offers you the option of using cash (the dividend pay out) OR selling shares. "I would also argue that itâ€s invalid to assume that a stock paying (say) 5% dividends...
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According to the calculator I should retire today. I think I might wait a couple decades yet.
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“Every time a dividend is paid out, the company (in the real world, not on paper) doesn’t go down exactly by that amount,” Evan, it is supposed to. If a company pays a dividend after market...
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This is pretty awesome. I bookmarked that site, great motivation for keeping up with the investments. @Steve Ummm. If the income that you’re making solely based on investments is > expenses… Why not...
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I’m still young and a long way off from retiring…but I realize that it’s never too early to start investing. It seems that sometimes it’s just all so confusing people decide to do nothing, and then...
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@Shoeby: That’s kinda my point. What the calculator tells me differs from what I know of reality. I know what I need to live off my investments, and I don’t have enough yet. I think the calculator is...
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A few years ago I reached the point where Schedule B covers living expenses, but I’ve never taken this to mean financial independence because I know that unlike wage income which tends to be “sticky”,...
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The link only works for investments in stocks/bonds, not real estate but other than that, I think it is great. At this point my real estate in producing more income than my stock/bonds but I would love...
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