Tuesday, 27 February 2018

How Scary Is Inflation???


Financial advisers love to scare their potential clients on inflation!

So scary meh?

For younger folks; did you see your parents, grand-parents and great-grand-parents broke down due to inflation?

Honestly; Uncle8888 since started working in Aug 1977 till Sep 2016; he didn't really feel the pains of inflation hitting him hard; but the real heartache came from seeing his investment portfolio collapsing so fast! LOL!


Losses in your investment portfolio is far more scary than year on year inflation. 




2 comments:

  1. Umm ... No feeling coz salary increments are generally higher than inflation, kekeke!

    However it's a different thing over 20-30 years without an ongoing & increasing income stream, and drawing down on fixed amount of savings...

    Ehh ... If you needn't have to build in 2.5% inflation rate, you wouldn't need to accumulate the amount that you did ... You could have relaxed & shake leg much earlier! 😉

    Spur😁

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  2. Inflation is not that scary. It is hyper inflation that is scary like in Venezuela now and in pre WW2 days in Germany.

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