How to fight market volatility as retirees who are depending on their investment income?
A practical approach from unexpected lesson learnt in COVID-19 with an unplanned War Chest as one data point case study!
Read? Have you spend enough time thinking on your money management strategies? (4)
We have no control over market volatility!
We either go and fight it or slowly withdraw from it!
How to fight a War against market volatility?
Of course, we need War Chest!
How much is enough?
We have to find out ourselves! No model answer to this question!
CW,
ReplyDeleteLife after FIRE is not exactly "passive" and everything on "auto-pilot" right?
How many people after FIRE are on the beach all day chilling out?
I would like to contribute by sharing all these unplanned injections of war chest funds to maintain replacement income is not without OPPORTUNITY COSTS.
If STI would to touch 2200 again like during March 2020, you war chest would be a lot smaller...
That's why I can fully appreciate those old fogeys who have made their money OUTSIDE of CPF find the stable and consistent CPF interests (albeit low and boring) so comforting during retirement - no more corporate earned income to dilute out the investment losses!
Testosterone loss is another reason (attas language to mean baxxs shrink)
Cough, cough. I better stop. Wait people think I'm with the 1M65 gang!?
I'm a trader looking to upskill myself into a speculator; anyone know where I can get my testosterone shots?
LOL!
(Bloomberg) -- The International Monetary Fund warned of the risk of sudden and steep declines in global equity prices and home values as the Federal Reserve and other central banks withdraw the support they’ve provided during the pandemic.
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