General Topics Index
Rock Bottom Withdrawal Rate, Back of the Envelope: Dividend Blend, Dividend Blend Rule of Thumb, Predicting the Markets of Tomorrow, Data Mining Bias, Doctor’s Visit, Saving For Retirement, Avoiding Disaster, Shun Rebalancing, Is $200000 Enough?, Annuities and TIPS, Risk Leads to Bankruptcy, Dividend Growth and Bond Ladders, The Great Mistake, Dividend Growth Rule of Thumb, Dividend Growth Story.
General Topics starting from June 2, 2007
Expanded Allocator Insights B, Expanded Allocator Insights C, Building on Success, Expanded Allocator Insights D, Expanded Allocator Insights E, Today’s Alternatives, Taken At Face Value: Upside, May 2007 Highlights, Automatic Rebalancing Examples, Early Retirement with a Delayed Pension, Price Drops, Price Peaks, Subtle Observation about Dividend Capture, Building On a 45-Year Retirement, Starting at 5%, Starting at 5% with Risk.
General Topics starting from April 17, 2007
A Special Kind of Investment, Dividend Baseline: Expanded, Fluctuating Dividends, Fluctuating Dividends with a Growth Kicker, Income Stream Insights, A Special Kind of Investment Sensitivity Study, A Special Kind of Investment Addendum, Diversifying Risk, TIPS Table, Everyone CAN Be Above Average!, Taken At Face Value, The Cost of Capital Appreciation, Gentle Failure Mechanisms, What I Really Think About Long-Term Timing?, Expanded Allocator, Using Weighted Averages, Valuations and Income Streams, Expanded Allocator Insights A.
General Topics starting from March 3, 2007
Dividends and the Gordon Model, Retiree Needs, Understanding R-Squared, Disturbing Numbers, Disturbing Numbers Follow On, S&P500 Dividend Growth, Using the TIPS Income Stream Allocator B, Income Stream Allocator Examples, Dividend Based S&P500 Allocation, More Income Stream Allocator Examples, Many Alternatives, Botched Early Retirement, Botched Early Retirement Special Example A-1, Dividend Baseline, Dividend Growth versus Liquidation, Capturing the Investment Return, Initial Yield versus Dividend Growth, Simple Path to 5%, Why It Works, Flaws in the Traditional Theory.
General Topics starting from January 17, 2007
Slowly Rising Earnings, Guessing the Future, Sideways Market Sound Bite, Maintenance Stage Survey, Returns, Not Equity Premiums, Elements of Success, Time Needed to Assure a Gain, Time Needed Applications, The 4% Shocker, Dividend Growth Baselines, Dividend Growth Rates, Subdued Dividend Growth, Augmented Dividends Strategy, Guaranteed Augmented Dividends, The Delayed Purchase Concept.
General Topics starting from December 2, 2006
Retirement Trainers and Accumulation, Learning the RIGHT Lessons, The Wrong Lessons, Denial Is Expensive, Dollar Cost Averaging at Year 15, The Next Recession, I Saw My Doctor Today, Capitalization Weighted Stock-Bond Allocations, Explosive Earnings Growth, Capitalization Weighting of What?, Mindless Comparisons to Index Funds, New Standards for Financial Reporting, System Engineering, Today’s Skill, Short Term Price Fluctuations, Basic Estimates and Refinements, One Time Bets, Dividend Growth to the Rescue.
General Topics starting from September 18, 2006
Special Note about Mean Reversion, Time and the Gordon Model, Orders of Magnitude, Using Stock Return Predictions, Eye Opening Calculations with Compact CVTVR L, New Standards for Financial Reporting, Designing a 45-Year Retirement, P/E10 Predictions, Bulls, Bears and P/E10 Predictions, P/E10 Predictions Revisited, Playing with the Toy, More Fun with the Toy, Great Fun with the Improved Retirement Trainer, Accumulation and the Retirement Trainer, Why Dividends Are Better, Dividends versus Capital Appreciation, E10 or D10?, More PE10 Predictions.
General Topics starting from June 27, 2006
Using P/E10, Historical Perspective: Dividends and Earnings, The Story Behind the Numbers, Individuals Pick Winners, Dollar Cost Averaging Today, Year 10 Choices, What Do I Really Think About Dividends?, Allocate 25%, Investment Traps, Early Success with Latch and Hold, Continued Success with Latch and Hold, Adding Constraints to Latch and Hold, The Lower Latch and Hold Threshold, Additional Constraints with Latch and Hold, Idiot Switching, Typical Values of P/E10.
General Topics (starting from January 16, 2006)
Withdrawal Rates at Favorable Valuations, Ridiculous Pessimism, Addendum to Ridiculous Pessimism, Gradually Increasing Bond Allocations: HSWR, Gradually Increasing Bond Allocations: Returns, Gradually Increasing Bond Allocations: Returns Addendum, Asset Weighted Mutual Funds, S&P500 Returns Update, Refusing to See the Obvious, Refusing to See: Dividends, Years to Double, Historical Perspective.
General Topics (starting from September 20, 2005)
The Best Allocations versus Time, Numbers for Transition Planning, High Risk at 4%? at 5%?, Calculated Rates of the Last Decade, TIPS versus Dividends, Faster and Easier SWR Calculations, Post Script to Faster and Easier SWR Calculations, Faster and Easier SWR Calculations: Excursion, Safe Withdrawal Rates with Switching, Safe Withdrawal Rates with Switching Data, Portfolio Lifetimes with Switching, SWR Costs, Historical Context, Design Calculations, Equations for Design, S&P500 Returns, Speculative Return, Should You Buy an Annuity?
General Topics prior to September 20, 2005