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Ruminations on Investments, Retirement and Anxiety

Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies, On one hand, I’m a capitalist investor. I study market cycles, track returns, think about diversification, and invest, quite deliberately, in the stock market. I do this to build retirement capital. To sleep at night. To avoid becoming a financial burden on my boys before we stepContinue reading “Ruminations on Investments, Retirement and Anxiety”

Ruminations on financial advisors

Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies As you know, I’m 64 and, surprisingly, Nerine still feeds me, though it’s debatable whether she still needs me. Next year, I hit my “sell-by” date, and formal full-time employment ends. Retirement looms. Polite people don’t talk about money. Ask how their investments are managed or howContinue reading “Ruminations on financial advisors”