Wednesday is all about personal finance here at Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s links including a look at how damaging the support of adult children can do to your retirement.
Mortgages
- The yield curve is mostly inverted: what should you do with your mortgage? (financialsamurai.com)
- Nobody ever regrets paying off their mortgage early. (businessinsider.com)
Home ownership
- The math around home ownership gets more complicated when companies are willing to "share the risk" of homeownership with you. (thebasispoint.com)
- There's no such thing as a dream home. (hmmdaily.com)
Retirement
- How to manage your retirement spending if you choose to defer Social Security until you are 70. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
- Wes really liked "Your Complete Guide to a Successful and Secure Retirement" by Larry Swedroe and Kevin Grogan. (alphaarchitect.com)
- What can we learn about retirement from people in the 'Blue Zones'? (nextavenue.org)
- Making the case for an 'encore career.' (humbledollar.com)
Financial education
- Why the financial media uses cringeworthy stories to generate interest in personal finance. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
- NFL player Brandon Copeland knows more about money than you do. (businessinsider.com)
- Money lessons from the late John Bogle. (thesimpledollar.com)
Contentment
- Happiness comes from being content with what you have. (humbledollar.com)
- What's the next dollar worth to you and what will have to do to get it? (qz.com)
- What does it really mean to live 'paycheck to paycheck'? (humbledollar.com)
Personal finance
- You are not maximizing your relationship with your financial advisor. (ibj.com)
- Are pre-retirees taking too much market risk? (morningstar.com)
- On the difference between good debt and bad debt. (thesimpledollar.com)
- Six legit reasons to tap your emergency fund. (morningstar.com)
- For high earners there is a right way and a wrong way to max out your 401(k) plan each year. (castlebaram.com)
- Why switching banks is such a hassle. (thesimpledollar.com)
- DIY wills only take you so far. (nextavenue.org)
