Wednesdays are all about personal finance here at Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s links including a look at the benefits of investing in your relationships.
Quote of the Day
"Worrying about money when you have it is a curse. A first-world curse, to be clear, but a curse all the same."
(Michael Batnick)
Podcasts
- Claer Barrett talks with Pete Adeney, aka Mr. Money Mustache, about the FIRE life. (ft.com)
- Peter Lazaroff on why housing is consumption not investment. (peterlazaroff.com)
- Christine Benz and Jeff Ptak talk with Laura Carstensen about the interplay between longevity and how we work. (morningstar.com)
Investing
- The best thing an investor can do is stay in the game. (dariusforoux.com)
- Market timing matters a lot less than you think. (thomaskopelman.com)
- Don't overdiversify your portfolio. (tonyisola.com)
- Buying a stock is easy, selling is hard. (humbledollar.com)
Retirement
- Four reasons to keep working in retirement. (mullooly.net)
- 50 lessons learned about retirement finance over the past 10 years including 'Simple, transparent heuristics, well understood, are better than complex opaque proprietary expensive solutions.' (rivershedge.blogspot.com)
- Making the case for easing into retirement. (barrons.com)
- There are a couple of different ways to approach Social Security claiming. (obliviousinvestor.com)
Personal finance
- Why having a midlife crisis in your 20s or 30s is bad timing. (washingtonpost.com)
- How to prepare your finances in advance of resigning from your job. (wsj.com)
- How financial independence can help you pursue that startup idea. (minafi.com)
- Another rave review for Morgan Housel's book "The Psychology of Money." (humbledollar.com)