I've been wondering about this myself lately.  from http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/05/29/how-much-do-i-need-for-retirement/    ..... I found this site: http://www.firecalc.com/index.php Unfortunately, I don't see that you can built a PP as the site didn't include gold historical data ...

@EdwardjK

Are you answering to me or to @murphy_p_t ? It is totally not clear.

If you are answering to me. No, I am not concerned, I just asked a simple - and hopefully interesting - question to which your answer is not really an answer ) But thanks.

You may want to discuss elderly care and such further here: http://gyroscopicinvesting.com/forum/permanent-portfolio-discussion/elderly-care-and-alternatives-idecide-org-mydirectives-com/ Back to the topic: I wonder what is your safe withdrawal rate for - You do want your nest egg to last for ever f...

http://gyroscopicinvesting.com/forum/permanent-portfolio-discussion/pp-safe-withdrawal-rate/15/ this topic got derailed so why not have the topic'sown thread? What do you think of these? http://idecide.org/ http://www.mydirectives.com/ I am not from such a developed country where you have an actual ...

Current version of the paper can be found here: https://www.credit-suisse.com/us/en/news-and-expertise/research/credit-suisse-research-institute/publications.html Some help needed reading the charts I am looking at page 38, Australia in the 2014 PDF: - Cumulative real returns from 1900 to 2013 - it ...

According to http://www.cnbc.com/id/101453072

It is live for early birds. Anyone in?

I am not a US person. I heard ShareBuilder is kind of an innovative service. Can you explain why?

Most books have a US orientation and I have heard most of them even if I obviously haven't read all. The same thing over and over. Ramit Sethi has a separate UK version of his book besides the US version. Besides him, what are some recommended books for 1. the UK 2. OK, or in general / the US as wel...

Is an ETF considered a cash dividend in this regard?

Thank you button.

craigr wrote: For me, one of the biggest mistakes an investor can make is assuming the past will repeat into the future.

Ain't it the case that history repeats itself (think wars) if we don't learn from it?

In the interest of full disclosure, I actually thought about setting up an advisory firm in the past. In the interest of full disclosure, I opened the topic/asked the question because similar thoughts have arisen in me as well. I am from Europe. I am thinking of advice for international clients. Ev...

I don't think I put Sharpe/SD in that post. I'm not a fan of Sharpe/SD as they are misleading in terms of actual risk. And mostly I don't talk much about these risk measures because they are rearward looking and sometimes project a false sense of security. Over time the common measures tend to miss...

@Libertarian666
Of course I don't need an adviser. I just had to ask it, OK?

@moda0306
Thanks, very interesting. I kinda share your experience.

Once I came across a nice article titled "How to Read a Prospectus'. Googling for the term brings out several variants with the same title.

Which one is solid advice of these articles? Really: How to Read a Prospectus?

I don't remember the Sharpe ratio being on there, but this might help: http://mebfaber.com/2013/07/31/asset-allocation-strategies-2/ I very much like this graph. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. What can be concluded of it? Comparing CARG, Sharpe and Standard Deviation, is my assumption corr...

I guess I asked the same question before but it remains unanswered so here I go again: https://web.archive.org/web/20160324133409/http://www.crawlingroad.com/blog/2008/12/22/permanent-portfolio-historical-returns/ The question: if I recall correctly, some risk measures were featured in this post, li...

My Internet searches brought this topic to my attention: 1. Gary Schatsky http://www.objectiveadvice.com/garyschatsky.html "Advice from Experts Who Only Sell Advice" He is Chair Emeritus of NAPFA (National Association of Personal Financial Advisors)- which represents fee-only financial adv...

Referring to the chart: If your savings rate is 20%, then if your investment return is 15%/year it will take you 20 years to amass enough money to retire.  At 6% return, it will take almost 40 years.  Retirement is calculated as portfolio total x investment return rate >= spending rate pre-retireme...

Unless you bought AAPL in an IPO (i.e. on a primary market), Apple doesn't see a dime of what you paid for their stock.  When most people buy stock, they are buying in the secondary market.  In the secondary market, I buy from you in hopes that the price will go up: I hope to reap some reward when ...

I received this older article from quite a few sources just nowadays: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-simple-math-behind-early-retirement/ (He is kind of too frugal for my taste; in other words: why not focus instead on offering some value to society in the form of a succes...

I received this older article from quite a few sources just nowadays: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-simple-math-behind-early-retirement/ (He is kind of too frugal for my taste; in other words: why not focus instead on offering some value to society in the form of a success...

OK. I understand why it is good for a 'real' company to buy a stock in them, such as Apple: they do research and development from my money, expand and sell more stuff. Easy. But how about a holding company? What is their benefit of me buying their stock? Let's assume here they only own stocks of oth...

To further clarify my question: if I buy BRK-A or BRK-B which is a stock made up of other stocks, how does Mr. Buffett & co profits from me buying given portfolio packaged as BRK instead of me going out picking the stocks together one by one just like they do?

Portfolio managers or investment advisers(?): The 2 main business models are: - One who receives a fixed fee, regardless if he advised you on a winning or losing investment - One who receives a performance fee, usually only when the investment is in the black How about a 3rd business model like Ber...

Let's play that you do not reveal the LTT acronym to me. How do I find what it means from Google? My searches so far resulted with no luck, including search on this very forum

Many thanks.