Random Financial Thoughts

Since I am now in the mid-life crises years, I have started thinking about those things more. Some people get crap luck, but a lot can also be achieved by making a few small changes in habits.

The work thing seems a little harder. I have days where long hours hit and I think about it more, but you can’t do anything about it at that point. The real decision is more of a proactive career choice - take on the roles you will enjoy and don’t try to force your way in to the next promotion. As long as you don’t box yourself in with financial obligations like being house poor, you have options.

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I think you can get really good outcomes by just taking care of the little things

Go to bed early and get good sleep, brush your teeth and floss daily, eat well, log off at 5pm sharp, invest in low cost index funds

I wouldn’t stress too much about the things out of your control

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I’d add to that: a 30 minute walk outside each day can provide incredible benefits to your physical and mental health.

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Agree. It also helps my dog’s physical and mental health. I try to walk at least an hour a day, but schedule/weather sometimes don’t cooperate. I’d guess I get 5 days a week in.

Completely agree on particularly the mental benefits of a 30m walk outside.

The random financial thought with that is those things all lead back to better financial health.

You feel better, you think better, you can be more productive, you have more energy, you lose some weight that slows everything down.

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Robinhood is offering a 1% bonus for any money added to brokerage. It’s paid out over 24mo and you have to have RH Gold for $50/yr.

I don’t know how they treat it if you make a withdrawal, hopefully it’s FIFO but I haven’t seen the fine print yet.

Gotta stay 2 years. Not sure about the Robinhood gold requirement for 1% bonus though

As long as your account balance is higher than the balance you transferred in, when you make any transfers out; you get to keep the money after 2 years. Pretty relaxed and easy

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Instructions unclear, bet everything on deep out of the money SPY options expiring tomorrow.

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If modeling prospective returns for your savings, what is sane investment retrin to use?

Holy shit Robinhood giving you 1% for every dollar deposited now for gold members

Idk what their plan is but it looks like they have cash to burn

(Sorry mathman I thought you just meant any brokerage accounts rolled into RH)

Add a ton of market share, get the stock price way up, profit. Not actual profits in the EBITDA sense, just a PE ratio that’s near infinite is all you need these days.

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Maybe consider longevity insurance. It’s a deferred payout annuity. The idea is that you buy it now and it starts paying out when you turn, say, 80. If you die before you turn 80 you get nothing.

BUT… if it plus Social Security is enough to live on it means your assets only have to last you until you turn 80, which reduces your uncertainty by a lot.

It should theoretically be cheaper than fully annuitizing but provide similar insurance against the risk of outliving your assets.

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Thanks

Thanks Twig. I agree with you.

My personal issue with longevity insurance is that it won’t be priced based on factors that affect the coverage.

For life insurance, I would pay more for factors like poor health, history of heart disease, my skydiving and swimming-with-sharks hobbies, and being male.

For longevity insurance, I am priced as if I am a marathon running, teetotalling female whose great grandparents are still alive.

I think deferring my SS to age 70 might be the correct longevity insurance that fits best.

True story: Identifying the ages at death of the cohort consisting of my 2 parents and 4 grandparents gives me a mean age at death of about 75 and a Standard deviation of about 12.5.

Has that been on-leveled though?!

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I don’t know if that is in jest. I know nothing of any idea about on-leveling death dates.

Are you implying that, for example, those that died of cancer (3 of them) would live longer with cancer in the current state of medicine as opposed to dying sooner decades ago?

Schwab Charitable has announced they are changing their name to DAFgiving360. That sounds like a stupid rebrand.

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Presumably for Donor Advised Fund, but still not much merit to changing the name.

My head changes it to that.

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Only on Fridays though

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