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Living off investments in your sixties Welcome to the typical retirement decade where it’s time to ensure a successful financial legacy by living off investments strategically. Governments and businesses across the world consider your sixty somethings the age in which you become eligible for various benefits, such as Social Security, Medicare, penalty free 401k and other retirement account access, pensions, annuities, etc. You’ll want to ensure you’re not a burden on your children by being financially independent and setup with well diversified assets that can produce enough income to support the retirement lifestyle of travel, hobbies, and spoiling grandchildren. Your elders have advice in how to navigate retirement benefits, sequence of returns, and reduce risk of losing net worth at a time that would be difficult to make up. There’s still something to learn from your elderly parents regarding living off investments.

Living off Investments in your Sixty Somethings

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Compare YOUR Cost of Living vs the Average American

By Kylven Ross

Discover Runaway Expenses by comparing your cost of living to the average American. I’m walking through an exercise using data from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics with my daughter. We are going to compare our family’s expenses versus the averages from the Consumer Expenditure Survey. Go through the steps yourself and find areas of opportunity to cut costs or even reveal a philosophical vulnerability, as I did.

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What Investments go in Which Account for Tax Avoidance?

By Kylven Ross

You may be losing money by simply not understanding which accounts are the best place to hold your investments for tax avoidance. If you have holdings outside of a retirement account, you’ll want to know these tax efficient investing strategies. Let's walk through a 10 step process to rebalance and stop paying Uncle Sam more than his fair share.

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Financial Independence and Retirement Calculators are near Useless

By Kylven Ross

Forget the online Financial Independence calculators used to predict early retirement and investment returns. I’m sorry, but you need to create a customized plan to FI or hire a professional to do so. Don’t be discouraged and give up based on results of these tools and think, “I'll never retire, if I need a bajillion dollars to do so.” Let’s see how a typical american family can retire earlier than anticipated.

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Discover theFIway and Achieve Financial Independence

By Kylven Ross

I want to share with you a life changing discovery that eluded me for decades. You can actually achieve financial independence rather simply with enough knowledge. Most parents don’t realize it or fail to pass along the methods to the next generation. Let’s fix that!

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