Short Posts Index

Stock Buybacks; Comfortable with $300K; Reasonably Safe, Not Safe; 6% and Safety; Turning Points G; For Today’s Accumulators; Invest Early; Risk; Idiot Switching in a P/E10=14 Bear Market; Was It Or Wasn’t It?; The Safe Withdrawal Rate Solution; Statistical Lessons Learned. [more to follow]
Short Posts starting from November 16, 2008

5% the Hard Way; 5.5% with Corporate Bonds?; Back of the Envelope 6%; Matching 3% TIPS; Reacting to Price Drops during DCA: 50%; Reacting to Price Drops: Middle Years; Locking In Failure; Today’s Safe Withdrawal Rates; Dividend Strategies versus Valuation Informed Indexing; Now that P/E10=23; Why Use P/E10?; With P/E10 Close to 20; Failure Mechanism; Year 30 Balance; S&P500 Dividend Design Baseline; Something Simple; Practicing for Retirement; Price Drops When P/E10=20; Switching Graphs; HSWR50T2 Graph; HSWR80T2 Graph; The Extrapolation Issue.
Short Posts starting from May 8, 2008

Easing into 5%; Seeking 5%; Waiting for the Big Drop; Reaching for 5%; The Rule of 20-20; I am 40 and Worried; Fatally Flawed; Inflation Sensitivity Study; Sometimes Dividends Get Cut; Research Highlights; Delayed Purchase Withdrawals; Dividend Quality; The Dividend Advantage; Dividend Growth or Dividend Yield; Just Suppose; Risk Tolerance; Diversification.
Short Posts starting from December 10, 2007

Is $200000 Enough?, Risk Leads to Bankruptcy, The Great Mistake, Dividend Growth Story, Free Lunches for Everyone, Valuations During Accumulation; Lessons from the Scenario Surfer; Not Total Return; The Next Thirty Years; The Next Thirty Years Addendum; Share Buybacks; Elements of Skill; Threshold Distortion
Short Posts starting from August 27, 2007

Building on Success, Expanded Allocator Insights D, Taken At Face Value: Upside, Automatic Rebalancing Examples, Price Drops, Price Peaks, Subtle Observation about Dividend Capture, Rock Bottom Withdrawal Rate, Back of the Envelope: Dividend Blend, Dividend Blend Rule of Thumb, Data Mining Bias, Doctor’s Visit, Saving For Retirement, Avoiding Disaster, Shun Rebalancing.
Short Posts starting from April 19, 2007

Simple Path to 5%, Why It Works, Flaws in the Traditional Theory, Dividend Baseline: Expanded, Fluctuating Dividends, Fluctuating Dividends with a Growth Kicker, Income Stream Insights, TIPS Table, Everyone CAN Be Above Average!, The Cost of Capital Appreciation, Gentle Failure Mechanisms, What Do I Really Think About Long-Term Timing?, Expanded Allocator, Using Weighted Averages, Expanded Allocator Insights A, Expanded Allocator Insights C.
Short Posts starting from February 26, 2007

Maintenance Stage Survey, Edited: Returns, Not Equity Premiums, Elements of Success, Edited: Time Needed to Assure a Gain, Time Needed Applications, Augmented Dividends Strategy, Guaranteed Augmented Dividends, Dividends and the Gordon Model, Retiree Needs, S&P500 Dividend Growth, Income Stream Allocator Examples, Dividend Based S&P500 Allocation, Botched Early Retirement, Botched Early Retirement Special Example A-1, Dividend Baseline, Capturing the Investment Return.
Short Posts Starting from December 7, 2006

Retirement Trainers and Accumulation, The Wrong Lessons, The Next Recession, I Saw My Doctor Today, Capitalization Weighted Stock-Bond Allocations, Explosive Earnings Growth, Capitalization Weighting of What?, Mindless Comparisons to Index Funds, New Standards for Financial Reporting, System Engineering, Today’s Skill, One Time Bets, Sideways Market Sound Bite.
Short Posts Starting from September 18, 2006

Special Note about Mean Reversion, No New Discovery This Time, Looking a Little Bit Harder, Time and the Gordon Model, Edited: Orders of Magnitude, Using Stock Return Predictions, Eye Opening Calculations with Compact CVTVR L, New Standards for Financial Reporting, Tobin q Errors, Turning Points, A Helpful Theorem, Why Dividends Are Better, Dividends versus Capital Appreciation, Edited: E10 or D10?, Type 2A Bull Bear Retirement Trainer, Retirement Planning Insights.
Short Posts Starting June 27, 2006

New Search Feature, SWR Success, Extracting Information, What Do I Really Think About Dividends?, Allocate 25%, What If There Is A Bubble?, Volatility and Your Timeframe, Dividend Growth Sensitivity Study, Three Powerful Advantages of Dividend Strategies, May 2006 Highlights, Investment Traps, Why People Ignore Valuations, Edited: Idiot Switching, Typical Values of P/E10
February 6, 2006 Short Posts

None Dare Call it Skill, Adding a Dividend-Only Extension, Monthly Returns, Monthly Returns, Historical Perspective, Historical Perspective: Dividends and Earnings, Dividend-Based Design Outline, Lessons from the Dow Jones Utilities, Individuals Pick Winners, Risky Alternatives, DCA Today: The Point of Frustration, Diminishing Returns, Dividends and Constant Terminal Value Rates.
September 27, 2005 Short Posts

I Don’t Want to Wait, Prices Matter, More Than a Number, How to Exploit Skill, Always Insist on a Baseline, A Bright Future, Applying P/E10 Outside of the S&P500, Nobody Tries to Beat the Market, Many Different Objectives, Data Based Safe Withdrawal Rates, An Illusion of Numbers, Demographics and Dividends, May 2005 Highlights, Growth-Value Switching, A Negative Risk Premium Makes Sense.
Pre-September 27, 2005 Short Posts