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Every Day is Saturday: April 18th, 2024

Published 19 days ago • 1 min read

Good morning, Retirement Starts Today Community. Welcome to "Every Day is Saturday," the newsletter reminding us that in retirement, every day is Saturday (including Thursday mornings).​​​


On Monday's Podcast

We discussed how Index Funds Have Officially Won. ​Listen here​​

A few points we discussed include:

  1. Cost-Effective Investing
  2. Long-term strategies
  3. The transformation of the financial advisory industry

Listener Questions

This week, Bret and I team up to answer, "My wife and I plan on retiring at age 62 and plan on using funds in our non-retirement brokerage account for the income we need before turning on social security at age 67. My question is, do I need to plan on our social security estimated benefit at age 67 coming down because we will have five years of living off savings and not contributing to social security? I thought social security estimates were project off of your current income and working to full retirement age. Love the show! Thanks for your help.” ​Listen here​​​


That's it for our three hundred and twenty-third installment of "Every Day is Saturday." As always, reply to this email with your retirement questions and you might hear them featured on the show! I read and respond to (almost) every email.

Have a great "Saturday",
- Benjamin Brandt (your humble host)

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