The Benefits of Having a Simple Financial Calculator

2min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

Simple spreadsheets are a better planning tool than some of these fancy things. It allows you to see better where your levers are, either reducing expenses or increasing income. And then knowing that, you can see how you can convert one thing into another category and vice-versa.

In this episode we answer emails from Wesley, Mark and a different Mark. And an errant comment from his Dude-ness, Alexi. We discuss how municipal bond funds might be used in risk-parity style portfolios and how not, a couple of interesting newer financial planning calculators and the planning process I actually use instead to account for liquidity issues, asset allocations in accumulation when options are limited and the ins and outs of preferred shares funds like PFF. And then we goof off. Again.

Links:

Correlation Matrix with Municipal Bond Fund: Asset Correlations (portfoliovisualizer.com)

ETF Research Center Financial Tool: ETF Research Center (etfrc.com)

Projection Labs Financial Tool: ProjectionLab - Simulate your financial future and plan for financial independence.

Support the show