J. Money, the personal finance blogger who runs Budgets are Sexy and RockstarFinance asked yours truly to write a guest post! Wow, what an honor! And, it turns out, this is actually my first guest post ever (not counting the “Christopher Guest Post” on the Physician on FIRE blog two months ago because that’s actually an interview). What did I write about? Initially, I proposed to go on an all-expenses-paid trip to Tahiti to review some luxury resorts and report back, uhm, some time later this year. But J$ had another brilliant idea: write about my favorite finance pet peeves. And it got published today:
My Top 7 Disagreements With Personal Finance Experts
Of course, to read it all, you’ll have to head over to Budgets are Sexy. But please see below for supplemental material, i.e., some of our blog posts on the seven topics:
- Safe Withdrawal Rate:
- The Ultimate Guide to Safe Withdrawal Rates – Part 1: Introduction (plus follow-up posts, part 2, part 3, going to part 4 already!)
- Robo-Advisers:
- Emergency Funds:
- Bonds to diversify equity risk:
- Bond vs. Stock Risk:
- Cash as bear market insurance:
- Tax loss harvesting: