Episode 251: Separating Withdrawal Strategy Dogs & Tails, Yet More Leveraged Fund Fun And Poking At Some Portfolio Pessimists

In this episode we answer emails from Pete, MyContactInfo and Jenzo. We discuss leveraged funds, a paper about holding them longer term and optimal leverage, analyzing leveraged portfolios, meta-concepts of retirement portfolio planning and how to separate the critical components of a withdrawal strategy (the dogs) from various management techniques, labeling methods and mental accounting (the tails), and last year's scare paper about hyper-low safe withdrawal rates of poorly con...