When William Bengen tells me to check out a new book, I do. Bengen created the "4% rule" for retirement withdrawals decades ago, explaining how much retirees can safely spend each year without running ...

FIRE. These four letters have consumed the retirement planning discussion like, well, wildfire in recent years. They stand for financial independence, retire early — an approach that emphasizes ...

The average retirement age in the U.S. was 62 in 2023, but that number's been slowly ticking up over time. Rising life expectancies and rising costs, coupled with incomes and Social Security benefits ...

The concept of FIRE (financial independence, retire early) requires extreme saving and frugality so that participants can leave the workforce sooner than is typical. But while the increasingly popular ...

The FIRE movement has broken into several subsets, each with its own goals. All strategies require aggressive savings rates and present-day sacrifices. You don't need to follow FIRE to retire ...