Life Ends Upon Retirement!

If you were in the rat race working your tails off for years or decades, you could be forgiven for not knowing what to do with yourself post-retirement.

For this reason, many well-off professionals decline to opt for early retirement, preferring instead to collect a steady paycheque, working at a steady pace.

Not everybody opts to subscribe for the concept of Financial Independence, Retire Early (also known as FI/RE). Not everybody who reads about the concept buys the idea that the promised freedoms that comes with financial independence is something that they want.

What, they ask, will you do with yourself? Even if they did opt for early retirement, the reports are that they are likely to find a way to return to work, owing to boredom from sitting around and not knowing what to do with themselves.

Suggestion

This writer's own suggestion, amongst many others, is the book Value Investing - From Graham to Buffett and Beyond (by Bruce C Greewald, Judd Kahn, and others). The book is available on Amazon USA (Kindle and Audio) and hardcopies are available from Kinokuniya Malaysia as well.

There is a hinterland, you may say, beyond a working career, in the form of value investing from the Columbia Business School that went on to give us the reknowned Warren Buffett. The textbook is a disciplined textbook that sets out in structured form, the authors' collective introductory thoughts on the discipline.

It is a modern update, republished in 2021, to the likes of other textbooks such as Security Analysis by Benjamin Graham.

Should you decide to study it, there is a chance that you may profit disproportionately from the principles that it expounds.

Considering Early Retirement?

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