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There are really two parts to structuring your claims to your social pension portfolio.  Since you have multiple pensions you have the option of claiming one relatively early if you need the cash.  In general, health prevailing, you should defer them until 70 and take the deferral cash coupon.  Multiple

In this episode, we are going to take a break from the construction, and features, of a portfolio of social pensions, and talk specifically about the unique tax and value convexity of having a portfolio of regular payments in different currencies in retirement, in combination with other assets of course.

In this episode, we are going to start to analyse portfolio construction across a set of social pensions held by our happy frolickers.  The key concepts that make portfolio construction of social pensions different from portfolio construction of vanilla financial assets are asymmetry and convexity.  Let's dig in... Asymmetric features

In this episode, we are going to dig right into the individual costs of my exemplar portfolio of social pensions.  We are then going to round that off with some general perspectives before, in the next episode, we look at constructing a portfolio explicitly to take advantage of financial payoff

For those of you who have made it this far, we are about to go on a fairly wild journey of global baldashery and regulatory arbitrage.  It has been quite a frolic... Soon, you are going to learn just how cost-effective and fully featured a portfolio concept in social pensions

Do you remember when i told you all to remember that frolicking wildly can only help your retirement?  Canny readers may have picked up on my participation as a beneficiary in several social pension schemes.  Well, it is time to reveal the Oracle. The very Special Social Pension of the

In this episode, we are going to discuss the general features of private self-provided pensions and the assorted chicaneries that surround the marketing of them, as well as their natural substitutes - social pensions.  We are going to deal with employer-provided pensions separately later.  As we go i am going