Earning income in retirement

Your Free Playbook to Retirement Income Planning

Posted on July 23, 2026 by Mark | 23 Comments

Your Free Playbook to Retirement Income Planning There’s a lot to think about when it comes to achieving your retirement goals. I know. I think about it a lot. I write about it a lot. And as of spring 2026, well,…

Weekend Reading – Generating Your Retirement Income

Posted on May 2, 2026 by Mark | 40 Comments

Weekend Reading – Generating Your Retirement Income How are you going to generate your retirement income? Today’s post will share some of my brief thoughts on that as a newly minted retiree myself as part of a new pillar post…

Weekend Reading – Do you need bonds in retirement?

Posted on February 14, 2026 by Mark | 79 Comments

Weekend Reading – Do you need bonds in retirement? Well hello! Welcome to some updated Weekend Reading about this subject: do you need bonds in retirement? (Thanks again to my readers and their email questions related to this subject.) Weekend…

Weekend Reading – Creating Your Retirement Paycheque

Posted on July 18, 2025 by Mark | 10 Comments

Weekend Reading – Creating Your Retirement Paycheque Hello! Welcome to a new Weekend Reading edition about creating your retirement income paycheque. I’m developing mine in real-time! In case you missed my most recent post, here was our June 2025 dividend…

Investing for Income vs. Total Return, why choose?

Posted on June 7, 2025 by Mark | 20 Comments

Investing for Income vs. Total Return, why choose? Welcome to a new Weekend Reading edition, on an important but seemingly never-ending debate: should you be investing for income or total return? Maybe in the end, why choose one over the…

Portfolio Updates for 2025

Posted on January 16, 2025 by Mark | 35 Comments

Portfolio Updates for 2025 Welcome to a new post, following up and sharing some of the progress we made in 2024 as we enter this new year to simplify our portfolio: welcome to some portfolio updates for 2025. How was…

How your part-time job can support your retirement

Posted on June 10, 2024 by Mark | 12 Comments

How your part-time job can support your retirement You probably know from my site, including the last few years, I love sharing case studies. Part of the reason I enjoy doing so is because of positive reader feedback. Another reason:…

Our bucket approach to earning income in retirement

Posted on April 3, 2017 by Mark | 49 Comments

Our bucket approach to earning income in retirement Asset accumulation seems easy but what about asset decumulation? The solution might be: you might want to consider a bucket approach to earning income in retirement. One of my favourite books about…

The Essential Retirement Guide – Review and Giveaway

Posted on March 15, 2016 by Mark | 37 Comments

“In a time when we are constantly being told that we are living so much longer than we used to, it may be hard to believe that the average person has little better than a 50-50 chance of making it…