The Retirement Newsletter: 10 reasons to retire next year

Issue Number: -111 — Can I think of 10 reasons why I should retire next year?

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Welcome

Welcome to issue number -111. (Yes, I am still counting down the weeks until I retire.)

This week, I will look at ten reasons why I should retire next year.

Also, I would like to welcome the new subscribers. I’m not sure what caused it, but I had quite a little flurry of new subscribers to the newsletter last week.

Thanks for joining us.

Ten reasons to retire next year

OK, so what are the ten reasons that would cause me to abandon my current plans to retire in 111 weeks?

1. My pension pot is looking pretty healthy

Over the last couple of years, my pension pot has performed very well. In fact, better than I dared hope (famous last words). It looked good; its performance meant that I could consider retiring a year or two earlier than planned. And then last week happened.

Last week we had the emergence of a new COVID-19 variant, omicron, and it made a sizeable dent in my retirement funds. The variant knocked around 10% off the value…