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New Strategy: StashAway + Supplementary Retirement Scheme (SRS)
By KPO and CZM  •  January 1, 2019
One can now invest your money in the Supplementary Retirement Scheme (SRS) account with StashAway as seen here - Take your SRS funds further. If you are not familiar with SRS, I suggest reading up more first (Kyith from InvestmentMoats recently blogged about it - I Spent $1 to Open a SRS Account to Fix the Withdrawal Age). Generally, it is more beneficial for people with a higher tax bracket. The statutory retirement age is currently at 62 and one can make withdrawals over the next 10 years after the first penalty-free withdrawal where only 50% of the withdrawal amount will be subjected tax. Based on the current income tax rates, the magic number - $400,000 would not be taxable then if one were to withdraw $40,000 every year over 10 years. What's the caveat? It is a long time (34 years for us) and the policies/tax rates may change, and most importantly, would you...
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By KPO and CZM
I am Ong and my fiancee (Chan Zui Mao a.k.a CMZ) calls me a Kiam Pok (i.e. stingy/thrifty depending on how you look at it). Hence, the nickname KPO (Kiam Pok Ong). We have decided to name the blog KPO because I have proposed to CMZ successfully and she is officially a KPO too. The purpose of the blog is to list down all the money-saving tips, our investment/journey to financial freedom and to document my life with CZM.
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