Read? Investing For Retirement - My Road map for retirement income from 2017 to 2041 Read? Investment Portfolio Management : Know enough, Know your yield, Know your risk Read?  Investing Is Not Gambing? Ben 18 January 2020 at 14:26 Smol, Investing gives one peace of mind. Simple. Ben Can investing give us peace of mind??? 1. Counting fixed income like interests is easy e.g. interests from war chest. 2. How about estimating future dividends? One way is reverting to mean value for very long period should be conservative enough. No? Taking 80% of 2019 dividends and used it as mean value for 20 years from 2021 to 2041 Hmm .. Uncle8888's lifetime of investing over 42 years from 2000 to 2041 should achieve an average yearly realized ROC from investment income of 6.7% or more. Peace of mind? 6.7% ROC should be decent if one is more risk and loss aversion type of investor....