{"id":3895,"date":"2022-01-05T23:39:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T06:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernfimily.com\/?p=3895"},"modified":"2022-02-01T21:55:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T04:55:36","slug":"quarterly-net-worth-update-q4-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernfimily.com\/quarterly-net-worth-update-q4-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarterly Net Worth Update: Q4 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"
Bam! Out with the old and in with the new.\u00a0 Happy New Year everyone!\u00a0 This year I am aiming to live in contentment, be grateful for “enough”, and to try to focus on more non-financial topics.<\/p>\n
Enough of the small talk, let’s dig into the numbers to see where we are at!<\/p>\n
As noted in our recent post with\u00a0our updated FIRE goals\/numbers<\/a>, we are aiming to get to the ~$1.26M mark as our FatFIRE goal.\u00a0 When I took off on parental leave, my goal was to somehow reach this figure by the time my parental leave is up thanks to my 1\/2 year bonus for 2021 that I\u2019ll be receiving in March + compounding doing its thing + our low spend allowing us to keep our capital preserved while living off EI (pay for parental leave) + CCB (Canada Child Benefit).\u00a0 In Q3 2021 were we sitting at $1,158,505 without the mortgage so about $101,000 to go.\u00a0 Let see how we compare with our goal.<\/p>\n Our current liquid portfolio is sitting at:<\/p>\n $1,243,406<\/p>\n Excuse me, what! How the hell did that happen??<\/p>\n We do still have the mortgage in place on our home while renting out the paid off townhouse.\u00a0 We are hoping that by the time we sell the townhouse the proceeds will meet\/exceed the remaining balance on the mortgage so we can swipe that out completely and not have to dip into our investments to pay off the remainder on the mortgage.<\/p>\n It\u2019s hard to justify itching to sell the townhouse and sending the proceeds to the mortgage on our primary residence when the passive income is quite easy.\u00a0 Essentially, each year we hold on to the mortgage, we are netting ~$10,000\/year after expenses.\u00a0 Currently this is just chipping away at our current mortgage on our primary home so we don\u2019t have to deal with a mortgage payment line item in our expenses.\u00a0 We do have mortgage interest we are paying by holding on to the mortgage so really we are netting closer to $6,000\/year after accounting for interest.<\/p>\n Mortgage Balance Remaining: -$304,544<\/p>\n Net Portfolio: $938,862<\/p>\n We didn\u2019t do any tweaking to the portfolio and are sitting content with how things are looking.<\/p>\n Those silly ARK funds have gone down the shitter this whole year.\u00a0 Thankfully these make up a very small portion of our portfolio so I’m not freaking out but I’m contemplating how long to hold these for as the constant red is not pleasant to see.\u00a0 I likely will hold on for awhile as I am curious to see how it performs longer term.<\/p>\n Now that we’re into the new year, we already sent $2,500 to each kiddos RESP accounts, $6,000 to Nic’s TFSA, and we will be opening up an informal trust account for each kid and putting in either $5,000 or $10,000 for each of them as their “CoastFI” inheritance.\u00a0 (If you haven’t read Chrissy’s post on The Ultimate Guide To Informal Trusts For Canadians<\/a> – get on it!)\u00a0 That will wipe out $21,000-$31,000 of the cash on hand which will leave us with around 4-4.5 years of cash.<\/p>\n Once we FIRE, any taxable income\/dividends we receive from our taxable account we plan to withdraw, rather than drip right back into the non-registered account, with the purpose to shuffle over to our TFSA instead for some tax sheltering.\u00a0 We also will withdraw from our RRSPs first up to the federal basic amount (accounting for any dividends, rental income, earned income, etc) to shift over into our taxable accounts for tax purposes as we drain the cash wedge down to 1-2 years of cash.<\/p>\n Stocks\/Bonds\/Cash Allocation:<\/p>\n We\u2019re currently sitting at a 69\/31 USD\/CAD split.\u00a0 With the USD\/CAD exchange rate sitting at 1.26 our liquid portfolio fully converted into CAD is $1,467,831.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s see what this means when it comes time to withdraw.\u00a0 I like looking at a few different scenarios as we can cut down our spending if need-be in hard times (market tanks).\u00a0 I also like looking at what our withdrawal rate looks like with Canada Child Benefit (CCB) factored in since it is such a juicy benefit that we will be receiving for the first ~15 years. As previously mentioned, we do NOT rely on\u00a0any<\/b> external support in our FIRE figures (CCB, CPP\/SS, OAS, GIS) and view them as icing on the cake or to account for any future unexpected medical expenses we may encounter in old age.<\/p>\n\n
Withdrawal Rates<\/b><\/h2>\n