{"id":5645,"date":"2015-01-05T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=5645"},"modified":"2023-05-26T12:45:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T16:45:43","slug":"the-15-numbers-every-investor-needs-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2015\/01\/05\/the-15-numbers-every-investor-needs-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"The 15 Numbers Every Investor Needs to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Wall Street Journal<\/h3>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/profiles.bu.edu\/Thomas.Perls\">Thomas Perls<\/a>, MD, geriatrics<\/h4>\n<p>In a world full of numbers, it is easy to lose sight of which ones are most important to your personal finances.\u00a0Just as a doctor checks your vital signs, certain figures are key indicators of your current and future financial well-being.\u00a0Here are 15 numbers that everyone should know:<\/p>\n<h3>Expert:<\/h3>\n<p>How long you are likely to live can affect a host of decisions, such as how to invest your retirement nest egg and how much you can safely withdraw each year.<\/p>\n<p>There are online calculators that take into account family medical history and personal habits, among other factors; Mr. Baumbach, the Delaware adviser, suggests the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livingto100.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"icon none\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Living to 100<\/a>\u00a0calculator from Thomas Perls, a doctor who heads the New England Centenarian Study at Boston University School of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-15-numbers-every-investor-needs-to-know-1420214041\">full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wall Street Journal Thomas Perls, MD, geriatrics In a world full of numbers, it is easy to lose sight of which ones are most important to your personal finances.\u00a0Just as a doctor checks your vital signs, certain figures are key indicators of your current and future financial well-being.\u00a0Here are 15 numbers that everyone should know: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[126],"tags":[130],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113693,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645\/revisions\/113693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}