{"id":612888,"date":"2026-09-03T04:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T04:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/612888\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T04:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T04:32:08","slug":"retirement-finance-threats-and-5-ways-to-protect-your-fire-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/612888\/","title":{"rendered":"Retirement finance threats and 5 ways to protect your FIRE strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sep 3, 2026 \u2013 5.00am<\/p>\n<p>When investment markets experienced a wobble in February, the last thing early retiree Kathleen McDowell, 57, and her husband, who retired in December last year aged 59, wanted to do was sell any of their investments.<\/p>\n<p>McDowell, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/wealth\/personal-finance\/my-path-to-financial-freedom-as-a-30-year-old-with-370-000-20250815-p5mn6v\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">retired at 55<\/a>, says the couple had prepared for such a market downturn by keeping enough money to cover 2\u00bd years of living expenses \u2013 about $350,000 \u2013 quarantined in cash and out of reach of market volatility.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sep 3, 2026 \u2013 5.00am When investment markets experienced a wobble in February, the last thing early retiree&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[72,176,61,60,174,175],"class_list":["post-612888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}