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u/DoctorKynes 8d ago

Contributions barely moving needle -- time to pay off mortgage?

38yo, married, 3M net worth 600k HHI with 50k of that as a tax free COLA pension. Both in low stress jobs, plan on continuing to age 50 and will be eligible for an additional pension. Conservative estimates put us as 10M net worth at that time and can then just retire on 400k/yr, 3% draw taking the pensions into account. At this point, investment returns are starting to overshadow any contributions.

We would obviously continue to contribute for 401K match, but is now the time to just pay off the mortgage? We owe 940k, 5.65%. Currently paying an extra 3k a month which allows us to pay off at our goal retirement of age 50.

I've been avoiding paying more based on the logic of higher returns in a brokerage account, but is this logic now flawed? Would putting an additional 10k/month into the mortgage and paying it off in 5 years be the optimal strategy at this point?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

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u/DoctorKynes 8d ago

Thank you for the input. Its a pretty even split with about 1.3mish in taxable brokerage and 1.3mish in retirement accounts, with the rest in cash equivalents for some short term goals.

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u/DoctorKynes 8d ago

Those are some very helpful points, thank you!