He said he had $ 174K and needed $ 12k
for annual living expenses, so he was basically financially free at 26, because his $ 174K would easily compound at rates of return much higher than the $ 12K he needed to take for bills.
If we use the FIRE community - preferred method of saving 25 times annual spending and plan to withdraw 4 % a year from the portfolio, then they'd only need approximately $ 1.4 million ($ 55,000 of
annual living expenses x 25), in income - producing assets.
However, if you retire with $ 1 million at a time when the P / E10 level is high, you might be pushing it to use that portfolio to
cover annual living expenses of anything above $ 20,000.
Rather than subtracting costs from investment returns in his studies, Bengen lumps them in with
other annual living expenses — so if you use a 4 % rate to withdraw $ 30,000 and pay $ 5,000 to your adviser, you'd have just $ 25,000 left for everything else.
You've accumulated 10 - 20X +
your annual living expenses and no longer have to work!
Since
our annual living expenses will be in the range of $ 50,000 to $ 70,000 I will need plenty of years worth held in taxable accounts and initial Roth IRA contributions (which can be accessed already tax - and penalty - free) since the rollovers to Roth IRAs to the tune of $ 28,900 will be coming slower than funds flowing out.
For example, you can withdraw only income (interest or dividend income); reinvest income, dividend and capital gains, take the amount you need for
their annual living expenses and then rebalance; or purchase an annuity.
One way to normalize would be to divide by
annual living expenses (not income).