When dealing with portfolios, 10 years is
a decent time horizon, but thirty years even better!
Five years is
a decent time horizon to make a decision for the switch.
Not exact matches
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By running several scenarios with different withdrawal rates and
time horizons, you should be able to come away with a
decent sense of how much spending your nest egg can reasonably support over your lifetime.
In the above chart, notice that even if you have invested at the peak of 2008 and had remained invested for 8 — 10 years
time horizon, you would have received
decent returns from the market.
But if your
time horizon is more than five years, you should have
time to ride out any market dips and earn
decent long - run gains.
This is especially true because you can mostly eliminate price risk by
timing (unless you buy a lot of stocks in 1999, 2007, etc. you will dollar cost average into a
decent enough stock price) and most macroeconomic risks dissipate over a long enough
time horizon.