Not exact matches
The idea is that retirees with well -
diversified portfolios can start by withdrawing 4 percent (actually, it is closer to 4.5 percent) of their
holdings — or $ 4,500
per year for every $ 100,000 of investments — to allow themselves a cost - of - living increase every year and still be reasonably assured of not outliving their money.
Holding a globally
diversified portfolio with 40 % bonds, for example, historically reduced risk by 41.64 % while increasing returns by 0.64 %
per year over a Canadian stock - only portfolio.
To
hold a minimum eight unrelated securities to
diversify, that works out to $ 3,875.00
per holding.
Broadly
diversified in nearly 300 bonds
per fund and with expense ratios of.24 %, BulletShares are an excellent way to
hold a broad base of corporate bonds.
Mutual funds offer a good way to
diversify bond
holdings without having to invest $ 100,000 or more in individual bonds (there is a $ 5,000 minimum
per bond not counting the discount).