Should one look only at income received immediately after retirement; average (real) income over the retirement period; (real) income at
the end of the retirement period; or something else?
Not exact matches
Not only did the 4.5 percent rule survive every one
of those
retirement periods, but more than 95 percent
of the time, the retirees
ended with the same amount
of money they had started with.
We also computed the portfolio balance (in real dollars) at the
end of the 35 - year
retirement period for successful scenarios.
While it's true that you may
end up collecting benefits for the longest
period of time by starting at age 62, if you can afford to do so, it's generally best to wait at least until your full
retirement age (FRA).
They run 10,000 Monte Carlo simulations for each
of many initial withdrawal rate scenarios, with probability
of success defined as the percentage
of runs not exhausting the portfolio before the
end of a specified
retirement period.
In addition to allaying the concerns regarding the disadvantages
of term insurance, an ROP policy can also provide the advantage
of supplementing
retirement benefits to the policy owner / insured at the
end of the term
period.
Ending your
retirement with one dollar is a «success» by this measure, but we all recognize it would be wise to have some safety margin both in terms
of the rate
of success and the value
of your portfolio at the
end of any given
period.
The table below shows the start dates for the worst 10, 20, and 30 year
periods for 10
of our IFA Index Portfolios as well as the maximum withdrawals rates that left investors with the same amount
of principal at
retirement and at the
end of their life.
The core
of Bengen's findings was that no matter what day you retired on during the studied timeframe
of 75 years (starting in 1926), if you withdrew 4 %
of the starting balance at the beginning
of a 30 - year
retirement with a 50 % stocks and a 50 % bond portfolio, you would not run out
of money before the
end of the
period.
And that's why we put the tax refund into savings accounts instead
of locked up in a
retirement account — the tax refund is earmarked to pay off the credit card balance right before the 15 month promo
period ends.
Also, while you mention that typically being able to do a Roth Conversion is advantageous in
retirement or
periods of low income, your reccomendations are very skewed to the Roth
end of the spectrum vs. traditional buckets like IRA, 401 (k).
In his Lordship's judgment the tribunal did not fall into error in concluding that the livelihood condition had to be satisfied in respect
of the
period ending with the
retirement notice, and that once established, that qualification could not be lost.
So, instead
of viewing
retirement as an
end - point in itself, law firms and their senior partners will be far better served by treating
retirement as a series
of developmental steps taken by individuals over an extended
period of time.