Not exact matches
Retirement Mistake # 2: People Underestimate their Life Expectancy /
Longevity It is not adequate to assume that you only need enough
retirement assets to sustain your lifestyle through the age
of 75, 85 or even older.
With 10,000 baby boomers reaching the age
of 65 every day and living longer, it may be worth taking a closer look to ensure your
retirement assets will fund your
longevity.
But if you're confident that you can handle your spending needs with Social Security and draws from your
retirement accounts but you want some extra assurance that you'll have sufficient income later in life — or you feel that income guaranteed to kick in in the future will give you more flexibility about your spending early 0n — then devoting a small portion
of your
assets to a
longevity annuity is probably the better way to go.
With 10,000 baby boomers reaching the age
of 65 every day and living longer, it may be worth taking a closer look to ensure your
retirement assets will fund your
longevity.
We followed the method proposed by Milevsky (2006) to estimate the present value cost
of funding a
retirement income given randomness for both
asset returns and
longevity.
The cost
of retirement, also known as the stochastic (or random) present value
of retirement, was the actual cost
of paying for a given income in
retirement when the unknown variables
of longevity and
asset returns were allowed to occur by chance.