As far as the financial services industry and virtually all the exhaustive research is concerned,
meeting retirement needs means replacing a percentage — the most commonly cited figure is 70 % — of earnings during your working life.
Not exact matches
It also
means that most of your money can safely be in long - term, high yield stocks that will grow fast enough to
meet your long - term
needs such as saving for college and
retirement.
In
retirement that
means you can be pulling from both souces (401K and Roth) but only paying taxes on part of your «income» at that point, which can
mean you more easily
meet your income
needs, but pay lower taxes than if you had to derive all the
retirement «income «from taxable sources.