Long term, I need exposure to equities to insure
my portfolio keeps up with inflation and can fund my wife and I if we live to 95.
Not exact matches
Researchers tested a blizzard of potential «drawdown strategies» — that is, hypothetical rates of spending in retirement, mapped against investment returns on people's savings — to analyze which had the best chance to
keep up with inflation and sustain a
portfolio through a long retirement.
If your
portfolio merely
kept up with inflation over time, you would run out of money after 25 years.
A
portfolio solely allocated to fixed income may not grow enough to
keep up with the pace of
inflation.
Assuming a
portfolio with little growth, you reinvest about 3 / 4ths of the income stream to
keep up with inflation.
I also think hyper
inflation could destroy most annuities value while diversified
portfolios can generally
keep up with any
inflation rate.
Much of what you write is good; however, you claim to help Canadians «prosper» while your sleepy
portfolio has hardly
kept up with inflation.
And then in the 1970s and»80s, as interest rates shot
up, it wreaked havoc on the
portfolios of many sophisticated institutional investors like pension plans and insurance companies who were extremely exposed in their allocations towards bonds, which did not
keep up with the rising rates of
inflation in the»70s and»80s.
Use the 4 percent rule as a standard rate that allows for generous withdrawals, preserves your
portfolio and
keeps up with changes in
inflation.