Not exact matches
The person who has spent the past 30 or 40 years carefully building his / her slow and steady
pension pot will have a good sense of risk tolerance and is unlikely to adopt a gung - ho strategy by starting with a 6 % withdrawal rate for the coming 30 or 40 years of
retirement.
While the passive path to accumulating your
pension pot is well lit by blogs, books, and preachers of the gospel, the more difficult question of how to safely ration your
retirement savings has no simple answer.
The
pot is subject to the volatility of the investment market, and whatever is in the
pot at
retirement is the
pension fund that the member receives.
That said, a major
pensions and investment company's
retirement calculator estimates you need a
pot of # 340,000 for a «basic cost of living» of # 12,399 p / a.
I personally like to have a lot of different honey
pots, so will have some db
pension, some RRSP, some TFSA and some non-registered when
retirement day finally arrives.
Then when you get to
retirement age, no matter what, you'll have a decent
pension pot.
If this amount was invested into a
pension in a typical balanced fund for 35 years, it could result in a
pension pot of # 189,607 — enough to fund 8 years in
retirement, based on receiving # 23,000 annually.