Indeed, as Bankrate financial analyst Greg McBride warned in a recent Marketwatch article, «Nothing kills a portfolio quicker than taking
withdrawals in a declining market.»
Not exact matches
A new study published by Morningstar shows the updated US stock
market performance since then (which includes 50 %
decline in 2003 and 57 %
decline 2007 - 09) can now survive a 2.8 %
withdrawal rate over 30 years.
If you do find one of your clients
in an early
withdrawal retirement scenario during a
declining market, sit tight, Moraif said.
Starting with a conservative
withdrawal rate and adjusting later can help guard against
market declines early
in retirement.»
Just as real estate lending fuels land speculation, so the
withdrawal of such credit leaves property
markets to
decline, sometimes with a crash, as occurred
in Japan after 1990 when its financial bubble burst.
Following the 48 % percent
market decline in 1973 - 1974, investors made
withdrawals from their holdings of equity mutual funds during 24 consecutive quarters, from the second quarter of 1975 through the first quarter
in 1981 (From Jack Bogle's Common Sense on Mutual Funds).
This sort of financially motivated
withdrawal is not available to the investor
in a Treasury security because the Treasury security's price will have
declined to fully reflect any increase
in market interest rates.
In a period of
declining market values, continued
withdrawals could eventually exhaust the principal.
In years when the
market declines, freeze your
withdrawal at the previous year's level, or decrease it to your bare essentials.
Faced with a substantial
decline in the MIP's
market value, and with resulting pressure from the wrap providers — which were exposed to liability
in the event of significant MIP fund
withdrawals — Fidelity responded by adopting an unduly conservative investment strategy that was contrary to the purposes of stable value fund investing, agreeing to allow the wrap providers to charge excessive fees, and charging excessive fees for its own account.
«The
declines reflect the seizing up of the credit
market and
withdrawals of monies from money
market funds, which held $ 700 billion of commercial paper at the end of the second quarter,» wrote Tony Crescenzi, chief bond
market strategist, Miller, Tabak & Co.
in New York
in an email note.
The inability of famed stock pickers such as Miller and Buchan to protect their investors from the recent
market declines has spurred $ 537 billion
in withdrawals from actively managed U.S. equity mutual funds since 2006, as clients have shifted money into
market index tracking investments, or index funds.
A
market decline can be a good time to convert money
in a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA because you can convert more shares for the same taxable
withdrawal, but you also have to assess whether converting makes sense at your age, experts says.