Not exact matches
We also computed the portfolio balance (in real dollars) at the end of the 35 -
year retirement period for successful
scenarios.
Based on my 401 (k) dashboard where I've run different
retirement scenarios, it states that I contributed roughly $ 200,000 to my 401 (k) over 13
years with the remaining $ 200,000 + coming from match, profit sharing, and investment returns.
For example, if SS plus $ 10k is a must - have
scenario, then you should be allocating $ 10k a
year per
retirement year in TIPs or i - bonds.
Finally, we inverted our model to calculate the sustainable withdrawal rate (the maximum rate at which a given portfolio may be drawn down without depleting the portfolio before the end of the 35 -
year retirement horizon) for each of the 100
scenarios.
This is not the
scenario that would have been envisioned a generation ago for the «Golden
Years» of
retirement.
In the worst case
scenario, where the kid doesn't get any money for college, you always have the option of taking 4
years off from investing for
retirement and plowing the money instead right out of your paycheck into school costs.
And, worst case
scenario, if things don't work out as planned, I can always stay in the workforce for a few extra months or a
year, work part - time, or (worst case
scenario) go back to working full time for a short stint later on in
retirement.
Consider an alternative
scenario: We sock away $ 821 a month for 33
years, from age 22 to 55, and then stop saving and simply leave the money to grow for the final 10
years before
retirement.
However, in order to both keep the model as simple as possible and give predictions that are in reality a best - case
scenario, our model simply assumes that each household's income grows at a steady, fixed rate each
year, that
retirement savings grow and accumulate returns at a steady pace, etc. (For more detail on the values used in the model for growth in home values,
retirement assets, etc., see the Methodology Appendix below).
If it appears your savings are likely to run out early in
retirement, you can see how alternative
scenarios, such as cutting back on spending or postponing
retirement a few
years, might tilt the odds more in your favor.
If the hypothetical 50 -
year - old in the savings
scenario above were to save $ 1,000 a month and work to age 68 instead of 65, he would enter
retirement with an extra $ 95,000, or a nest egg of nearly $ 383,000 instead of roughly $ 288,000.
Those trying to manage a lump sum for income in
retirement are playing a dangerous game where if you try to draw more than 3.5 % /
year with regularity will prove challenging, because that is playing at the boundary of what the assets can deliver, and leaves little room for an adverse
scenario.
In that
scenario you don't run through your
retirement savings after eight
years but after 10
years instead.
After the five -
year waiting period, where she doesn't need to touch any of her
retirement account money but is no longer working, the winners are
Scenarios 2a and 2b.
Why should I not spend the best, healthiest
years of my life striving towards a passionate life, instead of torturing myself, working for a nebulous future
retirement scenario; in which my health is too poor to enjoy it?
For the Cancun [2C]
scenario, the assumed rate of global
retirements until 2027 would be 25 GW per
year in the OECD, a level that is on par with the current trend... and 15 GW per
year in China, consistent with China's announced goal of retiring 100 GW of current capacity... the Cancun
scenario through 2029 could be achieved without retiring plants younger than 40
years.
In the above
scenario, the couple is better off purchasing a 20 to 30 -
year term life policy to hold them over until they reach
retirement, when the risk of income loss and child - care expenses disappears.