While determining a withdrawal rate is not an exactscience, we thought it would be helpful to put some numbers to the scenario of a balanced portfolio to try to discern what a reasonable figure would be for investors to use as a starting point.
Anyone that's ever tried to plan an outdoor activity in advance knows that weather forecasting is not an exactscience, but the perpetual sky-watchers at NASA may have inadvertently found a way to improve these guesstimations.