Last week saw the highest withdrawal rate of this winter, at 153 billion cubic feet.
Our research points to 4% as being a reasonable starting point for a withdrawal rate.
Five key retirement risks include: longevity, market performance, withdrawal rate, inflation and health care.
Using this safe withdrawal rate, the growth rate of your investments over inflation will help you maintain your purchasing power.
However, both strategies should include a reasonable, inflation-adjusted withdrawal rate, which seeks to protect against running out of funds at an old age.
With careful planning and pacing you should be settled beyond Oregon City and living off a generous safe withdrawal rate by age 70.
Investors should also consider age, health, and other individual-specific issues in determining whether their own withdrawal rate should in fact be lower than this, or possibly higher.
But historically, investors with diversified balanced portfolios who took a total return approach to managing their investments in retirement were able to make this 4% withdrawal rate quite consistently.
Naturally, the appropriate withdrawal rate will differ for someone who is 65 versus someone who is 75 or 80, and depend on health and other issues specific to each individual.
Using historical returns and assuming a portfolio of 60% stocks and 40% bonds, he worked out three rules for determining a "safe" initial withdrawal rate and then adjusted for inflation annually.
Over this investment horizon (which began only four years earlier than the one we looked at in Exhibit 1), due to lower investment returns we observe that only the 4% withdrawal rate holds.
Start by selecting a sustainable withdrawal rate.
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While determining a withdrawal rate is not an exact science, 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.
The investigators were cautious in their interpretation, noting that the trial barely achieved statistical significance, most of the difference was found in the softer endpoint of revascularization, and the finding is less reliable since there was a high withdrawal rate (17%) of patients in the trial.
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In effect, this is the rate of withdrawal to avoid the ROOM, where you Run Out Of Money!
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Dipping into a Traditional IRA would be disastrous since you would have to pay a 10% penalty plus the withdrawal would be taxed at your marginal income tax rate.
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