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08-24-2017, 05:31 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Location: Hong Kong
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FWIW with a potential need for our savings to last 50+ years, I consider this to be as close to perpetual as makes no practical difference.
I have no confidence in my ability to correctly predict investment returns, inflation, tax rates, expenses or a lot of other relevant things very far into the future so our portfolio is built to at least some extent on guess work.
I've assumed that over the very long term equities and real estate will produce real returns equal to their net yield. I have put most of our assets into real estate and equities and plan to spend less than the net rents/dividends. There is a small allocation to bonds/cash/bullion to provide a cushion against any disruptions to our primary income sources. With this model, my (probably overly optimistic) view is that it does not matter too much what withdrawal rate I assume - I'm only spending what comes in and what comes in will grow over time (though with some volatility).
Further, we currently have debt equal to 9-10% of total household assets with interest rates below the rate of inflation and the yield on our portfolio. Most of our loans are P+I, meaning a little bit is being payed off each month. If/when market conditions are right, we plan to borrow again to buy another property. Maybe we are overly optimistic but adding an additional property every (say) five years or seems like a good idea to us.
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08-24-2017, 05:40 AM
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#42
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Dec 2015
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fermion
Everyone here is wrong, the correct answer is 2.73489% Anything else will just fail utterly.
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Actually, I thought the correct answer was 3.14159. It also helps figuring out things pertaining to circles.
It is an amazing number.
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What is a safe perpetual withdraw rate?
08-24-2017, 11:10 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Syracuse
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What is a safe perpetual withdraw rate?
Bengen says 4% in the Redditt AMA. (see current thread - 4.5% is the updated SWR according to Bill Bengen
http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...ad.php?t=88161).
I'm sure few here will agree with that.
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08-24-2017, 11:11 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 1,085
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Quote:
Originally Posted by HadEnuff
Actually, I thought the correct answer was 3.14159. It also helps figuring out things pertaining to circles.
It is an amazing number.
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As easy as pi.
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08-24-2017, 12:01 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Brewster
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Totoro
One can even run out of money with a negative withdrawal rate in some crazy scenarios with a very low likelihood. I think we're better off rephrasing the question:
At what point are the odds of running out of life much higher than running out of money?
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+1
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08-24-2017, 12:55 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Flyover country
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Maybe I can help. By coincidence, I'm running an experiment right now to see if my withdrawal rate is the best for me. When the experiment is concluded I'll leave instructions to post the details.
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08-24-2017, 01:48 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Seattle
Posts: 6,023
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No need to do that. We will know either way. If we never hear from you about it, then it has succeeded or the experiment fails and you can post from Wal-mart during your break period.
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08-24-2017, 05:47 PM
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#48
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 35,712
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fermion
... For $200 a month you only need a portfolio of $60,000 but you could get by on a lot less than that if you did $2000 worth of checking account churning.
Maybe I should keep $60,000 in a 1 year CD then I can always run Firecalc with 100% success.
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If a guy lives on $200/month by being a bushman, will he have access to the Internet to post about his experience? Can one get a cellphone dataplan with that budget?
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08-24-2017, 06:46 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Location: Seattle
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Quote:
Originally Posted by NW-Bound
If a guy lives on $200/month by being a bushman, will he have access to the Internet to post about his experience? Can one get a cellphone dataplan with that budget?
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Internet is free at the local library and the bushman could ride his/her bike since they have cancelled their car insurance.
So I guess they could post about it. There is always a solution.
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08-24-2017, 06:55 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Madison
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It's amazing how many times this "dead horse" can get flogged and never get answered.
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08-24-2017, 09:09 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Tampa Bay Area
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dtbach
It's amazing how many times this "dead horse" can get flogged and never get answered.
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never answered ? it is absolutely answered over ... and over ... and over ... and over .... the only thing that we don't get to is consensus.
It's definitely one of those "hindsight is 20/20" type of questions ! we won't know the answer until we get there
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08-24-2017, 09:22 PM
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#52
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Location: Seattle
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You could always just pick a number and withdraw that percentage on the recalculated balance each year. That should not fail over a 10, 100 or 1000 year period.
So say start with 5% SWR of $1,000,000, then if the market goes up 50%, take 5% of $1,450,000 the next year and if it drops 50% take 5% of $450,000.
It will never fail.
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08-24-2017, 10:41 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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08-25-2017, 12:13 AM
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Location: Rio Grande Valley
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By my calcs, for a 50/50 portfolio, 5-year treas and total stock market, 4.35% is the number where your portfolio doesn't tend to shrink over time and the 30 year average ending portfolio equals starting value. So your heirs will be happy too.
That is for % remaining portfolio.
You can draw more, and won't fail, but your later years income is more likely to be lower in real terms, than your initial income.
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08-25-2017, 03:16 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by audreyh1
By my calcs, for a 50/50 portfolio, 5-year treas and total stock market, 4.35% is the number where your portfolio doesn't tend to shrink over time and the 30 year average ending portfolio equals starting value. So your heirs will be happy too.
That is for % remaining portfolio.
You can draw more, and won't fail, but your later years income is more likely to be lower in real terms, than your initial income.
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I'm surprised that more people dont seem to use % of remaining portfolio. I guess too volatile? Maybe they do? Another approach is "just spend divs". Probably less volatile and you will never run out.
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08-25-2017, 04:40 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Danmar
I'm surprised that more people dont seem to use % of remaining portfolio. I guess too volatile? Maybe they do? Another approach is "just spend divs". Probably less volatile and you will never run out.
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I suppose volatility is a major issue for many, especially folks with high fixed expenses. But if you have large discretionary expenses, and/or set aside excess funds after good market years, it should be easy to deal with the income ebb and flow. Especially if your instincts will be to cut back after bad market years anyway.
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08-25-2017, 08:49 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Denver
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Danmar
I'm surprised that more people dont seem to use % of remaining portfolio. I guess too volatile?
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Like Audrey, we use the % of portfolio method. Volatility is an issue! We ER'd in 2008 and had to tighten our belts considerably in 2009. We had enough of a buffer (discretionary budget) in our withdrawal amount that we could do this & still enjoy ER that year. These days, we're living very comfortably on less than the 4% of portfolio that we planned for. Our move to Denver from NJ lowered our fixed expenses quite a bit making us better prepared for a downturn in our portfolio.
We also put some money away in an emergency bucket to be used for years where our "% of portfolio" withdrawal would make life too difficult or for big expenses like a new car. So far, we've dipped into it only once. That was when we moved residence from NJ to CO.
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08-25-2017, 10:14 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2009
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Quote:
Originally Posted by audreyh1
I suppose volatility is a major issue for many, especially folks with high fixed expenses. But if you have large discretionary expenses, and/or set aside excess funds after good market years, it should be easy to deal with the income ebb and flow. Especially if your instincts will be to cut back after bad market years anyway.
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Agree. This really describes what we do, although it's div based. Much like taking about 3.5-3.75% of current portfolio value every year. Really only considered one expense tightening. That was in 2009 naturally. Divs are almost double what they were in 2007. Nice way to cover inflation. Never had any significant div cuts (I certainly know it's total return that counts and my total return has outperformed appropriate benchmarks).
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08-25-2017, 10:31 AM
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#59
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Not sure what the correct WR should be but my thought is everyone has a little different situation. I'm 15 month's into retirement and the one year WR report for me was .5%. and will see what the numbers show for WR Jan. 2018. I believe it will be very close to that this year as well unless something out of the ordinary come up. For me if I want to spend more I will because I know I can and still be safe.
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08-25-2017, 11:33 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Location: Rio Grande Valley
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Quote:
Originally Posted by walkinwood
We also put some money away in an emergency bucket to be used for years where our "% of portfolio" withdrawal would make life too difficult or for big expenses like a new car. So far, we've dipped into it only once. That was when we moved residence from NJ to CO.
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To me this is the easiest way to deal with the volatility, plus a good way to "save" for large one off expenses. If you don't aggressively ramp up spending after good market years, this happens kind of naturally.
Congrats on surviving the 2008 bloodbath using this method!
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