Great video Rob. I like Fi Calc a lot. As I approach retirement I've run through several scenarios. Adding in "additional income" and making it start at age 70 (when wife and I are planning to start SS) makes a huge difference too. Keep up the great work, this channel is excellent.

Good topic, Rob. I kind of take that 4% rule with increasing withdrawals every year with a grain of salt. Everyone's personal situation is unique, and inflation hits people differently based on circumstance. I might put 10 gallons of gas in my car every 6 weeks or so, so I know gas is more expensive, but it doesn't crush me. I know groceries are more expensive, but again, it doesn't crush me. I don't have many bills and have lived kind of frugally since I was laid off ~3.5 yrs ago. I'm surprised how much less I live off of now. When I start taking from my IRA in 8 months, I'm not going to go 'hog wild' with spending. it will certainly rise a bit, but I don't anticipate adding x-% a year - but base it on the impact of inflation on my life at the time. Yeah, it would simplify these calculations a great deal if we all knew our exact expiration date, wouldn't it? 🤣

Great job, Rob!

Thank you for this detailed explanation. We are working on figuring out our spending plan starting in a year.

Good advice. Flexibility is the key as time goes on.

I want two things from my portfolio 1. To leave a Legacy and 2. To not worry about running out of money. By assuming you'll live until 110 accomplishes both. If you can arrange your budget around other streams of income, even if that's just SS, you may be able to plan on a 2-3% witdrawal, which in all cases should last indefinitely

Great stuff, Rob! I agree that I want to spend more early than late. If I have to make adjustments later, so be it but I want to travel the world now while my health is very good. I'm retiring after March of 2023 after just turning 60 in January. The whole age you'll live to is such a crapshoot. My family has very good longevity but my dad died at 77 with Parkinson's so you never know! Best thing you can do is take care of your body. I learned the hard way after having a heart attack a year ago. Since then I started eating heart healthy, lost a bunch of weight, and I've been consistently working out with weights. I'm in better shape now than in the last 30 years. Can't wait to start the next phase of life and I'll continue to learn how to make my money last. Keep up the great work! Not bad for a guy without all those fancy investment advisor letters following your name. 😁

@susanharkema2888

2 ай бұрын

Hi there: How has the first year in your retirement gone?? I'm seeing this comment as of 6/2024. Best of luck! We flip the switch in exactly 2 months at ages 53/55.

@srconrad

2 ай бұрын

@@susanharkema2888 It’s been fantastic! It doesn’t hurt that the stock market has done so well since I retired. I have more now than when I retired a year ago. Plus, I’ve done a fair amount of traveling both abroad and within the country. Best of luck to you!

love this show it shows even with market sell off my withdrawal is in line with what i thought was reasmble for my age in percent.think you.

I retired at 63 and have withdrew from cash to fill in gaps between income (SS) and expenses . RMD withdraw from investments at 72- letting my investments grow and compound ( 60 stocks, 40 bonds) at that point .No debt when retired .Simple strategy

@jeffb.2469

2 жыл бұрын

what about health insurance prior to Medicare?

Thanks Rob - a great discussion. I'd like to see a model with a withdrawal rate strategy that starts higher and diminishes with age - reflects the real world spending as we age... any that you can share would be appreciated!

The rmd tables can also cover before rmd age. If you use them you will not run out of money.

Second the request for a Guyton-Klinger analysis. It’s a relatively simple approach, uses a guide rail approach that smooths out the withdrawals in a way this plan certainly does not.

Hi Rob, thanks for the video. Could you do a video about SWR with guardrails? Do you have a preferred withdrawal strategy?

Thanks Rob all the talk is about retirement % withdrawal. A great video would be kind of the opposite how can we dye with zero before we get too old to enjoy the experiences with family & friends. Love for you to talk about this strategy?

@Sylvan_dB

2 жыл бұрын

That's too easy. Simply spend as much as you want, and die when you run out. Or else tell me exactly when you will die, put all your money under your mattress, and I'll tell you how much you can spend. Or else it is impossible - investing return is hard enough but we can work around that single variable. But now you want to add in the unknown of when you will die?

Thanks Rob. Great insights and thanks for sharing as I was not aware of this Boglehead's Strategy. As a near retiree myself, I am struggling a bit finding a withdrawal method that I can have confidence in such that I won't run out money and also won't be withdrawing a percentage of something that I've drained down to only a mere fraction of what it was. Probably the best method I've seen so far is the Guyton-Klinger method. Wonder what your thoughts are on this method--and if you'd consider doing a video on it as well as any effective withdrawal strategy--which ideally, in my opinion, get's you down to zero on the day you assume or calculate your death to be at as well as allows you to take greater amounts out when you are a younger more mobile retiree than an older more sedentary one. Always appreciate your great insights. Thanks.

@paulbiel517

2 жыл бұрын

Just one more aside--I think for someone planning on retiring at 60, Bill Bengen's 30 year time horizon is too short and not really a confidence-inducing approach. Additionally, we don't know if history will repeat itself.

You should actually run a simulation of the method using a spreadsheet. You are wrong about the spending going up significantly toward the end of the disbursements. Although the percentages are getting bigger, each yearly payment is becoming composed of more and more principle and less and less interest or growth, so that the final payment is nearly 100% principle. But the size of each yearly payment remains uniform (other than growing at an average inflation rate).

VPW guards against 2 risks: running out of money in old age and dying the wealthiest in the cemetery. Regarding volatility the VPW spreadsheet calculates “required flexibility” assuming 50% market drop. Individuals with high equity allocations (90/10, 80/20) need greater flexibility and should not be surprised taking a haircut. Agree with previous post higher % withdraw as we age to compensate for portfolio drawdown down -not necessarily getting a huge raise as we age…

I HAVE A QUESTION. By the way, excellent videos! I have watched your different videos on withdrawal strategies, and I am not sure which one is your favorite. It seems to me that perhaps the 4% Bengen strategy seems to be the one that you favor most, is that correct? Would you mind doing a video on what you would consider to be your favorite strategy. Thank you and best regards.

@Rob Thank you for all the content. I got a query and would appreciate if you could help. I am 39 year old with a 3 year old son. I want to start investing early for him so he could reap the benefits of compounding. Should I invest into a single Index (VTI) for 15 years (till he becomes 18) or should I create a portfolio? What would you suggest to be more beneficial in the super long term as part of the amount might go for his college fees but remaining would be for his wealth creation (horizon of 40-60 years). Thank you in advance.

Sort of OT. Anybody know the asset class to use on a monte carlo simulation on portfoliovisualizer for QQQ? Doesn't seem to be anything thing good there to allocate to for Nasdaq 100 or tech anything.

Intriguing keyboard... mechanical? ;) Fi Calc is interesting. Thanks!

Wondering if you think VPW is a better tool, if you don't spend the recommended withdrawal every year. I have a Monte-Carlo model using this withdrawal method, and that model has spending at a start number plus spending inflation. So, instead of spending all the withdrawn money that is recommended by the VPW model each year, my model saves the withdrawal amount that is above the spending amount. Dramatically changes outcomes for portfolio survivability if you don't spend every dollar the VPW model recommends.

Your criticism around minute 10 is incorrect; Your spending does not go up with VPW. The reason the withdrawal percentage is rising is to mathematically compensate for the fact that you’re gradually eating into principle with this method, so the inflation adjusted value that’s withdrawn is theoretically going to be the same. Feel free to confirm this with longinvest who developed the method. Also, the criticism for the last half of the video about the high variability of VPW is basically invalid because VPW method is intended to be combined with social security and ideally a pension as well. So if you measure the variability without those, you basically made a strawman attack. And your “minimums” are social security and pension. The VPW portfolio is over and above social security and pension.

Thanks Rob. I don’t know if the BH wiki mentions this, but do you think the rapid increase in percent withdrawal listed is assuming risk/self-funding 2 years of LT Care needs (as the New Retirement calculations do)?

@rob_berger

2 жыл бұрын

I don't know, but good question.

I see all of these various withdraws strategies but why not come at this from the other side. Know your living expenses and then pull whatever it takes to meet those expenses. If that does not get you to your end point, then lower your expenses. For example, I use a popular finance tool and have tracked all spending for the last 30 years (yes I'm anal about it). For the last 5 years, we have lived at our planned retirement budget (+ or - 10%). So I calculate our retirement plan knowing near exact what we need each year. Am I wrong with this approach?

@JoeCoz17

Жыл бұрын

The average retiree has nowhere near enough assets to retire on their nest egg alone so the majority of retirees are trying to take out as much as possible

Does it suggest adding our death date on our Google calendar?

Thanks Rob for another great topic. Wow, these KZread comments sure do attract a lot of bogus spammers! - Bill

@rob_berger

2 жыл бұрын

Bot driven comments. I remove them when I see them.

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2 жыл бұрын

@@rob_berger Thanks Rob. Some of them usually message me directly posing as "Rob Berger," as I'm sure you are aware. I guess I'll have to get all of my "hot crypto" tips elsewhere! ;-0

@Ferdinand208

2 жыл бұрын

@@CalKidWilly Google can create self driving cars and self aware AI and can filter 99% of Gmail spam. But comment spam is just too difficult.

Just because you are taking the money out doesn't mean you have to spend it all. If I get to 95 a large bank account will suit me just fine

I'm a dividend investor. I spend 85 percent of my dividends and save 15 percent for tax. I get a raise every year and have yet touched any principle. It has worked great so far. 100 percent stock and zero bonds. Just spending dividends. It's like I'm in a dream.

@drdontpassone8164

2 жыл бұрын

steve is smart guy................

@baybay7898

2 жыл бұрын

What if the stock market crashes when dividends are cut? do you still withdraw the same amount every month?

@zsi

Жыл бұрын

​@baybay7898 he is only spending dividends and not selling principle. His stated method wpuld imply that his spending would cut in half if dividends were cut in half. So the real question is: at what point would he withdraw principle or incur capital gains if dividends were cut by X%? 30% 50%? 70%?

@commonsense5555

12 күн бұрын

@@zsi Even during the great depression dividends didn't suffer that much and same for the great recession. A properly invested dividend portfolio and dynamic spending will never result in you outliving your money. You can easily get a good dividend portfolio that yields 3.5-4% that'll last forever.

you keep using the word "spending" when i think you mean withdrawing from the portfolio. just because you take out $x does not mean you have to spend it. vital with these sort of methods which allow market sentiment to determine $ withdrawn. you need to spend less than you withdraw in some years to make up for others.

@rob_berger

2 жыл бұрын

Well, if I weren't going to spend it, I wouldn't withdraw it. But you're right. Just because a withdrawal strategy says you can take out a certain amount doesn't mean you should.

@leesmith9299

2 жыл бұрын

@@rob_berger that would be a different withdrawal strategy all together then. Taking out what you spend.

Perecentage. Well. You have more subscribers. So I must have written it wrong all this time.

Too complicated for a hazy-brained old hippie! I use "Age ÷ 20". For example, age 65: 65 ÷ 20 = 3.25. 70 ÷ 20 = 3.5. 80 ÷ 20 = 4.0, etc.

@rob_berger

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting. I wonder how close this is to just using RMD to calculate withdrawals.

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