I’m planning on retiring at the end of this year, at age 56, single man, with an estimated $6.5M after selling my home. About 84% in taxable. Since I will have sold my house, I plan to travel, slowly. I will do Roth conversions in the following years. Asset allocation of 75% US stock, 24% bonds (total bond, munis, I bonds), 1% cash. Social security but no pensions.

Thanks, Ari. Learning from a great teacher maximizes the value of time spent.😀

@earlyretirementari

5 ай бұрын

You are so welcome! Thanks, David.

Thank you Ari for the great content and awesome delivery!. Just one suggestion: when sharing your screen you should maximize it with you taking only a small portion of the screen like James and many others do. In this video you were taking about a third of the screen and what you were sharing was too small to read. Thank you.

@earlyretirementari

5 ай бұрын

Thank you! I’ll make that change so it’s as big as possible. I appreciate the feedback.

Ari....Great video...Keep up the good work! db

@earlyretirementari

2 ай бұрын

Ty!

I really like you and your partner. You both are clear and know your stuff. What I don't know, is why your company is an AUM. I won't work with one, for a couple of reasons, but YOU brought up the main reason for me. It would just be too much money, given the portfolio size. Have you thought about some type of service that is more "self service" where people would send you a portfolio analysis done maybe with something like New Retirement, and you advise and critique for a fee? I bet a lot of your viewers would be interested. (Not suggesting just you be the reviewer, maybe a team you manage.) Anyways, I am a subscriber, and watch your videos mainly for the reason why I thnk you make them. I find personal finance, and retirement analysis interesting, and you can help people ALOT. (I help people in other ways besides YT, but we mostly communicate the same knowledge, and skills that you do.) . Difference is you reach many, I reach few. But I can give more detailed advice than you can though. Anyway I hope you consider the "self service idea", perhaps you need to tweak it, or put a lot of structure around it.

@hypoxicX

3 ай бұрын

Completely agree with your sentiments @buyerclub2. No AUM agreement for me either. Also wishing they would offer an 'a la cart' scenario analysis service.

@7SideWays

2 ай бұрын

I agree. The AUM model, even with a decreasing % fee for larger portfolios, benefits the advisor too much. I'd be more interested if a flat annual fee or per review.

Thanks Ari for the case study. Like always it was packed with a lot of information that you presented in an easy to understand way.

@earlyretirementari

5 ай бұрын

Thanks Mark!

I appreciate the case study. This portfolio has so much overlap, complication and fees. 80%+ should be in broad .04% index funds full stop, done. But most of the public spends more time comparing $1 diffs in basic daily whatevers than they do learning simple investor basics so they come to FPs. Hopefully good ones like you.

@earlyretirementari

2 ай бұрын

Thank you.

Excellent video, very instructive. Is the software you use available to your customers?, thanks and keep up the good work.

@earlyretirementari

5 ай бұрын

Thank you! Yes - it is available to all of our clients.

I'm only 3 mins into the video and these folks have a $45k/year pension, around $5m in assets and their main question is how soon they can retire? I mean, what is your current lifestyle? If your expenses are less than $250k a year, you can safely withdraw $200k to $250k a year and your money will never run out!!

great video! What tool did you use to find the breakdown of each mutual fund/etf to see what each holds in individual stocks?

Awesome

I love these planning sessions. Thank you. One thing I want to know is that these kind of High worth individuals that you show must have real estate. Either direct ownership or through syndications. How come you never show anything on that side of their investment? I would like to see somebody with a more rounded financial situation other than just stocks and bonds and the regular everyday items that many of you FPs cover. No one has ever gone to in-depth plan with other assets involved and how they impact the financial retirement plan. Thanks for the good work.

@earlyretirementari

3 ай бұрын

Great idea. I’ll add that to my next video! Yes they often have significant real estate :)

@hankking4878

3 ай бұрын

@@earlyretirementari look forward to hearing it.

I'm jealous of the easy software option to optimize Roth conversions at the touch of a slider that sets the maximum tax bracket, but I'm a lot less sure that a conversion plan that ignores IRMAA brackets is giving a good optimization. Your opinion, Ari ?

Appreciate you doing portfolios of all sizes. One Q: At the income levels you're talking about here wouldn't AMT impact some of the tax brackets you show at about the 21:50 mark?

@earlyretirementari

5 ай бұрын

Yes it certainly can, but you can do plan around this with income so it’s not an issue. I may do a separate video on that if it’s helpful!

@timsans1170

5 ай бұрын

​@@earlyretirementari Yes please!

Great vid ... but Vanguard isn't the dollar store. It's the honda and toyota of investment institutions.

I get my groceries at Aldi & Wal-Mart, so i guess it's no surprise that the vast majority of my investments are index mutual funds. 😅 I use New Retirement software and have gotten a lot of perspective by "pushing buttons & pulling levers" like is done in this video. Very enlightening to see how my plan can fail. With a $5M portfolio & "normal" lifestyle, it's difficult to NOT get a probability of success percentage of 99-100%. If you haven't done a deep dive into your financial situation, it's comforting to know you'll be (more than) okay. However, after it percolates in your mind a while, you wonder what you're going to do with $27M when you're 90. At that point, you realize you can enjoy life more than you imagined. My sweet spot for success percentage now is 85-90%--still plenty of cushion, but many more opportunities to use wealth to enhance your life.

With large portfolios, I don't understand the need for complex balancing/rebalancing and broad diversification. Set aside 5 or so years of expenses in short-term stable investments (offset by steady income from dividends, interest, and social security) to ride out any bear market, and the rest can remain in growth. The investment decisions actually get easier with large portfolios.

Love your videos. The best quality on the internet for retirement financial planning. I have a new question that I hope you can address. Once you have maxed out your 401k or IRA, would it make any sense to fully fund a child's 529 plan, even if you thought there was a good chance you might not be able to use it for education. In other words, would it ever make any sense to fully fund a 529 plan with the INTENTION of paying the 10% penalty and tax to use it on non educational expenses some day, as compared to a taxable brokerage account, just to get the tax deferred capital gains ????????

why send detailed info like that WITHOUT the expenses expected per year or presence or absence of big liabilities like a mortgage? if his question is how much he can pull, obviously he can get 244K/yr with the pension plus 4% withdrawal rate and with enough money in the brokerage for bridge account before touching the retirement plans. what if they spend 400,000 per yr then it wouldn't be enough. they also will likely get 73K per yr in SS(those should be in todays dollars). at least i learned about the 50% applies to spousal benefits AT FRA.

O well i,m absolute not a specialist in these matters but 5 million in a high yield account makes you aprox 150 K a year add some additional income, you can spend 200K a year

withdraw only 15k and 5k with SS.... live on 20k/mo only. Then if you buy a car take the whole thing out on a good month. Buy low sell high. you will probably find you can increase your withdraw to 20k after 5 yrs... then 25k after 10 yrs. The growth will be insane.

@earlyretirementari

Ай бұрын

Yes!

Great info, you guys are so knowledgeable. I’m learning a lot, each video is a well of knowledge.

Are you assuming RMD dollars go to their spending or reinvest in brokerage account as their expenses are covered from other sources?

@earlyretirementari

5 ай бұрын

Assume RMD is spent in this example.

@Fiwithoptions

5 ай бұрын

@@earlyretirementari Thank you. Great content👍

@earlyretirementari

5 ай бұрын

@@Fiwithoptions you’re so welcomen

Is there a way to access this kind of software ?

@DrBilly90210

27 күн бұрын

New Retirement

without knowing what they wanna spend , its impossible to know ....the whole retirement scenario has little to do with portfolio size , but a ton to do with expenses ... if they only wanna spend 3k per month , they could have retired 20 years ago 🤣

@earlyretirementari

5 ай бұрын

You’re so right! Wish they would have mentioned it (since I’m equally curious to all of you). I have asked and will report back once they reply.

Ariiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!

@earlyretirementari

3 ай бұрын

Yes, How Can I help you?

So this will apply to me never. 😂

How much is enough? It's never enough LOL

Good info as always however this is like a beautiful woman saying-Am I pretty?

@DrBilly90210

27 күн бұрын

LOL, good analogy! And to carry it further, a beautiful woman can have a lot of anxiety over losing her looks.

Who wants to be the richest person in the graveyard, seriously. Die with $0. Enjoy the life you worked hard for, not leaving it for anyone.

@katovomkozies

4 ай бұрын

Ultimate Boomer comment 😅 Hope you leave something for your heirs

@bobs4718

4 ай бұрын

@@katovomkoziesyes, boomer is indeed the case. We have no kids, only neices and nephews and we already spoil them rotten. Money left behind for others is ok but time spent and money spent on family while you’re still alive is so much better. It’s about the experience, not the money left behind. Spending every cent

The problem is with roth most make way too much to contribute to roth so you can't do it... this example is kind of unrealistic in that way.

@earlyretirementari

Ай бұрын

Do you use a mega backdoor?

@davedeboy5726

Ай бұрын

@@earlyretirementari you can't. My friend ended up in prison doing that because his CPA told him he could but he made too much money. He was in the slammer for 3 yrs and lost all the gains over those years.

@earlyretirementari

Ай бұрын

@@davedeboy5726 wow! Sorry to hear about you friend. Why isn’t everyone who executes it in prison?

@davedeboy5726

Ай бұрын

@@earlyretirementari because they don't make enough money... that's why, so roth conversion can be performed. my friend made over 500k/yr. he was way over the limit.

@earlyretirementari

Ай бұрын

@@davedeboy5726 sorry to hear about your friend

Obviously you need $1 Billion a year before death

How many of us have 5 million 😂

@timsans1170

5 ай бұрын

Keep laughing Laughing boy

@TheRealOMT

5 ай бұрын

@@timsans1170 it’s good for health, you might consider pulling your stick out and trying it sometime 😂🤣😜

@Post4JM

4 ай бұрын

People who work hard and invest wisely will have this by retirement

@timsans1170

3 ай бұрын

More than you think. How much do you have?

@sammysoda8881

3 ай бұрын

Didn’t you listen to the video? He said that he has videos based on different amounts. Find your amount and then watch the video. To your question, many of us have $5 million portfolios and that is why we are watching this.

If you help every 5 million dollar investor you will have helped a VERY SMALL percentage of the population .... best of luck ...

@earlyretirementari

5 ай бұрын

Thank you. I try to make videos for everyone from $0 to $10M so everyone can get guidance! Everything for beginners to those ultra-advanced.

@ChristopherEvans-650

5 ай бұрын

@@earlyretirementari True, but for every video you post, you have helped a very large percentage of us DIY planners. Keep it up. 👍

@earlyretirementari

5 ай бұрын

@@ChristopherEvans-650 thank you very much

@timsans1170

5 ай бұрын

​@@earlyretirementari On behalf of the 2% we thank you! Advice to the rest, Numbers are numbers and we can always learn by listening and applying them to ourselves. Live below your means and be deliberate and you will achieve success too.

@earlyretirementari

5 ай бұрын

@@timsans1170 you got it.

Get real; most people don't have $5 Mill for retirement.