Originally published on Marketwatch.com http://www.marketwatch.com/story/4-is-more-of-a-guideline-than-a-rule-2014-08-26 In my last column I wrote about some considerations retirees should make when calculating how much money they are planning to withdraw from their retirement portfolio. I closed that article with a very brief discussion of the Trinity Study, also known as the 4% rule. The Trinity study was originally done in 1998 and found that by starting your retirement income at a rate of …Read More
4% Rule calculating your retirement withdrawals
There are many factors to consider when deciding how much you should withdraw from your retirement portfolio annually. You need to think about life expectancy, the rate of return on your investments, inflation and your personal goals for your assets in addition to your income needs. In the case of a married couple who retires at age 65, there is a good chance that one of them will live for …Read More
Fed policy and your retirement portfolio
Originally published in MarketWatch.com http://www.marketwatch.com/story/fed-policy-and-your-retirement-portfolio-2014-08-07 At the most recent Federal Open Market Committee meeting, Chairwoman Janet Yellen reiterated that the economy is improving and deflation risks are disappearing. The Fed is planning on ending its QE, or quantitative easing, program in October and hasn’t signaled that it will begin raising rates before next summer in 2015. In her semiannual Humphrey-Hawkins testimony to congress, Yellen mentioned that she thought that high-yield …Read More