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Financial Planning for a Long Retirement

How should individual investors ensure they have enough money for retirement?

Such a person is often a professional or entrepreneur who has worked to accumulate the wealth. Legions of "advisors"line up to take this money and manage it or else to sell "products" that promise to solve some problem or other. Without this background, extra savings will be needed, to buy advice. And advice is not invariably reliable.

A person who has created his/her career and its wealth from scratch, can likely manage investments themselves, or at least supervise the process from a position of strength from observation. Reliable advice is not always cheap.

This collection of articles explains to the individual investor how to take control of their wealth. They may eventually decide to look for help from an advisor but they will retain control of their assets and they will know what to do.

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Retirement Planning

Originally published: Monday, January 28, 2008; most-recently modified: Tuesday, April 23, 2019

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Posted by: Alan   |   Feb 15, 2008 7:26 PM
Let's revise the earlier comment. When retirement need exceed resources, you can tighten the belt and not spend so lavishly. However, the younger person contemplating a bleak retirement has one other option: don't retire so young. His best plan is to find a sweet spot between retiring x years later, and spending y dollars less when he does.
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The answer to

"How much can I withdraw from a fixed portfolio?"

is 4% a year.
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