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Retirement Planning During Bear Markets – Especially if It’s Your First One In Retirement
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bearish market can really feel a whole lot different when you'' re retired and also you ' re no longer earning revenue from work especially if this is your first bearish market considering that you stopped functioning when you were younger you recognize you had time on your side you understand you may have even seen declines in the market as an opportunity since it offered you added time as well as you got to acquire more shares well points got on sale in a manner of speaking today probably that'' s not the situation the relationship in between our money and also our accounts currently are of money going out versus cash entering to put it just and plus you may have seen that there'' s this psychological component now around cash and not wanting to mess things up due to the fact that the decisions we make really lugged far more weight now when we'' re close to or in retirement as well as it ' s actually that ' s not only psychological or emotional it'' s real since preparing the distributions is far more complex than the the planning around around saving and putting cash right into the investment accounts what resulted in our financial investment success the last thirty years is a lot different than what'' s going to lead to success the next 20 or three decades or finally that'' s at the very least what we ' ve been seeing at simplify Monetary since 1998 given that we ' ve been around so I want to share just how to withstand with bad markets if you'' re near to retired life or you ' re already retired and after that what you can do to in fact make use of of this even if you'' re currently retired and also you'' re no more saving cash as well as we'' re mosting likely to do that due to the fact that we understand an universal regulation of physics that can'' t be disproven and we can in fact use it to our retired life and make it a bit better if you'' re thinking Dave what the heck are you speaking about below'' s a short description so Newton'' s third regulation of motion is that every activity there'' s an equal as well as opposite response right you'' ve heard that in the past so the manner in which I see it exists'' s a favorable to every unfavorable and also the exact same point there'' s an adverse to every favorable it'' s the regulation of polarity so I intend to share what the positive is to benefit from during negative markets and incidentally if I sanctuary'' t satisfied you yet I ' m Dave zoller and also Tim and also Luke as well as I and Sean we run enhance Financial it'' s a retirement planning firm and also we ' ve been around like I had actually stated considering that 98 so we'' ve seen clients actually go through it all the.com bust the financial situation and also then wish for and after that all things in between all those uh you know those mini worries that we'' ve had so we produced this channel to share what'' s working and also what has actually benefited them therefore that you can hopefully glean some wisdom from them and after that apply it to your your very own life so the initial point we require to be knowledgeable about is that the previous thirty years there were four bear Market Modifications to make sure that'' s a decrease of 20 or more and afterwards the three decades before that there was an overall of 5 bearish market Adjustments so the main takeaway is we require to anticipate these bear markets to take place throughout our retirement throughout that following 20 thirty years right the 2nd thing is we don'' t wish to make a modification only on a feeling right as well as it'' s not not simply making an extreme modification like selling every little thing as well as putting every little thing under the mattress right it'' s we were simply speaking with someone yesterday and also feelings can create us not to take an action when we recognize doing so is really the Smart Financial thing to do as an example throughout March of 2020 when it wasn'' t very easy to rebalance your accounts it was extremely hard to do however if you did follow through and also as well as do the right rebalancing system or technique if you were recalling now it can have made a great deal of sense the 3rd thing is upgrade your revenue plan since that helps assist us and make truly excellent preparation choices around our financial investment strategy so it'' s really start with the revenue plan you ' ve heard that before which aids us make the investment choices versus the various other means around as well as upgrading your revenue strategy during bad markets that can additionally offer you some confidence in addition to you'' re checking out where we are today and afterwards considering over the next couple of years and as well as seeing that points possibly aren'' t as negative as it might seem at least when you ' ve got those two points of the unidentified and also then the known updating the plan is the well-known as well as you can obtain a little better image on what the future might appear like for you currently to the 2 things that perhaps might offer us a benefit throughout a time such as this this is back to the regulation of polarity so the feasible points that we could be able to make use of right here are well very first prior to I say it as always this is general advice to you so we'' re not looking at your your plan together so before you do anything simply speak with an economic professional yet idea top to think of is tax loss gathering that might be a way to cross out some of the losses while still maintaining your investment approach undamaged as well as I speak about this principle a whole lot much more in other videos so I'' m not going to go into information on it today however simply maintain that in mind the one point to to really take notice of though when we'' re we ' re speaking about the law or chatting regarding tax loss harvesting is that clean sale rule right so seek the various other videos or talk to that Monetary expert before thinking of doing that the second point that can be a possible chance for truly the very first time in an extremely long time is that capacity or choice to secure higher returns in that conservative container as you recognize the the bucket technique you'' ve seen that before where we'' ve obtained the feasible 3 pails as well as having that conventional container here is a fantastic means to plan and prepare for for bad markets as well as currently at the time of this recording a few of those historically traditional possession courses are paying a higher passion a higher yield than what we'' ve seen truly over the last decade which could be a silver cellular lining during this time period so those are just 2 points feasible points to consider which perhaps could be capitalized on by you for for your advantage so those are simply 2 points to consider during this time period that we'' re in now if that short video clip was handy please such as this and after that share it with others if you think it might assist them as well as well as if you'' d like to chat more regarding your plan feel complimentary to connect to me in the in the description below or go to our web site streamlinedplanning.com for get you click the get going button we put on'' t constantly have space readily available however you'' ll hear back from me in either case so I really hope that was handy and afterwards I'' ll see you in the following video clip
Can You Really Retire in Your 30s?
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When the Social Security Act was passed in
1935, retirement officially began at 65. And the life expectancy at the time was 58. So from the very outset, “retirement”
wasn’t exactly considered a universal experience. But over the last century as life expectancies
have climbed, the concept of retirement has become synonymous with the final chapter in
a person’s life. Then, the book “Your Money or Your Life”
came out in the 90’s and introduced a radical concept The author, Vicki Robin, proposed that by
living with extreme frugality for a few years, younger people could essentially become “retired”
long before old age. She claimed to have achieved financial independence…
in her 20’s! Today, the phenomenon of financial independence
at a young age goes by the acronym “FIRE”. It stands for “Financial Independence; Retire
Early”. And it’s no fringe movement – FIRE has been
covered by the New York Times, Market Watch, and Forbes.
And it’s got more and more millenials wondering
“could I quit my day-job too?” This isn’t about dropping out of society
or living in a cave… necessarily. FIRE practitioners work extremely hard while
living far below their means for years to amass enough savings to leave the workforce. And it doesn’t mean you’ll spend your
newfound freedom just hanging out in bowling alleys like Jeff Lebowski. Many people who manage to retire early continue
to work–but only on projects they’re passionate about. But the question remains… is it possible
to achieve through savings alone? Peter Adeney, aka “Mr. Money Mustache”,
might be considered the modern FIRE movement’s founding father. Adeney was working as a software engineer
while living dramatically below his means during his 20’s. He took his savings and paid off debt and
invested it it in stock-index funds. By 2005 and in his early-30’s, Adeney and
his wife had amassed around $600,000 and a paid-for home. He calculated he had enough to leave the work-force-permanently.
Adeney suggests that Early-Retirement is possible
through three fundamental concepts: Frugality, Investing, and the “4% Rule” of withdrawals. Let’s face it – unless you luck into a large
windfall of cash, you’ll have to save up a serious nest egg to retire. And the simplest way to do that is to slash
your lifestyle. Normally, financial advisors suggest a 10-15%
savings rate to retire at a normal age of 65 or so. Want to retire ahead of schedule? Then you’ll have to level that up. Most early-retirees adopt a 50% to 75% savings
rate… or more! It’s not uncommon for them to cut restaurants
& bars, buy cheap cars, bike to work, make do with a smaller house, and avoid luxuries
like gyms, fancy vacations, and expensive hobbies. Simply stashing cash into a bank account is
a good start. But the FIRE proponents rely on the power
of the markets to boost their savings rates. Assuming you saved your money into a general
stock-market index fund, you might expect 7-10% rate of return, based on historical
averages.
Any experienced investor will tell you that
year-to-year returns will swing wildly, maybe even crash! So that’s where the third rule comes in… A 1998 study by Trinity University concluded
that a 4% annual withdrawal rate of your money in retirement should allow you to never out-live
your money – even in a bad economy. This means that even with the dramatic ups
and downs of the stock and bond market, as long as your yearly expenses stay below 4%
of your total savings, you should be able to live off them for… well, theoretically,
forever. Put another way: you take your annual spending
needs, then multiply it by 25. That’s the amount you need to become financially
independent. By now I imagine you’re wondering what it
would take if YOU wanted to to retire early. I think it’s time to… RUN THE NUMBERS! Let’s imagine you have a household income
of $85,000, but you live way below your means and only need $35,000/yr to be happy.
According to our rule of 4%, you’ll need
$875,000 in the bank in order to be financially independent. Through extreme thrift and aggressive cost-cutting,
you’re able to save $50,000/yr, which comes to 59% of your annual income. At that rate of savings, and assuming your
stock-index funds got an average return of 7%, you’ll have hit your goal in… 12 years. A good income, frugal living, and compound
interest are a powerful wealth-building combination. You might be wondering “What if I don’t
make a ton of money? Is this realistic?” A common critique of the Early Retirement
movement is that Adeney and other leaders of the movement had high-paying jobs in medicine
or engineering. Making big bucks can certainly speed up the
process. But it’s not a requirement. Take Jillian Johnsrud. She began working towards financial independence
at age 19. Her husband served in the armed forces and
she worked in customer service and sales. Over the next 13 years they made an average
household income of $60,000, with no year over six-figures. And by 32 Jillian had saved enough to be completely
financially independent. All while raising adopted & biological children
and climbing out of $52,000 of debt. She uses her freed-up time to travel the country,
write, and raise her children.
Today she does some work as a writer and coach,
but it’s on her terms. If you think that “early retirement” is
all about lounging around and avoiding work, you’ve missed the point. Instead, it’s about taking an active step
to replace a job you hate with work you love… and often finances are the biggest hurdle. As Adeney says about the FIRE phenomenon:
“Early retirement means quitting any job you wouldn’t do for free – but then
continuing right ahead with work in something that works for you, even when you don’t
need the money.” And if you’ve already got a fulfilling job
you love– congratulations, you already have the benefits of early retirement without having
to save up for it! So whether or not you want to sprint toward
early retirement, the mindset of reducing your lifestyle, living simpler, and building
a more rewarding work-life is something we should all be aiming for. And that’s our Two Cents! If you were to retire today, what would you do with your newfound freedom? Tell us about it in the comments.
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The 4% Rule for Retirement (FIRE)
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If you have spent any time researching retirement planning online, you have heard of the 4% rule. If you haven’t heard of it, the 4% rule suggests that if you spend 4% of your assets in your initial year of retirement, and then adjust for inflation each year going forward, you will be unlikely to run out of money. To put some numbers to it, if you wanted to retire and spend $40,000 per year, adjusted for inflation, from your portfolio, you would need to retire with one million dollars to adhere to the four percent rule. This rule is alternatively described as the requirement to have 25 years worth of spending in your portfolio to afford retirement. 1/25 equals 4% – it’s the same rule. While it is simple and elegant, the 4% rule is probably not the best way to plan for retirement, especially if you plan on retiring early. I’m Ben Felix, Associate Portfolio Manager at PWL Capital. In this episode of Common Sense Investing, I’m going to tell you why the 4% rule is not a rule to live by.
The 4% rule originated in William Bengen’s October 1994 study, published in the Journal of Financial Planning. Bengen was a financial planner. He wanted to find a realistic safe withdrawal rate to recommend to his retired clients. Bengan’s breakthrough in determining a safe withdrawal rate came from modelling spending over 30-year periods in US market history rather than the common practice of simply using average historical returns. Using data for a hypothetical portfolio consisting of 50% S&P 500 index and 50% intermediate-term US government bonds he looked at rolling 30-year periods starting in 1926, ending with 1992. So, 1926 – 1955, followed by 1927 – 1956 etc., ending with 1963 – 1992. The maximum safe withdrawal rate in the worst 30-year period ended up being just over 4%. From this simple but innovative analysis, the 4% rule was born. More recently Bengen has adjusted his spending rule to 4.5% based on the inclusion of small cap stocks in the hypothetical historical portfolio.
While the 4% (and the 4.5% rule) may have basis in historical US data, there are substantial problems with these rules in general, and specifically in the case of a retirement period longer than 30 years. In his 2017 book How Much Can I Spend in Retirement, Wade Pfau, Ph.D, CFA, looked at 30-year safe withdrawal rates in both US and non-US markets using the Dimson-Marsh-Staunton Global Returns Dataset, and assuming a portfolio of 50% stocks and 50% bills. He found that the US at 3.9%, Canada at 4.0%, New Zealand at 3.8%, and Denmark at 3.7% were the only countries in the dataset that would have historically supported something close to the 4% rule. The aggregate global portfolio of stocks and bills had a much lower 30-year safe withdrawal rate of 3.5%. Considering returns other that US historical returns is important, but, in my opinion, one of the most important assumptions to be aware of in the 4% rule is the 30-year retirement period used by Bengen. People are living longer, and many of the bloggers citing the 4% rule are focused on FIRE, financial independence retire early.
In Bengen’s study the 4% rule with a 50% stock 50% bond portfolio was shown to have a 0% chance of failure over 30-year historical periods in the US. That chance of failure increases to around 15% over 40-year periods, and closer to 30% over 50-year periods. FIRE likely means a retirement period longer than 30 years. Modelling longer time periods using historical sampling becomes problematic because we have data for a limited number of historical 50-year periods.
One way to address this issue is with Monte Carlo simulation. Monte Carlo is a technique where an unlimited number of sample data sets can be simulated to model uncertainty without relying on historical periods. Even with Monte Carlo simulation, there is an obvious risk to using historical data to build expectations about the future. The world today is different than it was in the past. Interest rates are low, and stock prices are high. While it may be reasonable to expect relative outcomes to persist, such as stocks outperforming bonds, small stocks outperforming large stocks, and value stocks outperforming growth stocks, the magnitude of future returns are unknown and unknowable. To address this for financial planning, PWL Capital uses a combination of equilibrium cost of capital and current market conditions to build an estimate for expected future returns for use in financial planning. This process is outlined in the 2016 paper Great Expectations.
Using the December 2017 PWL Capital expected returns for a 50% stock 50% bond portfolio we are able to model the safe withdrawal rate for varying durations of retirement using Monte Carlo simulation. We will assume that a 95% success rate over 1,000 trials is sufficient to be called a safe withdrawal rate. For a 30-year retirement period, our Monte Carlo simulation gives us a 3.5% safe withdrawal rate. Pretty close to the original 4% rule, and spot on with Wade Pfau’s global revision of Bengen’s analysis. Now let’s say a 40-year old wants to retire today and assume life until age 95. That’s a 55-year retirement period. The safe withdrawal rate? 2.2%. I think that this is such an important message. The 4% rule falls apart over longer retirement periods. So far we have talked about spending a consistent inflation adjusted amount each year in retirement. One way to increase the amount that you can spend overall is allowing for variable spending. In general this means spending more when markets are good, and spending less when markets are bad. The result is more spending overall with a lower probability of running out of money. The catch is that you have to live with a variable income or have the ability to generate additional income from, say, working, to fill in the gaps when markets are not doing well.
We also need to talk about fees. Fees reduce returns. Fees may be negligible if you are using low-cost ETFs, but they become extremely important if you are using high-fee mutual funds, or if you are paying for financial advice. The safe withdrawal rate in the worst 30-year period in the US drops to 3.56% with a 1% fee, making the 4% rule the more like the 3.5% rule after a 1% fee.
Adding a 1% fee to the Monte Carlo simulation reduces the safe withdrawal rates by around 0.50% on average. In both cases this is a meaningful reduction in spending. Of course, fees need to be considered alongside the value being received in exchange for the fee. This value should be heavily tied to behavioural coaching and financial decision making. There have been two well-known attempts to quantify the value of financial advice, one by Vanguard and one by Morningstar. Vanguard estimated that between building a customized investment plan, minimizing risks and tax impacts, and behavioural coaching, good financial advice can add an average of 3% per year to returns. Morningstar looked at withdrawal strategies, asset allocation, tax efficiency, liability relative optimization, annuity allocation, and timing of social security (CPP in Canada), to arrive at a value-add of 2.34% per year.
PWL Capital’s Raymond Kerzerho has also written on this topic, finding an estimated value-add of just over 3% per year. Based on these analyses, one could argue that paying 1% for good financial advice could even increase your safe withdrawal rate. I would not go that far, but the point is that while fees are a consideration, they may be worthwhile in exchange for good advice.
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