Developing and maintaining a robust financial plan in retirement is a classic actuarial problem involving the time-value of money and life contingencies. This problem is easily solved with basic actuarial principles, including periodic comparisons of household assets and spending liabilities.
Saturday, June 7, 2014
Forget the 4% Rule--Use Our Approach Instead
David Ning has followed up his April 30, 2014 post questioning the relevance of the 4% Rule with another post indicating that the 4% Rule is an incredibly powerful tool but many investors will need to customize it to make it work. As indicated in our response to his first post, the better solution is to use the approach we recommend in our website rather than fuss around with "customizing" the 4% Rule.