Retirement Savings: Choosing a Withdrawal Rate That Is ...

75% stocks/25% bonds; 50% stocks/50% bonds; 25% stocks/75% bonds; 100% bonds. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index was used to represent stocks, and long-term, high-grade corporate bonds were used to represent bonds. (All stock, bond, and inflation data were from “Stocks, Bonds, Bills, and Inflation, 1996 Yearbook,” Ibbotson Associates, 1996). ................
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