Can you fund retirement from capital growth?
When working out a retirement strategy, often people try to work out the value of investments they will need by multiplying the amount of annual retirement income they will need by a nominal interest rate. For example, if you want $100,000 p.a. in retirement and you think you can earn an income rate of say 3% p.a., you’ll need $3.4 million of net investment assets. The more aggressive you are with your interest rate assumption, the fewer assets you need to meet your goal. The reverse is also true.Beware, there are a couple of pitfalls with this approach.It results in a lazy asset allocationIf…
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