Tag: safe withdrawal rates

Valuation-Informed Indexing #377 By Rob Bennett Say that you and a friend were having a discussion about how the stock market works in 1996. Robert Shiller had just delivered his testimony to the Federal Reserve in which he argued that […]

Valuation-Informed Indexing #371 By Rob Bennett The last two columns argued that the biggest problem with Buy-and-Hold is all the questions it takes off the table. The first of the two articles made the general argument that, once an investor […]

Valuation-Informed Indexing #370 By Rob Bennett Last week’s column argued that the biggest problem with the Buy-and-Hold strategy is all the questions it takes off the table. It’s not just that Buy-and-Holders increase risk and diminish their long-term returns by […]

Valuation-Informed Indexing #363 By Rob Bennett Buy-and-Holders and Valuation-Informed Indexers have some sharp differences on how to calculate the safe withdrawal rate (the percentage that a retiree can take out of his portfolio each year with virtual certainty that the […]

Valuation-Informed Indexing #360 on the question of safe withdrawal rate and whether it even exists By Rob Bennett Michael Kitces argues in his recent podcast interview with the MadFientist blog that there is a floor on safe withdrawal rates — […]

Valuation-Informed Indexing #358 on the S&P 500 and how it impacts safe withdrawal rates for retirees By Rob Bennett Michael Kitces was recently interviewed on his views re safe withdrawal rates at the Madfientist blog. He offered an interesting observation […]

Note to Reviewer: Please arrange for posting of this article at 7:00 a.m. on Tuesday, July 25, 2017. Valuation-Informed Indexing #351 by Rob Bennett The Buy-and-Hold retirement studies get the numbers wrong. I have been saying that since the morning […]

Valuation-Informed Indexing #309 by Rob Bennett This is my fourth column commenting on a recent article published in the Wall Street Journal by Wade Pfau (What Is the Sustainable Spending Rate for Retirees in 2016?). I saved the most […]

Valuation-Informed Indexing #308 by Rob Bennett This is my third column commenting on a recent article published in the Wall Street Journal by Wade Pfau (What Is the Sustainable Spending Rate for Retirees in 2016?). The first column raised […]

Valuation-Informed Indexing #307 by Rob Bennett I wrote last week about a recent article in the Wall Street Journal (What Is the Sustainable Spending Rate for Retirees in 2016?) by Wade Pfau that adopts my suggestion (from 14 years […]