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Retirement in a High-Inflation Environment – SWR Series Part 51
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Retirement in a High-Inflation Environment – SWR Series Part 51
Equity valuations matter the most. And recall, the CAEY is something that’s actually observable at the start of retirement. Trailing inflation has a positive (!) impact on the SWR and even with the perfect foresight of the future 30 years of inflation you can only hope for a whacky, not exactly monotone relationship between inflation and the safe withdrawal rate. Looking back at historical data, t
By Mirza Ashraf Beg1 min read
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