How to Maximize a Safe Withdrawal Rate

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Shirley: I would rather take a much more holistic and mathematically based approach than using personality profiles or labeling as the primary basis for constructing a retirement or withdrawal strategy. The first thing that you need to do is evaluate your expenses, she says. And then off of that gross amount subtract all of the net incomes you expect to receive whether that's pension, social security, rental properties; some kind of residual income or business income or expected employment income. Now if all of those things actually cover your expenses then you really don't need much of a withdrawal strategy according to Shirley.

In this episode we answer emails from Pete, MyContactInfo and Jenzo. We discuss leveraged funds, a paper about holding them longer term and optimal leverage, analyzing leveraged portfolios, meta-concepts of retirement portfolio planning and how to separate the critical components of a withdrawal strategy (the dogs) from various management techniques, labeling methods and mental accounting (the tails), and last year's scare paper about hyper-low safe withdrawal rates of poorly constructed international portfolios.

Links:

Leveraged Portfolios Article/Paper: Double-Digit Numerics - Articles - The Big Myth about Leveraged ETFs (ddnum.com)

Sample Optimized Portfolios Article: What Is a Leveraged ETF and How Do They Work? (optimizedportfolio.com)

Analysis of UPRO vs S&P: https://tinyurl.com/me4c2xj9

Analysis of TNA vs. IWM: Backtest Portfolio Asset Allocation (portfoliovisualizer.com)

Analysis of TMF vs. TLT: Backtest Portfolio Asset Allocation (portfoliovisualizer.com)

Portfolio Charts Risk/Reward Calculator: RISK AND RETURN – Portfolio Charts

Portfolio Visualizer Efficient Frontier Tool: Efficient Frontier (portfoliovisualizer.com)

Bond Funds vs. Bond Ladders: Owning Individual Bonds vs. Owning a Bond Fund - A Wealth of Common Sense

Low Safe Withdrawal Rate Paper: delivery.php (ssrn.com)