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Bill Bernstein: Revisiting The Four Pillars of Investing

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How Much Tips Should You Put Into a Fixed Annuity?

Many academic researchers are big on annuities as a component of the retirement plan, particularly very basic fixed annuities. You're taking a massive amount of inflation risk with a deferred annuity because there you're not getting paid for many, many years. And that payout may look nice and fat in spectacular 20 years before it pays off. So how should a retiree decide how much to put into such bonds? It really depends upon what their burn rate is. A low burn rate, you don't need tips. The higher your burn rate, the better an idea they become.

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