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drumtochty wrote: »The poster was not making any assumptions with regards investment returns, they simply said it would last a certain time based on capital value divided by simple annual withdrawal from the initial capital value .
Therefore they are correct if someone had taken that simple approach.
They were not saying they would do that!!!!
But the question goes to pension planning. There are enough variables and estimates (read; guesswork) involved in planning as it is so those assumptions that can be reasonably accepted should be used.0 -
JoeEngland wrote: »Month of birth may also affect life expectancy:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC30243/#!po=4.41176
Yet no word on what the Winter and summer births are doing? Everyone in our family is winter or summer lol0
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