04/22/2026
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One million dollars in an IRA is pretty good!
But according to Monte Carlo simulations, for your retirement to outlive you, you can only withdraw 4% at a time, which means you are taking out around 40k a year for retirement. Something tells me that with around 1 million dollars in retirement assets, you are making more than that yearly, so are you going to want to live off of 40k a year?
And if you live beyond 20-25 years in retirement, the chances of outliving your retirement fund become pretty high, even if you are withdrawing 4% annually as the statistics recommend. (Being around an estimate of 70% success rate to die before your retirement account balance hits 0). Does retirement begin to really sound like fun if you are constantly budgeting the few dollars you receive every year?
A great comparison to the chances of outliving the recommended 4% withdrawal rate is this: if a pilot of an airplane you got on said that you have a 70% chance of survival, would you get on that plane?
Probably not! We help you prepare for a comfortable, enduring retirement, with full transparency on what it will look like and a little optimism for your golden years, for free. We'd love to meet with you and get you ready for some of the best years to come.