Safe Withdrawal Rates for Aussies — Part 8: Summary (So Far)
Posted by Dan Montgomery on 11 February 2019 in Safe Withdrawal Rate Series
Many of us in the financial independence community like to consider ourselves non-conformists. While the masses are deep in consumer debt and locking themselves into years of work, the rest of us are being smarter with our money and setting ourselves up for a long life of leisure.
But at the same time, we all praise the 4% Rule like it’s gospel without questioning whether it applies to early retirees, particularly us way over here in Australia.
Over the last few months we’ve been deep in safe withdrawal rate analysis to test whether the 4% Rule actually works for us Aussies — or whether it’s not quite as ‘safe’ as we think.
This article stitches all that analysis together and introduces a simple tool for us to determine the exact safe withdrawal rate that applies to our individual circumstances and risk tolerance.
