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Gilberto de Piento
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When you give percentages for SWR, do you mean the chance that the portfolio with fail after a certain number of years, or the percentage of the portfolio that you spend in a given year?
The percentage of the portfolio that you spend in a given year.

The formula is:
Average monthly expenses * 12 / Financial independence assets = SWR
If it's the later, wouldn't it be more correct to call it just WR?
Yes, but everyone knows what you mean if you say SWR.

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C40
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Jacob, you're going to confuse the hell out of people if they eventually learn that the ERE guy is a millionaire.

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More-so if they accuse you of earning that million dollars by selling your book ;)

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Or going back to work :lol: Congrats, that's a great achievement.

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Egg wrote:~23.5%

Not sure that really counts as an "SWR", mind, as I'm pretty sure only the extremely foolish would feel confident getting the ~25% returns required to sustain that one...!
As someone new to ERE, I am finding this tricky. Perhaps I've misunderstood, but isn't SWR the percentage you can safely draw down each year without jeopardising financial independence?

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penny wrote:As someone new to ERE, I am finding this tricky. Perhaps I've misunderstood, but isn't SWR the percentage you can safely draw down each year without jeopardising financial independence?
In theory. But then a totally safe withdrawal rate (other than a histoical one) is a myth anyway, so although 4% is more realistic than 23.5% for sustainability, neither are necessarily SWRs as such. To allow numbers like mine, I guess you'd have to extend the definitition to something along the lines of "the returns you'd need to cover your withdrawals".

P.S. Update: My "SWR" is now 12%

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Thanks for your reply egg. How do you arrive at 23.5% and 12%? Are these figures actual draw down or returns made in a given year? Like I said, this is new to me so any insight is appreciated.

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penny wrote:Thanks for your reply egg. How do you arrive at 23.5% and 12%? Are these figures actual draw down or returns made in a given year? Like I said, this is new to me so any insight is appreciated.
Expenses/Assets * 100.

I personally look at my expenses over the course of a year. One area where I think you could trick yourself is to underestimate your expenses. So you could be really cheap for a week and use your current weeks expenses * 52 / total assets and give yourself a false picture. You could also not take into account future expenses such as health care.

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steveo73 wrote:
penny wrote:Thanks for your reply egg. How do you arrive at 23.5% and 12%? Are these figures actual draw down or returns made in a given year? Like I said, this is new to me so any insight is appreciated.
Expenses/Assets * 100.

I personally look at my expenses over the course of a year. One area where I think you could trick yourself is to underestimate your expenses. So you could be really cheap for a week and use your current weeks expenses * 52 / total assets and give yourself a false picture. You could also not take into account future expenses such as health care.
Thanks steveo73

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Depending on how I estimate living costs per year, the new 2015 figures (this is for a couple):
* Basic living cost (good life, but not much travel budget) => SWR = 1.4%
* Very comfortable (good life, but more travel budget or more health coverage when older ) => SWR = 2.4%
* Easy living (enough buffer to allow flexible way of living) => SWR = 4.2%

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I'm below 15% now. That feels significant to me. I think the next point will be 10% or less.

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@steveo73--Is that based on your current spending level, or a post-kid retirement budget? I'm just curious how people are calculating their number.

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jennypenny wrote:@steveo73--Is that based on your current spending level, or a post-kid retirement budget? I'm just curious how people are calculating their number.
Current spending level. I assume my spending could drop in retirement but its not that clear cut because I will still be supporting kids.

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@Henk: very, very nice. Now the market goes up and down, so your exact numbers will change a bit from time to time, but it looks like you've got this one covered :-)

@steveo, looking back to March it was 21.5%, so yes, that's an impressive change. Nice, keep it up!

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2014 -- 9%
2015 -- 7%

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Start of Year Portfolio Expenses SWR
2011 SWR $20,000.00 $24,000.00 120.00%
2012 SWR $30,000.00 $24,000.00 80.00%
2013 SWR $40,000.00 $24,000.00 60.00%
2014 SWR $60,000.00 $22,000.00 36.67%
2015 SWR $80,000.00 $18,800.00 23.50%
2016 SWR $141,000.00 $20,500.00 14.54%
2017 SWR $200,000.00 $20,500.00 10.25% - Predicted

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2013 - 8%

2014 - 4%

2015 - 3%

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2011: infinite
2012: 76%
2013: 28%
2014: 12%
2015: 8.4%* **

*now calculated to exclude market fluctuations using formula book value * 11% * PE ratio of 15 (Alternate formula, market value *(average PE10/current PE10)

**anticipated to drop to 4% - 6% this year due to 'lifestyle arbitrage' :)

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Nice, JL, you're getting close. And that within just a few years.

And to me it seems like FRx, you're there - also pretty amazing to get from 4% to 3% in one year, either a lot of growth of your assets, or a reduction of expenses, or a bit of both. Anyway: impressive.

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Currently 2.53%. I pay full price for health insurance right now, so that number would go down if I quit my part time job and my income went down to an amount where I could get a subsidy.

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