What happens if you do an SWP from an index fund in retirement?
We examine the results of running a long-term SWP in index funds for retirement.
We examine the results of running a long-term SWP in index funds for retirement.
This article is a part of our detailed article series on Safe Withdrawal Rates. Ensure you have read the other parts here:
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All of these are standing instructions that get executed as per a schedule you specify:
In this article, we will see if you can have an SWP during retirement to fund in-retirement expenses. Here the success criterion is:
There should be multiple other income sources in a retirement portfolio like a pension plan, SCSS, Post Office MIS, RBI bonds or bank FD.
In this article we will address a common question from investors:
Can I run a SWP from an equity mutual fund in retirement?
We will add two conditions to this:
Due to the lack of data for the Indian market, we use Monte Carlo simulation using Nifty 50 Total returns index data since 1999 to model 1,000 retirement paths for SWR ranging from 1% to 5% at 0.5% intervals.
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Start | ā¹ 1,00,00,000 |
---|---|
Withdrawals ā¬ļø | ā |
Year 1 | ā¹ 2,50,000 |
Year 2 | ā¹ 2,67,500 |
Year 3 | ā¹ 2,86,225 |
Year 4 | ā¹ 3,06,261 |
Year 5 | ā¹ 3,27,699 |
We define āsuccessā as ending with a non-zero portfolio, i.e. not running out of money, after a 30-year retirement with an SWR between 1% and 5%. As per the definition of SWR, the starting portfolio value is 1/SWR. So in terms of the first yearās expenses, a 4% SWR is 1/4% = 25x expenses.
This case leaves behind a ā¹4 crores corpus for the heirs.
This case runs out of money around halfway into retirement.
We run 1,000 such simulations for each of the SWRs and calculate the number of cases where there is a non-zero portfolio value after 30 years.
Here the āNearly failedā case is equal to an ending value less than or equal to one-fourth of the starting value. Since the starting portfolio is ā¹1 crore, any ending value less than ā¹25 lakhs is a near-miss. At 7% inflation, this ā¹25 lakhs has lost its purchasing power to just ā¹3.2 lakhs in 30 years and will, depending on the SWR, pay for only a few months to a year of retirement expense in the 31st year.
The conclusion is quite clear:
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