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How Much Income Can Your Portfolio Safely Provide?

Retirement Readiness Bootcamp Part 3: The 4% withdrawal rule can be a good starting point to assess your portfolio’s viability.

Morningstar.com

Mar 20, 2017

Jeremy Glaser: In our first two sessions, we described how to figure out what your spending in retirement is going to be--what you can count on from Social Security, pensions, other guaranteed sources. But now we're really getting to where the rubber hits the road--is your portfolio going to be able to provide that gap between first two items. And I am here again with Christine Benz, our director of personal finance, and also with Maria Bruno, she is senior retirement strategist at Vanguard.

Thank you for joining me again.

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