Do retirees need to cut withdrawals?

Published Updated 3 Min Read

Many people who retired in 2000 thought they were in great shape: over the last 20 years, stocks returned 17.8% on average.

More modest returns were expected for the next decade, but few would have bet stocks would actually go down—that had occurred only about 5% of the time over rolling 10-year periods since 1926. Then came two ferocious bear markets.

Temma Ehrenfeld
Former senior editor

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