Guidelines for Projecting Retirement Savings

One of the challenges of retirement planning is projecting how much money you will have in the future. For those of us who are many years away from retirement, this a big uncertainty. We can use various tools and calculators, but they often rely on us making assumptions.

Long-term historical returns are arguably better for projecting how much in retirement savings you will have accumulated than uneducated guesses and forecasts dependent on a specific set of events occurring. Read more...


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