The shockingly un-simple math behind retirement safe withdrawal rates, with Karsten Jeske, PhD (Part 2)

#36: Last week, we dove headlong into the wonky but uber-crucial topic of retirement safe withdrawal rates. My conversation with Karsten Jeske, PhD – a former professor, Fed economist, quantitative finance researcher, and early retiree – focused last week on sequence of returns risk and how to estimate your safe withdrawal rate in early retirement. Our conversation was so action-packed that I had to break it up into two episodes, so this week we continue our discussion and focus on how to mit...

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