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When It Comes To Your Retirement, $2 Million May Be The New $1 Million
Business Insider ^ | 04/29/2014 | Libby Kane

Posted on 04/29/2014 9:09:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

A million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? Two million.

That's according to a recent USA Today article, which claims that having $1 million saved for retirement might not cut it.

"The new $1 million may be $2 million," it says.

Financial professionals explain that $1 million of retirement savings translates to $40,000-$50,000 annually once you've bowed out of the workforce. Sure, someone could live on that, but the question is: could you?

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: retirement
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1 posted on 04/29/2014 9:09:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I have thought this for some time.


2 posted on 04/29/2014 9:10:49 AM PDT by LS ('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
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To: SeekAndFind

Well I have at least that much already invested in Social Security, so I’m not worried.

(Do I really need the tag?)


3 posted on 04/29/2014 9:13:58 AM PDT by henkster
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To: SeekAndFind

I could live quite well on 40 /50,000


4 posted on 04/29/2014 9:16:50 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: CGASMIA68

Today, yes. Not ten years from now.


5 posted on 04/29/2014 9:17:55 AM PDT by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: LS

of course, my one million saved isn’t enough, so im still working...


6 posted on 04/29/2014 9:17:58 AM PDT by VAFreedom (maybe i should take a nap before work)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yep, that’s the truly evil thing about big govt and inflation. They not only steal from your current and future earnings, but from your life’s savings. A swift kick in the balls for doing the right thing all your life.

Debt ceiling whores are nothing more than common thieves, but on a much larger scale. Madoff was an amateur. They all belong in prison, or hanging from ropes.


7 posted on 04/29/2014 9:18:37 AM PDT by Mich Patriot (Pitch black is the new "tranparent.")
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To: CGASMIA68

With my house paid off and my youngest finished with school, I could do well on $40k.


8 posted on 04/29/2014 9:19:33 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: saganite

Sorry but its all about the lifestyle one chooses


9 posted on 04/29/2014 9:19:43 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: CGASMIA68

RE: I could live quite well on 40 /50,000

Well, at least I know one thing — You don’t live in New York.... :)


10 posted on 04/29/2014 9:20:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: SeekAndFind

A big part of the reason why retirees will need so much more capital to live off in their retirement is the way the Federal Reserve has warped the yield curve to bail out the banking sector.

The Japanese learned this the hard way. Mrs. Wantanabe had to turn to speculation in the FX market to make up for their ZIRP.


11 posted on 04/29/2014 9:26:05 AM PDT by NVDave
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To: SeekAndFind

Most people, even moderately high income people, will have a very, very hard time saving $2 million for retirement under the current tax policies. At least in the 80s and 90s, you could hope the market raised your investments to a decent level. Now you can’t even hope for that. When we talk about robbing the future for current consumption, this is another example.


12 posted on 04/29/2014 9:30:13 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: SeekAndFind

People should be taking their potential retirement and reviewing it every year or so.

Take private pensions (some of us still have them.) Take your social security and your 401(k)S.

Add them all up and subtract your expenses. Will you have car payments or mortgage payments? Will you still be spending as much on insurance, or healthcare (we know the answer to THAT!)

I have been doing that every quarter since I started working. To date, my wife and I will be in good shape when we get to 62 years old.

Getting there, 11 years for us, is going to be the problem!


13 posted on 04/29/2014 9:30:39 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
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To: Vermont Lt

I guess my point, is that if you have NO OTHER retirment you need far less than $2 million in cash. You need $2 million worth of retirement.

Of course, you need to adjust for inflation and what not.

But if you have been moderately prudent, you will be better off than our parents.

The key is to keep your eye on the ball. You do NOT need that third TV in the house. You do NOT need pizza a second night of the week.


14 posted on 04/29/2014 9:32:39 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“All your 401k are belong to us” is the new 1 million.


15 posted on 04/29/2014 9:35:55 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: SeekAndFind
USA Today article, which claims that having $1 million saved for retirement might not cut it.
There are so many life-style choices that affect a quality retirement that make this statement just total BS.
When I was still working (retired 2007), I kept on hearing that I needed 80% of my paycheck to "survive" retirement.
Well, that turned out to be BS too. Probably the biggest single "success" factor for me was paying off my mortgage 10 years before retiring.
16 posted on 04/29/2014 9:45:44 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Exactly. If you have no debt, and if you are supplementing your retirement income from savings with social security, you can live quite nicely on $1M.


17 posted on 04/29/2014 9:48:45 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m not clear on whether the thrust of the article is (1) withdrawing $40-50,000 per year out of the corpus of the one or two million dollar nest egg; or (2) living off the dividends/interest from the principal amount, while keeping the principal essentially intact for the retiree’ heirs.


18 posted on 04/29/2014 9:59:04 AM PDT by Salvey
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To: SeekAndFind

Those of us who were unfortunate enough to work in the private sector all our lives will have to work til we die. We’ll be waiting tables for all the public sector retirees who are living high on the hog.


19 posted on 04/29/2014 10:03:16 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: CGASMIA68

You will be choosing an extremely limited lifestyle then.


20 posted on 04/29/2014 10:10:29 AM PDT by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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