Early Retirement

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Early retirement poses several challenges, such as restrictions on withdrawals from tax-advantaged accounts and long retirement years. This page presents resources to those who are considering early retirement.

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Withdrawing from your portfolio

There are several ways to withdraw from your portfolio without incurring the 10% penalty applicable to retirement accounts.

  • Taxable account.
  • Substantially Equal Periodic Payments.
  • Withdrawal of contributions and conversion amounts from a Roth IRA. Note that contributions can be withdrawn penalty free at any time while a conversion amount must stay in a Roth IRA for five years since the first day of the year in which a conversion is done.
  • 457(b). Non-rollover contributions to 457(b) is exempt from the early withdrawal penalty.
  • Withdrawal from 401(k) at age 55. If you leave the company offering the 401(k) plan at age 55 or later, you do not have to pay the 10% penalty to withdrawal an amount from your 401(k). See Frequently Asked Tax Questions And Answers Keyword: 401(k) Pension Plan for details.

Safe withdrawal rates

You may need to re-evaluate safe withdrawal rates if you are retiring early. FIRECalc shows that withdrawing 4% of the initial portfolio value plus inflation adjustments in 49 subsequent years (thus total of 50 years) results in the success rate of 85.1% using the default configuration. Running the same scenario with the 3.5% initial withdrawal rate results in the success rate of 98.9%.

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