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Old 06-03-2008, 11:19 AM
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Default How much would it take for you to retire now?

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Originally Posted by sweeps View Post
That would make for a good thread topic. How much would it take for you to retire right this minute. I think it would be $3 million for me.
This question came up in another thread. Assuming you would want to retire early, how much would you need to have right now in order to do so?

I said $4 million. Retiring at 43, I would want to be conservative and not draw more than 3% from my portfolio, at least in the early years. That would give me $120,000 which should be just fine. This assumes that my wife would stop working as well.
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