Download This PaperSustainable Withdrawal Rates from Retirement Portfolios: The Historical Evidence on Buffer Zone Strategies
16 Pages Posted: 6 Dec 2011
Date Written: December 6, 2011
Abstract
This paper evaluates the performance of portfolios that dynamically adjust one’s mix of risky and risk-free assets during retirement based on the performance of risky assets. We analyze these “buffer zone” portfolio decumulation strategies over various time periods from 1926 to 2009. We find that they are generally inferior to a simpler static asset allocation at minimizing longevity risk.
Keywords: Buffer Zone, Retirement Planning, Decumulation
JEL Classification: G11
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Woerheide, Walter J. and Nanigian, David, Sustainable Withdrawal Rates from Retirement Portfolios: The Historical Evidence on Buffer Zone Strategies (December 6, 2011). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1969021 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1969021
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