Bill Bengen, the creator of the 4% rule, shared eight customizable elements every retiree should consider when creating a ...

I'm talking to Bill Bengan. He is the author of a soon to be published book called A Richer Retirement Supercharging the 4% Rule to Spend more and Enjoy More. Bill, uh, when we left off ...

Some people might say that the 4% rule is too aggressive for today's interest rate environment (though not unreasonably so). In fact, Morningstar estimated 3.7% as an optimal retirement withdrawal ...

grinding it out and dreaming of the days I can ignore my emails and enjoy a good book with a margarita on the beach. Planning for retirement can be complex, but when I came across the 4% rule, it ...

For decades, the 4% rule has served as a widely accepted guideline for retirees seeking to ensure their savings last throughout retirement.

For instance, if you want to spend $10k/mo in retirement, that comes to $120k per year. Using the 4% rule, you would need a $3 million portfolio to withdraw $120k per year. The idea behind the 4% ...

When financial adviser William Bengen invented the 4% rule for retirement planning, the TV show “Friends” had just debuted. The rule provides a general guideline for how much to withdraw in ...

How much money can you safely withdraw from your investment portfolio each year during retirement? One answer comes from a financial adviser who 30 years ago weighed the past performance of the ...

Thirty-one years later, Bengen — whose upcoming book, "A Richer Retirement: Supercharging the 4% Rule to Spend More and Enjoy More," is set to be published later this year — now believes ...