Desert Portfolio: 80-year retirement

Last Update: 30 November 2024

Do you have in mind a 80 years retirement, investing in the Gyroscopic Investing Desert Portfolio?

Worst case scenario so far, over a 80-year time horizon, you could have withdrawn 2.431% of your initial capital each year, kept withdrawing all the time (adjusting for inflation), and you wouldn't have run out of money before 80 years.

With a 4% withdrawal strategy, you would have lived on your investiment for 80 years in the 27.7% of cases. In the 22.86% of cases, you would have preserved your initial inflation adjusted capital.

According to the historical returns and stats of the portfolio, which has been a sustainable withdrawal rate to live off your investiment?

The last 80 years of the Gyroscopic Investing Desert Portfolio

Over the last 80 years (last update: November 2024), the portfolio has returned 7.38% annualized, with a maximum drawdown of -14.7%.

A safe withdrawal rate would have been 2.997%.

The Withdrawal Rates calculated here are annualized and refer to the initial capital (not the current!). The first month withdrawal is 1/12 of that annualized withdrawal and it's adjusted for inflation for each subsequent month.

A Perpetual Withdrawal Rate (PWR) protected the original inflation adjusted capital.

A Safe Withdrawal Rate (SWR) didn't protect the original capital, but the portfolio didn't run out of money during retirement. The portfolio went to zero exaclty at the end of the retirement period.

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Timeframes ending at Nov 2024
Withdrawal Rate (%)
Investment Performances
Timeframe Period from Period to Perpetual Safe Ann.Return(%)
[ Infl.Adj. ]		 Max
Drawdown(%)
80 Years 1 Dec 1944
 30 Nov 2024 2.818 2.997 7.38
[ 3.59 ] 		-14.70
Jan 2022 - Sep 2022
Simulations are calculated with actual returns of Gyroscopic Investing Desert Portfolio | Preserved capital and withdrawals are considered adjusted for inflation | Withdrawals happen monthly | Performances are calculated in USD dollars, considering reinvestment of dividends when applicable | Portfolio is rebalanced each month | Inflation is updated at November 2024

For a complete view of the portfolio and all the possible strategies, please refer to Gyroscopic Investing Desert Portfolio page.

Withdrawal Rates Simulation (updated at Nov 2024)

How much would it be an acceptable withdrawal rate, for the Gyroscopic Investing Desert Portfolio?

Analyzing the available data source, all the 80-years timeframes have been considered to calculate the withdrawal rates and their success percentage.

Legend:
SWR 100% Success
PWR 100% Capital Protection
Period: Jan 1871 - Nov 2024
Period: Dec 1924 - Nov 2024
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WR (%) - Withdrawal Rate, on % Preserved Capital (Infl.Adj)
100%
Preserved		 75%
Preserved		 50%
Preserved		 25%
Preserved		 0%
Preserved
Success 100%
Worst Period (From) 		2.043
Jul 1901 		2.142
Jul 1901 		2.240
May 1901 		2.337
May 1901 		2.431
Feb 1937
95%
 2.265
 2.353
 2.429
 2.496
 2.556
90%
 2.369
 2.422
 2.480
 2.549
 2.616
80%
 2.468
 2.541
 2.615
 2.689
 2.760
50%
Median WR 		2.890
 2.956
 3.034
 3.104
 3.173
Only 1 case
Best Period (From) 		6.072
Jun 1920 		6.118
Jun 1920 		6.164
Jun 1920 		6.209
Jun 1920 		6.255
Jun 1920
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WR (%) - Withdrawal Rate, on % Preserved Capital (Infl.Adj)
100%
Preserved		 75%
Preserved		 50%
Preserved		 25%
Preserved		 0%
Preserved
Success 100%
Worst Period (From) 		2.252
Feb 1937 		2.297
Feb 1937 		2.341
Feb 1937 		2.386
Feb 1937 		2.431
Feb 1937
95%
 2.360
 2.404
 2.447
 2.491
 2.534
90%
 2.392
 2.435
 2.477
 2.521
 2.565
80%
 2.472
 2.516
 2.559
 2.603
 2.648
50%
Median WR 		2.836
 2.879
 2.927
 2.973
 3.020
Only 1 case
Best Period (From) 		4.333
Apr 1926 		4.382
Apr 1926 		4.430
Apr 1926 		4.479
Apr 1926 		4.528
Apr 1926
Simulations are calculated with actual returns of Gyroscopic Investing Desert Portfolio | Preserved capital and withdrawals are considered adjusted for inflation | Withdrawals happen monthly | Performances are calculated in USD dollars, considering reinvestment of dividends when applicable | Portfolio is rebalanced each month | Inflation is updated at November 2024

Withdrawals and Success Rate

If you had implemented a specific Withdrawal Strategy with the Gyroscopic Investing Desert Portfolio, over 80 years, which would have been the success rate so far?

Simulations follow the same rules mentioned before. Withdrawals are expressed as yearly rates and refer to the initial capital. After that, withdrawal amount is monthly adjusted for inflation.

Success rates are calculated over all 80-year timeframes available in the data source. To focus on a specific withdrawal rate, click on the links in the table.

Period: Jan 1871 - Nov 2024
Period: Dec 1924 - Nov 2024
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Withdrawal
Rate
% Success over 80 Years
% Fail
% Success over 80 Years - on % Preserved Capital (Infl.Adj)
At least 0%
Capital Preserved		 Percentile No Capital
Preserved		 25%
Preserved 		50%
Preserved 		75%
Preserved 		100%
Preserved
2.00 %
100.00
100% Succ.
2.431% 		0.00
100.00
100.00
100.00
100.00
2.50 %
98.09
95% Succ.
2.556% 		1.91
94.48
88.96
83.67
76.91
3.00 %
57.66
50% Succ.
3.173% 		42.34
54.28
51.24
48.09
45.50
3.50 %
40.43
59.57
38.51
37.61
36.49
35.25
4.00 %
27.70
72.30
26.91
25.45
23.87
22.86
4.50 %
18.36
81.64
17.45
16.55
15.54
14.64
5.00 %
11.04
88.96
10.25
9.80
9.12
8.90
5.50 %
6.53
93.47
5.86
4.95
4.62
4.05
6.00 %
1.35
98.65
0.90
0.56
0.23
0.23
6.50 %
0.00
100.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
7.00 %
0.00
100.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
7.50 %
0.00
100.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
8.00 %
0.00
100.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Legend: Min% of Protected Capital
Min 0%
Min 25%
Min 50%
Min 75%
Min 100%
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Withdrawal
Rate
% Success over 80 Years
% Fail
% Success over 80 Years - on % Preserved Capital (Infl.Adj)
At least 0%
Capital Preserved		 Percentile No Capital
Preserved		 25%
Preserved 		50%
Preserved 		75%
Preserved 		100%
Preserved
2.00 %
100.00
100% Succ.
2.431% 		0.00
100.00
100.00
100.00
100.00
2.50 %
97.51
95% Succ.
2.534% 		2.49
94.19
86.72
81.74
78.42
3.00 %
54.77
50% Succ.
3.020% 		45.23
48.55
46.06
45.64
42.32
3.50 %
37.76
62.24
32.78
30.29
28.22
26.56
4.00 %
15.77
84.23
15.77
14.52
12.45
12.45
4.50 %
1.66
98.34
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
5.00 %
0.00
100.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
5.50 %
0.00
100.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
6.00 %
0.00
100.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
6.50 %
0.00
100.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
7.00 %
0.00
100.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
7.50 %
0.00
100.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
8.00 %
0.00
100.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Legend: Min% of Protected Capital
Min 0%
Min 25%
Min 50%
Min 75%
Min 100%
Simulations are calculated with actual returns of Gyroscopic Investing Desert Portfolio | Preserved capital and withdrawals are considered adjusted for inflation | Withdrawals happen monthly | Performances are calculated in USD dollars, considering reinvestment of dividends when applicable | Portfolio is rebalanced each month | Inflation is updated at November 2024

Related Pages

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For the Gyroscopic Investing Desert Portfolio, we have prepared a report for each available timeframe:
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if you want to learn more about the statistics of a specific withdrawal rate, we suggest these in particular:
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