All Weather Portfolio: 50-year retirement

Last Update: 30 November 2024

Do you have in mind a 50 years retirement, investing in the Ray Dalio All Weather Portfolio?

Worst case scenario so far, over a 50-year time horizon, you could have withdrawn 2.621% of your initial capital each year, kept withdrawing all the time (adjusting for inflation), and you wouldn't have run out of money before 50 years.

With a 4% withdrawal strategy, you would have lived on your investiment for 50 years in the 34.7% of cases. In the 18.03% 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 50 years of the Ray Dalio All Weather Portfolio

Over the last 50 years (last update: November 2024), the portfolio has returned 8.85% annualized, with a maximum drawdown of -20.75%.

A safe withdrawal rate would have been 5.376%.

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(%)
50 Years 1 Dec 1974
 30 Nov 2024 4.902 5.376 8.85
[ 4.98 ] 		-20.75
Jan 2022 - Sep 2022
Simulations are calculated with actual returns of Ray Dalio All Weather 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 Ray Dalio All Weather Portfolio page.

Withdrawal Rates Simulation (updated at Nov 2024)

How much would it be an acceptable withdrawal rate, for the Ray Dalio All Weather Portfolio?

Analyzing the available data source, all the 50-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) 		1.817
Jul 1901 		2.026
Feb 1937 		2.224
Feb 1937 		2.423
Feb 1937 		2.621
Feb 1937
95%
 1.997
 2.227
 2.440
 2.630
 2.836
90%
 2.121
 2.334
 2.540
 2.753
 2.952
80%
 2.326
 2.533
 2.743
 2.954
 3.161
50%
Median WR 		3.139
 3.287
 3.425
 3.578
 3.712
Only 1 case
Best Period (From) 		6.113
Jun 1920 		6.392
Jun 1920 		6.671
Jun 1920 		6.950
Jun 1920 		7.229
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) 		1.823
Dec 1936 		2.026
Feb 1937 		2.224
Feb 1937 		2.423
Feb 1937 		2.621
Feb 1937
95%
 1.972
 2.183
 2.376
 2.579
 2.773
90%
 2.051
 2.272
 2.483
 2.668
 2.857
80%
 2.347
 2.555
 2.751
 2.975
 3.182
50%
Median WR 		3.199
 3.321
 3.461
 3.610
 3.741
Only 1 case
Best Period (From) 		5.308
Oct 1974 		5.426
Oct 1974 		5.544
Oct 1974 		5.662
Oct 1974 		5.780
Oct 1974
Simulations are calculated with actual returns of Ray Dalio All Weather 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 Ray Dalio All Weather Portfolio, over 50 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 50-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 50 Years
% Fail
% Success over 50 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
0.00
100.00
100.00
100.00
94.71
2.50 %
100.00
100% Succ.
2.621% 		0.00
99.52
91.99
82.05
72.20
3.00 %
88.70
80% Succ.
3.161% 		11.30
76.68
66.27
62.42
54.73
3.50 %
62.42
50% Succ.
3.712% 		37.58
55.29
44.63
35.42
30.37
4.00 %
34.70
65.30
30.29
27.32
22.60
18.03
4.50 %
24.76
75.24
19.95
16.67
14.26
11.46
5.00 %
15.87
84.13
13.38
10.34
8.49
6.57
5.50 %
9.54
90.46
8.01
6.73
5.13
3.37
6.00 %
6.57
93.43
5.45
3.85
1.52
0.24
6.50 %
4.25
95.75
2.08
0.24
0.00
0.00
7.00 %
0.48
99.52
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 50 Years
% Fail
% Success over 50 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
0.00
100.00
100.00
100.00
92.35
2.50 %
100.00
100% Succ.
2.621% 		0.00
99.00
89.18
80.87
76.87
3.00 %
86.36
80% Succ.
3.182% 		13.64
78.04
73.38
70.05
61.56
3.50 %
69.05
50% Succ.
3.741% 		30.95
62.40
45.59
30.12
22.30
4.00 %
27.79
72.21
20.30
17.47
14.48
9.32
4.50 %
14.31
85.69
10.48
7.15
3.66
2.66
5.00 %
5.82
94.18
2.00
1.33
1.00
0.33
5.50 %
0.33
99.67
0.17
0.17
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 Ray Dalio All Weather 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

Portfolio Main Page:
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For the Ray Dalio All Weather Portfolio, we have prepared a report for each available timeframe:
10-Year    20-Year    30-Year    40-Year    50-Year    60-Year    70-Year    80-Year   

if you want to learn more about the statistics of a specific withdrawal rate, we suggest these in particular:
2%    2.5%    3%    3.5%    4%    4.5%    5%   

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