US Stocks/Bonds 0/100 Portfolio: 40-year retirement

Last Update: 31 March 2025

Do you have in mind a 40 years retirement, investing in the US Stocks/Bonds 0/100 Portfolio?

Worst case scenario so far, over a 40-year time horizon, you could have withdrawn 1.834% of your initial capital each year, kept withdrawing all the time (adjusting for inflation), and you wouldn't have run out of money before 40 years.

With a 4% withdrawal strategy, you would have lived on your investiment for 40 years in the 30.1% of cases. In the 10.5% 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 40 years of the US Stocks/Bonds 0/100 Portfolio

Over the last 40 years (last update: March 2025), the portfolio has returned 5.67% annualized, with a maximum drawdown of -17.28%.

A safe withdrawal rate would have been 5.732%.

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 Mar 2025
Withdrawal Rate (%)
Investment Performances
Timeframe Period from Period to Perpetual Safe Ann.Return(%)
[ Infl.Adj. ]		 Max
Drawdown(%)
40 Years 1 Apr 1985
 31 Mar 2025 3.835 5.732 5.67
[ 2.80 ] 		-17.28
Aug 2020 - Oct 2022
Simulations are calculated with actual returns of US Stocks/Bonds 0/100 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 | Inflation is updated at March 2025

For a complete view of the portfolio and all the possible strategies, please refer to US Stocks/Bonds 0/100 Portfolio page.

Withdrawal Rates Simulation (updated at Mar 2025)

How much would it be an acceptable withdrawal rate, for the US Stocks/Bonds 0/100 Portfolio?

Analyzing the available data source, all the 40-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 - Mar 2025
Period: Apr 1925 - Mar 2025
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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) 		0.000
Feb 1933 		0.000
Nov 1938 		0.157
Sep 1941 		1.008
Aug 1941 		1.834
Feb 1941
95%
 0.000
 0.233
 0.875
 1.490
 2.068
90%
 0.000
 0.480
 1.050
 1.611
 2.259
80%
 1.010
 1.482
 1.975
 2.416
 2.787
50%
Median WR 		1.796
 2.194
 2.576
 2.909
 3.273
Only 1 case
Best Period (From) 		6.738
Mar 1873 		7.071
Mar 1873 		7.403
Mar 1873 		7.736
Mar 1873 		8.070
Feb 1873
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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) 		0.000
Feb 1933 		0.000
Nov 1938 		0.157
Sep 1941 		1.008
Aug 1941 		1.834
Feb 1941
95%
 0.000
 0.000
 0.556
 1.284
 1.997
90%
 0.000
 0.243
 0.884
 1.493
 2.073
80%
 0.000
 0.511
 1.085
 1.644
 2.290
50%
Median WR 		1.744
 2.136
 2.553
 2.829
 3.101
Only 1 case
Best Period (From) 		6.422
Sep 1981 		6.748
Sep 1981 		7.074
Sep 1981 		7.400
Sep 1981 		7.726
Sep 1981
Simulations are calculated with actual returns of US Stocks/Bonds 0/100 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 | Inflation is updated at March 2025

Withdrawals and Success Rate

If you had implemented a specific Withdrawal Strategy with the US Stocks/Bonds 0/100 Portfolio, over 40 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 40-year timeframes available in the data source. To focus on a specific withdrawal rate, click on the links in the table.

Period: Jan 1871 - Mar 2025
Period: Apr 1925 - Mar 2025
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Withdrawal
Rate
% Success over 40 Years
% Fail
% Success over 40 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 %
97.30
95% Succ.
2.068% 		2.70
87.24
79.01
61.08
39.80
2.50 %
87.10
80% Succ.
2.787% 		12.90
75.29
55.25
32.87
24.56
3.00 %
69.39
50% Succ.
3.273% 		30.61
46.50
32.51
22.52
17.57
3.50 %
43.59
56.41
31.05
21.79
17.49
12.68
4.00 %
30.10
69.90
22.45
15.23
12.17
10.50
4.50 %
20.63
79.37
15.23
11.88
9.77
7.43
5.00 %
15.31
84.69
11.59
9.33
7.14
5.90
5.50 %
11.30
88.70
9.04
6.56
5.69
4.81
6.00 %
8.24
91.76
6.12
5.17
3.50
2.33
6.50 %
5.69
94.31
4.52
2.70
1.90
0.36
7.00 %
3.50
96.50
2.11
1.17
0.22
0.00
7.50 %
1.68
98.32
0.36
0.00
0.00
0.00
8.00 %
0.22
99.78
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 40 Years
% Fail
% Success over 40 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 %
94.87
90% Succ.
2.073% 		5.13
75.73
66.57
54.23
43.27
2.50 %
75.45
24.55
64.91
52.98
29.82
27.05
3.00 %
57.70
50% Succ.
3.101% 		42.30
39.81
28.02
22.05
18.59
3.50 %
35.78
64.22
24.13
18.86
17.75
12.21
4.00 %
21.78
78.22
18.03
12.76
11.37
9.43
4.50 %
13.59
86.41
11.65
10.68
8.32
5.27
5.00 %
10.96
89.04
9.99
8.04
4.99
3.74
5.50 %
9.43
90.57
7.63
4.30
3.61
2.77
6.00 %
6.52
93.48
3.88
3.33
1.53
0.42
6.50 %
3.61
96.39
2.64
0.83
0.42
0.00
7.00 %
1.80
98.20
0.42
0.28
0.00
0.00
7.50 %
0.28
99.72
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 US Stocks/Bonds 0/100 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 | Inflation is updated at March 2025

Related Pages

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For the US Stocks/Bonds 0/100 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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