How to Calculate Your Retirement Number

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At least the author uses a 4% rate of return, which although not entirely realistic these days, is certainly more grounded in reality than a lot of similar articles. It's easy to predict a cheerful outcome when you calculate using 10% and 12% average annual rates of return.

Darren of GA 3:48PM November 17, 2011

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