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Retirement Analysis: What discount rate do you recommend for pension timing analysis?

Posted on 7/12/25 at 6:10 pm
Posted by Artificial Ignorance
Member since Feb 2025
1424 posts
Posted on 7/12/25 at 6:10 pm
Doing PV calculations:

Pension start at 3 different ages, incl. the haircuts for taking sooner.

And the corresponding impact to deferred accounts balances and estimated RMD tax beginning 75yo.

Using 5-6% discount rate. Thoughts?
This post was edited on 7/12/25 at 8:18 pm
Posted by Enadious
formerly B5Lurker City of Central
Member since Aug 2004
18493 posts
Posted on 7/12/25 at 9:30 pm to
Put it all on black and live your life no matter the consequences. Either way, nothing else will matter.
Posted by r3lay3r
EBR
Member since Oct 2016
2393 posts
Posted on 7/14/25 at 6:10 pm to
When I was retiring, I went through the exercise of writing a retirement investment simulation in Excel that did a 2000 iteration Monte Carlo statistical analysis. At the time I came up with the following inputs (I searched around, but I don't remember where I got the values. They were actual numbers over the period of the last 100 years or something.)

Annual Investment Return: 5.4%, 8.7% Std. Dev.
Annual Inflation Rate: 3.7%, 2.6% Std Dev.
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