what you pass on

Retire comfortably and pass on over $2M, even if you start in the worst year since 1871.

Start the ordinary-career plan in 1907, the unluckiest year in the data, and it still passes on $2.4M in today's money. Start it in the middle case and it passes on $5.76M.

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Slide 1 of 6: Retire comfortably and pass on over $2M, even if you start in the worst year since 1871.

Slide 2 of 6: Worst, middle and best of 81 cases since 1871.

Slide 3 of 6: Two crashes and a war before the plan was ten years old.

Slide 4 of 6: The floor is the number to plan against. On this plan, the floor is $2.4M.

Slide 5 of 6: Save this for the day the market scares you.

Slide 6 of 6: Retire comfortably and pass on over $2M, even if you start in the worst year since 1871.

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Retire Plan

Type in one paycheck and it runs your plan through every year of market history since 1871, with the taxes worked out. About three minutes, in the browser.

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Sources: Backtest of the example plan through every year of history since 1871. Nine cases in ten pass on more than $3.03M..

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