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How to Guardrails Your Early Retirement Spending
In this episode of The Financial Freedom Podcast, Lucas and Luna dive into the Guardrails Spending Rule, a dynamic withdrawal strategy that helps early retirees adjust their spending in bull and bear markets. They walk through the mechanics: a baseline withdrawal rate of 4 to 5 percent, with a 10 percent upward adjustment when the portfolio grows beyond a ceiling, and a 10 percent cut when it drops below a floor. Using a concrete example of a $1 million portfolio with a $40,000 initial withdrawal, they show how the rule would have fared during the 2022 bear market and the 2023 recovery. They…
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