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September 28, 2026Can you retire at 60 with $1 million? What about $1.5 million?
A single 60-year-old with $1 million could spend $4,360 a month after tax, on top of health insurance until Medicare, and it held up in every stretch of history since 1928. Here's what $1.5 million and a married couple look like.
September 28, 2026Sequence of returns risk: the same average return, two very different retirements
Same $1 million, same average return. In one order the money runs out in year 21; in reverse it ends at $1.44 million. What that did to every 30-year retirement since 1928.