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Calculating retirement ruin probability

Usage

calc_retirement_ruin(
  portfolio_return_mean,
  portfolio_return_sd,
  age,
  gompertz_mode,
  gompertz_dispersion,
  portfolio_value,
  monthly_spendings,
  yearly_spendings = 12 * monthly_spendings,
  spending_rate = yearly_spendings/portfolio_value
)

Arguments

portfolio_return_mean

A numeric. Mean of portfolio returns.

portfolio_return_sd

A numeric. Standard deviation of portfolio returns.

age

A numeric. Current age.

gompertz_mode

A numeric. Gompertz mode.

gompertz_dispersion

A numeric. Gompertz dispersion.

portfolio_value

A numeric. Initial portfolio value.

monthly_spendings

A numeric. Monthly spendings.

yearly_spendings

A numeric. Yearly spendings.

spending_rate

A numeric. Spending rate (initial withdrawal rate).

Value

A numeric. The probability of retirement ruin (between 0 and 1), representing the likelihood of running out of money during retirement.

References

Milevsky, M.A. (2020). Retirement Income Recipes in R: From Ruin Probabilities to Intelligent Drawdowns. Use R! Series. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-51434-1 .

Examples

calc_retirement_ruin(
  age                   = 65,
  gompertz_mode         = 88,
  gompertz_dispersion   = 10,
  portfolio_value       = 1000000,
  monthly_spendings     = 3000,  
  portfolio_return_mean = 0.02,
  portfolio_return_sd   = 0.15
)
#> [1] 0.1326