Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 13:36:52 -0500
From: "Chris Cowles" 
Newsgroups: misc.invest.financial-plan
Subject: post-retirement target return?
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Can someone suggest what I should target as a reasonably achievable target 
return, post-retirement? Clearly I should be more conservative by that time 
(17 years away) but also just as clearly, I'm not going to put my money in 
CDs or I'll be eating cat food before my demise. I expect to live 30 years 
post-retirement.

Is 7% a reasonable expectation? 6.5? 7.5?

I'm reasonably tolerant of risk and don't create new a new allocation scheme 
at the first sign of a downturn. That said, though, I'll be more comfortable 
with stable investments at that time.

Thanks in advance.
-- 
Chris Cowles
Gainesville, FL