Re: What\'s your retirement nut?
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Being an accountant I've worked all this out in a huge Excel spreadsheet
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This isn't something that can be done in Excel. You cant think in terms of low, base, and high case. This is something that needs to be modelled, through a monte carlo simulation, based on historical data about market performance for various asset classes, and historical inflation data. For a good treatment of the problem, see the books by William Bernstein.
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