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In the first article of this series, I described the only three retirement outcomes that exist. In the second, I explored the most painful of them—running out of money before you run out of life, a failure born not of bad luck but of misaligned decisions around saving, equity ownership, and spending.
This article is about the second outcome.
It’s the one most successful retirements occupy.
It’s the one that works most of the time.
And it’s the one that quietly demands the most humility.
...After nearly thirty years in the business of retirement income planning, I’ve learned something that surprises people when they hear it plainly: There are only three possible retirement outcomes.
Not three hundred. Not one for every market forecast or economic regime. Not one for each new financial product or political headline. Just three.
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