Meeting Income Needs in Retirement

Simon Barcelon

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20 Jun 2023

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We designed the Longevity Pension Fund to help investors reach their retirement goals by optimizing their income without the risk of fully depleting their assets. Each investor has their own unique circumstances and preferences that might indicate what portion of their portfolio they would benefit from allocating to the Longevity Pension Fund. Given the need for ongoing liquidity throughout retirement, we never recommend investing 100% of a portfolio into the Fund.

It's very important to first build a retirement plan and identify your overall goals and objectives. This will help provide you with a positive outlook on retirement and help determine how much you might consider allocating to the Longevity Pension Fund. The following table shows a general overview of different retirement goals and the respective allocation range to the Longevity Pension Fund to consider:

Retirement Goals

Longevity allocation

Case Study: Fiona

Fiona is a 65-year-old with $1,000,000 in financial assets in a balanced investment portfolio. When considering what she would like from her retirement, she wants to spend her savings to reach her retirement goals, while leaving an inheritance is not as important to her (i.e., Income Tilt).

Based on these goals, Fiona could reallocate 40% ($400,000) of her portfolio into Longevity, providing her with a monthly cash flow for as long as she lives. By incorporating Longevity into her portfolio, her ability to spend with confidence increases significantly while also helping her preserve the balance of her portfolio for her estate.

Financial planning steps
For illustrative purposes only and is not indicative of expected or guaranteed performance by the Fund.

portfolio allocation
For illustrative purposes only and is not indicative of expected or guaranteed performance by the Fund.

long term without LongevityFor illustrative purposes only and is not indicative of expected or guaranteed performance by the Fund.

Investment portfolio with the Longevity Pension Fund
For illustrative purposes only and is not indicative of expected or guaranteed performance by the Fund.

As you can see from the chart above, Fiona can expect to cover her basic income needs for life, giving her the confidence to spend to reach her goals. This peace of mind can help her weather the volatility she might experience in other areas of her portfolio.

The Bottom Line

The portion of a portfolio allocated to Longevity varies with each unique situation, preferences, and retirement plan. Still, as you can see above, the Longevity Pension Fund can help optimize the level of income you can sustainably draw in retirement to reach your goals while addressing the possibility of longer lifespans and managing market risk by investing in a balanced and globally diversified portfolio with historically low volatility.


The charts above are for illustrative purposes only and are not indicative of expected or guaranteed performance by the Fund. In no circumstances should they be considered investment advice or interpreted as predictive of the potential performance of their investment.

*The Longevity Pension Fund is designed to provide income for life, with an initial targeted annual income payment of 6.15% for a 65-year-old individual. The payments are designed to increase over the long term; however, they may go up or down to reflect the performance of the underlying investments and other factors, such as the mortality experience of the cohort. Income in the form of Fund distributions is not guaranteed, and the frequency and amount of distributions may increase or decrease.

**Case study assumptions: Annual CPP amount is $8,400, and OAS is $7,600; income is adjusted for 2% inflation. The Longevity Pension Fund and traditional portfolio investment returns are based on the growth of $10,000 and total distributions received over the first 20 years, using the LifeWorks Economic Scenario Generator model - a dataset of 2,000 potential market outcomes, and align with the approximate 50th percentile scenario. The CPM2014 public sector mortality table with the MI-2017 improvement scale was used to calculate the probability of Fiona being alive when assets are depleted

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