The 4% rule, revisited: A more flexible approach to retirement income

In the last column, we looked at three recently published financial books, including one I had really looked forward to reading: William Bengen’s A Richer Retirement. It’s the American certified financial planner’s long-awaited follow-up to his ground-breaking book on the so-called 4% Rule.I had originally planned to focus exclusively on that book but ended up on a related project on my own site, which involved asking more than a dozen financial advisors on both sides of the bo