Help My Pension
Let's take a look, If you have a market loss, the positive returns you need to
get to break even.
As an example, if you have market loss of -10%,
you need +11% to get back all your money back. Say you have $1,000,000 in your retirement
account, there is -20% market performance in a year, your money will be $800,000. A $200,000
loss. The following year, market gains +20%. Will you get all your money backe? NO.
($800,000 x 20%) + 800,000 = $960,000 (still
$40,000 loss).
You Actually Need +25% market gains to break-even,
more than +25% to get into profit. So, losing money will cost you net loss and time.
Check this graph, how much returns you should get
in case of a market loss just to break even.