Early retirement is a fun aspirational goal. Planning for retirement is challenging. One needs to make a set of assumptions for more than 30 years in the future.
Calculating how to generate retirement income from several accumulated income producing assets is not easy. Each of the assets would have a different expected return.
Cons:Doesn’t breakdown returns by asset classes. You can only select a blended return, which is hard to calculate if your portfolio consists of stocks, bonds, gold, etc.
The Engaging Data Post retirement calculator is unique because of the way it approaches retirement. Most calculators optimize for the scenario of not running out of money.