I wouldn’t use the most aggressive numbers on that, I’d plan for 5 percent. Which is 20 million but then you also have capital gains tax. After which you’ll have 15 million a year instead of 14 million a year. The annuity also generally comes with a larger total payout though. So in reality it’ll be higher than 14 million.
So yes you can get lucky in the stock market to beat an annuity, but that’s not the reason people get told to take the lump sum. Most lottery payouts are 100k or less and 10k a year isn’t going to do much, while 100k starts a retirement fund. Once you’re high enough that the annuity itself is “quit your job money” it flips. Then if you screw up you know you’re getting back on your feet next January.
Those aren’t the aggressive numbers though, that was the market average. So hoping for 5% is a little low but I understand it is always good to be skeptical. Any way we look at it though, it’s fuck you amounts of money haha. When someone says what’s your budget this month and their answer is “I mean I don’t really want to spend over a million…”. You know that guy really doesn’t need to check the price of eggs that week.
I wouldn’t use the most aggressive numbers on that, I’d plan for 5 percent. Which is 20 million but then you also have capital gains tax. After which you’ll have 15 million a year instead of 14 million a year. The annuity also generally comes with a larger total payout though. So in reality it’ll be higher than 14 million.
So yes you can get lucky in the stock market to beat an annuity, but that’s not the reason people get told to take the lump sum. Most lottery payouts are 100k or less and 10k a year isn’t going to do much, while 100k starts a retirement fund. Once you’re high enough that the annuity itself is “quit your job money” it flips. Then if you screw up you know you’re getting back on your feet next January.
Those aren’t the aggressive numbers though, that was the market average. So hoping for 5% is a little low but I understand it is always good to be skeptical. Any way we look at it though, it’s fuck you amounts of money haha. When someone says what’s your budget this month and their answer is “I mean I don’t really want to spend over a million…”. You know that guy really doesn’t need to check the price of eggs that week.