What Happened Retiree? Measuring Retirement Not the Account

Frank L Day

Published on: 16/09/2026

What happened to the retiree along the way? That question completes the Retirement Survivorship Bias Test™. The first nine questions examine what disappeared, what failed, what was abandoned, what fees were paid, what withdrawals occurred during decl

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Question 9 from the Retirement Survivorship Bias Test™

Frank L Day

Published on: 15/09/2026

Did the portfolio recover while withdrawals, taxes, inflation, and expenses continued? That distinction can separate a retirement that merely looks healthy on a chart from one that continues producing income in real life.

Historical Survivorship Is Not Historical Investability

Frank L Day

Published on: 15/09/2026

Were the assets known, available, investable, and selected without hindsight at the time? That is the difference between historical survivorship and historical investability. Historical survivorship ≠ historical investability. A survivor-only backte

Q7 Abandon Strategy Cost? Missing Trail Retirement Plans

Frank L Day

Published on: 15/09/2026

That is the missing trail in retirement planning. This is Question 7 from the Retirement Survivorship Bias Test™. It asks us to inspect the entire path: not merely the strategy that survived long enough to appear successful. Read the preceding