“Everyone knows that when you make an assumption, you make an ass out of 'u' and 'umption'.” Mitch Henessey - The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)
Samuel L. Jackson's character, Mitch Henessey, had a memorable line in the movie A Long Kiss Goodnight that cleverly conveys the risks associated with making assumptions. In the complex world of retirement planning, we often deal with those hazards as we rely on various expectations of the future to chart possible financial outcomes.