No way. The matching funds and tax deferments >>> any portfolio you can come up with.
Not necessarily. There's two assumptions here... one which is that I would be investing my money totally in securities, which is not true. But that opens up a whole lot of variables, so we'll go into the idea that a portfolio individually managed cannot outperform a 401k based on tax deferments and matching funds.
Seth Klarman, the founder of the Baupost Group private hedgefund, and author of Margin of Safety (A great book) has been making on average 20% per year since 1982. I'm not saying I can do that, but if you took your 67 and invested it with Klarman, who is NO fluke, you would have how much?
*Back after doing the math*
In 10 years you would have had 342 thousand dollars. I'm not saying that you should call Klarman, or that you should do this or that, or anything. All I'm asking is for you to consider the very real possibilities of much greater than 401k returns in a low risk investment pool. This is basically the purpose of hedgefunds and PE groups.
You'd be 42-43 with 342 thousand dollars in the bank theoretically, I highly doubt you're going back to work
