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- Sun Jan 05, 2020 8:27 pm
- Forum: General questions and comments
- Topic: Monte Carlo implementation in FRP
- Replies: 2
- Views: 10545
Re: Monte Carlo implementation in FRP
Got it, thanks Jim!
- Sun Jan 05, 2020 5:48 pm
- Forum: General questions and comments
- Topic: Monte Carlo implementation in FRP
- Replies: 2
- Views: 10545
Monte Carlo implementation in FRP
Hi Jim, I believe the documentation says that FRP performs 10,000 realizations. I think I've read in this forum that a new realization is drawn for each FRP plan year. Does that therefore mean that FRP performs 10,000 realizations for each plan year, and a 30 year FRP plan would therefore be the pro...
- Sun Nov 24, 2019 11:34 pm
- Forum: Problems installing and running the program
- Topic: Support for Windows 10s?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 117177
Support for Windows 10s?
Microsoft Surface books have great features, but part of their Windows 10s strategy requires that they only run Microsoft or Microsoft-approved applications. Any chance that you will get FRP approved by Microsoft so that we can run it on Surface Windows 10s platforms? FRP is a great tool and I hope ...
- Fri Jun 30, 2017 6:00 pm
- Forum: General questions and comments
- Topic: Pathological realizations among Monte Carlo results?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8866
Re: Pathological realizations among Monte Carlo results?
Got it, thanks Jim!
- Thu Jun 29, 2017 10:10 pm
- Forum: General questions and comments
- Topic: Pathological realizations among Monte Carlo results?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8866
Pathological realizations among Monte Carlo results?
Wondering if highly unlikely Monte Carlo realizations are identified and excluded from the probability of success calculation -- or if they don't occur. My expectation from Monte Carlo is that I might see an occasional multiple sigma rate of return, and maybe that would be a + or - 25% or 30% return...
- Wed Jun 14, 2017 11:29 am
- Forum: General questions and comments
- Topic: What's the right number for inflation and inflation standard deviation?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 192935
Re: What's the right number for inflation and inflation standard deviation?
Great data, thank you for the response!
- Tue Jun 13, 2017 9:21 pm
- Forum: General questions and comments
- Topic: Have FRP results been compared to other tools?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8017
Have FRP results been compared to other tools?
FRP is far and away one of the best tools I've seen. I'm sure that folks have done careful comparisons between FRP and other tools (MoneyPro? Others?) using the same inputs. What were the results? Were differences explainable? Were there certain aspects of the tools where comparisons typically did n...
- Tue Jun 13, 2017 9:15 pm
- Forum: General questions and comments
- Topic: What's the right number for inflation and inflation standard deviation?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 192935
What's the right number for inflation and inflation standard deviation?
If ever there was a question for which nobody has an answer, this is probably it. But inflation is either enemy #1 or close to it for retirement planning from what I can tell. I use an average and standard deviation of consumer price index numbers back to the early 1990s -- 2.7% average and 1.1% sta...
- Tue Jun 13, 2017 8:57 pm
- Forum: General questions and comments
- Topic: Social Security consideration
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5922
Re: Social Security consideration
Thank you for the response FRPJunkie! Folks are probably wondering why I'm behaving cynically about whether or not the USG really provides a COLA that consistently helps to alleviate the degradation of their SS benefit. The reason is that, as most folks are keenly aware, SS is one of the few pension...
- Mon Jun 12, 2017 11:23 pm
- Forum: General questions and comments
- Topic: Social Security consideration
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5922
Social Security consideration
I would expect it to do the flexible retirement planner considers Social Security income and increases it with a cost-of-living an allowance. The flexible retirement planner increases the social security benefit both before it is actually taken and after. At least this is what I think I see in the d...