Flexible Retirement Planner Support Forum

I like to use a tool developed by someone on the Bogleheads.org forum called Simba's backtesting spreadsheet Dang! I searched for such a spreadsheet before learning how to build my own. But the exercise helped my understand the importance of standard deviation in a portfolio. Thanks for all the info.

I'm right at retirement, age 62, and want to fine tune my portfolio model by entering actual return average and standard deviation specific to my portfolio. I learned how to make the appropriate calculations but have two questions; 1) In my situation, how many years of historical data should be used...

Thanks for the quick and detailed response Jim, its amazing to see how different scenarios play out.

Hi, I just installed this program and learning about all its features. Without going into its advanced features yet (Additional Inputs), I ran just a simple scenario, entered all the information on the Summary View screen including planned expenses and SS and ran the analysis. A couple observations ...