Flexible Retirement Planner Support Forum

If I specify a time period in the planner, let's say a 30 year plan length age 65 to age 95, what does this really mean? Doesn't that carry me right until my 96th birthday? Why would I think that? Because 65 would specify the year from the moment I turn 65 and then the entire year following, until ...

I think if you ask 5 people how to do this you'll likely get 5 answers. I like to use a tool developed by someone on the Bogleheads.org forum called Simba's backtesting spreadsheet. The spreadsheet has historical returns for lots index funds that track common asset classes. You can enter your portfo...

Thanks for clarifying this. I was afraid I had missed a rules change or something.

There probably are some people still receiving earned income after their RMDs start, but I'd guess it's not a super likely situation.

There isn't a straightforward workaround for this unless you're not using the taxable portfolio for anything else. If only the RMDs are in the taxable portfolio, you can set the investment tax rate to zero. But I'm confused about why you don't want the gains that the RMD earns to be taxed. I didn't ...

Any RMDs that don't get used for expenses are automatically added to the taxable portfolio. Since the taxable portfolio is carried at a 100% cost basis,withdrawals from this portfolio are tax free. To keep the tax basis of the taxable portfolio at 100%, portfolio gains are taxed fully in the year th...

Unfortunately this isn't something that the planner can easily support and it's not something that's likely to be added in the future.

I haven't done a check of the competition in a while, but maybe there's another retirement planner that would be a better fit, given what you're trying to do.

When you set the investing style to custom, the "Return - Average" and "Return - Std Dev" input fields below become active and can be edited directly based on the expected return and standard deviation of your portfolio.

Bumping for 04-04-02 maintenance release 01/12/2024 04.04.02 Release Notes - Added validation check for retirement age less than current age. - Fixed total_taxes_paid calculation in extended detailed view if early withdrawal penalty. - Fixed typo in run scenario button mouseover text. - Updated jre ...

It sounds like you've got a pretty good handle on things. Keeping std dev at 0 does greatly simplify the challenge. I'm not sure this is how I'd do it myself, but that's largely because my own plan uses the monte carlo and flexible spending features. For my use case what you're trying to do would be...

My sense is that this would be tricky to do correctly and I've never heard of anyone trying to use the planner this way. That said, over the years the planner has had lots of users trying lots of different things and I don't always hear about every use case. There's probably a way to adjust the inpu...