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Billy
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glide path?

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Hi - it appears that FRP doesn't support a glide path option. Does it? If so, how do I engage it?
Thanks!
jimr
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Re: glide path?

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By glide path, I'm assuming you're referring to having a gradual reduction in the retirement portfolio's risk profile throughout the retirement portion of the plan. The planner doesn't have any specific support for this type of automatic portfolio adjustment, however, you can get a decent approximation by using the upper table in the additional inputs window to create multiple "Portfolio Return" entries, each entry having its own average return and standard deviation, and covering a different range of years.

For example, if you're retiring at age 65 and your plan goes out to age 95, you could create 3 Portfolio Return entries in additional inputs each covering a 10 year span of the 30 years of retirement. The average return and standard deviation values you'd use for each entry should reflect the average of the return/std deviation you expect across that section of the glide path. If you'd like more resolution than one adjustment every 10 years in the glide path, you could create 6 entries each covering a 5 year span, or 10 entries each covering 3 years.

It's up to you to figure out the best values to use for portfolio return and standard deviation in each section of this rough glide path to match the expected risk profile of your actual investment plan.

Finally, be sure to check out the detailed view window after you run the planner to ensure that the return/std deviation used for each year is what you intended and there were no typos when you set things up.

Does that make sense?
Billy
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Re: glide path?

Post by Billy »

makes sense! Thanks so much for the quick reply!
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