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Show HN: I made a retirement simulator: 125 years of data, 25 countries

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Re: Show HN: I made a retirement simulator: 125 years of data, 25 countries

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It will be far more interesting to show a model of how to have a successful retirement with more or less "normal" financial disasters, such as not making enough money to save in a high-COL area, losing your job in your 40s or later, followed by one to two years of unemployment, and then the replacement job pays a fraction of what you made before. There are other financial disasters, such as divorce or a major medical…

That's a great feedback. I think I can add these scenarios as new features to the life events section. I have also thought of allowing to specify correlation between income and markets performance.

If you are interested in beta testing these feature, shoot me an email at hi@foresightplanner.com

Re: Show HN: I made a retirement simulator: 125 years of data, 25 countries

#42

It's really sobering how much your use of international data impacts the failure rates. If you limit yourself to US historical data then I think about 3.5% withdrawal rate is bulletproof. But in your data I managed to get 2.2% failure rate when withdrawing just 2.5% p.a for 20 years!

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