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Show HN: Investment Calculator – A simple retirement calculator
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#12Unfortunately "How much do you currently have saved" does not take negative values, and so this is no use to me.
Decent UI for a monthly + interest style calculator. I like it.
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#13Those seeking a much more sophisticated retirement calculator, where you can set nearly every parameter, such as rate of return, amount saved, and nearly everything else, should checkout firecalc.
You can select different withdrawl rate strategies, different investment strategies, deferred compensation strategies, different investment mixes, and many, many other things.
The interface isn't as pretty, but it is unbelievably sophisticated.
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#14"How much do you currently have saved?"
What does this mean? Cash? Illiquid assets? Retirement funds?
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#15Wow, there's a huge difference if you have 10k in savings already vs starting from scratch. Eye opening!
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#16All this does is scare me. I honestly hope I die before I have to retire, because there's no way I'm going to have saved enough money to live off of, even modestly, and no way I'm going to remain sharp enough to continue earning through and beyond my 60s.
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#17You can save money by decreasing your savings every month instead of contributing a fixed amount. I've never seen an investment calculator or vehicle that allows for such a plan.
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#18Unfortunately "How much do you currently have saved" does not take negative values, and so this is no use to me. Decent UI for a monthly + interest style calculator. I like it.
I think it's asking how much you've saved for retirement, not what your net worth is.
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#19Nice to see your income rise so much just before you die and a lawyer gives it all away. Alas “the old have the means but no mobility, and the young have the mobility but no means”
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#20Looks really nice and polished, thanks for sharing!
Sorry for asking, but what exactly does the icon of the bag with money in the diagram indicate?