{"id":4810,"date":"2017-05-25T05:00:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/?p=4810"},"modified":"2017-05-25T09:01:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T16:01:18","slug":"monte-carlo-retirement-plan-b-calculations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/monte-carlo-retirement-plan-b-calculations\/","title":{"rendered":"Monte Carlo Retirement Plan B Calculations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/iStock-672340402.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4845 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/iStock-672340402-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of roulette wheel for blog post about monte carlo simulations and retirement plans\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/iStock-672340402-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/iStock-672340402-622x415.jpg 622w, https:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/iStock-672340402-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/iStock-672340402.jpg 724w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the last few days, the Evergreen Small Business blog has described why and how you need to develop a &#8220;plan b&#8221; for your retirement.<\/p>\n<p>On \u00a0Monday, the blog talked about <a href=\"http:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/retirement-plan-b-need-one\/\">why you need a &#8220;plan b.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A couple of days ago, for example, the blog described the <a href=\"http:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/firecalc-retirement-plan-b-calculations\/\">steps for using the popular FIRECalc<\/a> tool to make the necessary calculations.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the blog described the <a href=\"http:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/cfiresim-retirement-plan-b-calculations\/\">steps for using the more powerful but also more complicated cFIREsim<\/a> tool to do the same work.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I want to describe something a little different\u2014which is how to use the Portfolio Visualizer tool to use another approach for understanding a likely range of outcomes for your retirement savings.<\/p>\n<p>The Portfolio Visualizer Monte Carlo Simulation tool to identifies the range of outcomes that separates the 25<sup>th<\/sup> percentile from the 75<sup>th<\/sup> percentile.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> You can get more granular information about outcomes using cFIREsim, which I described in yesterday&#8217;s post. But you have to go to more work. Maybe someday you&#8217;ll want to go to that extra work&#8230; but if you&#8217;re just trying right now to get a quick sense of the &#8220;retirement plan b&#8221; issue, Portfolio Visualizer works well.<\/p>\n<h2>Using a Monte Carlo Simulation<\/h2>\n<p>You should find the Monte Carlo Simulation tool surprisingly easy to use. Simply follow these steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Open the Portfolio Visualizer home page using this link <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portfoliovisualizer.com\">portfoliovisualizer.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Scroll down the page and click the Monte Carlo Simulation link to display the webpage you\u2019ll need to do your simulation. The Monte Carlo Simulation web form appears (see Figure 1). Note that you can click this image to get a larger, more readable copy.\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_4842\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4842\" style=\"width: 622px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/planb10.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4842 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/planb10-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Picture of Monte Carlo simulation retirement plan b inputs\" width=\"622\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/planb10-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/planb10-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/planb10-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/planb10-622x350.png 622w, https:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/planb10.png 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 1<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<li>Enter your current retirement savings into the Initial Amount text box. (If your current savings equals zero, enter 1 into the Initial Amount text box. You can&#8217;t enter a 0 as the Initial Amount.)<\/li>\n<li>Set the Annual Adjustment drop-down box to Add Annual Contribution.<\/li>\n<li>Enter the amount you\u2019ll annually contribute to your retirement savings in the Annual Contribution text box. (If you will save $5,500, for example, enter 5500 into the Annual Contribution box.)<\/li>\n<li>Select one of the \u201cnumber of years\u201d entries from the Simulation Period (Years) drop-down list box. You can\u2019t choose any old number of years for your simulation. Rather you\u2019ll need to select the simulation period that most closely matches your remaining years of saving money: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, or 50.<\/li>\n<li>Click the Asset Allocation button (it shows a gear) and select the asset allocation formula that matches or most closely matches yours. After you do this, Portfolio Analyzer enters the correct percentages for the selected asset allocation formation in the Allocation text boxes.<\/li>\n<li>Adjust the percentage values shown in the Allocation text boxes from whatever Portfolio Visualizer enters to whatever matches or nearly matches your asset allocation.<\/li>\n<li>Click Run Simulation button to run the Monte Carlo simulation of outcomes for your retirement savings plan.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Reviewing \u00a0Monte Carlo Simulation Results<\/h2>\n<p>After you click Run Simulation, Portfolio Visualizer runs the Monte Carlo simulation and delivers probably the cleanest, most understandable results of any of the tools I\u2019ve described this week for retirement plan b thinking.<\/p>\n<p>The Monte Carlo Simulation Results page includes the median balance, 25<sup>th<\/sup> percentile balance, and the 75<sup>th<\/sup> percentile balance for the retirement savings plan, giving you not just a median outcome but both the 25th and 75th percentiles which you can use for your &#8220;retirement plan b&#8221; thinking. (Obviously, for a &#8220;plan b&#8221; you probably want to look at that 25th percentile.)<\/p>\n<p>Further, and very usefully, the Monte Carlo Simulation Results page plots the median, 25<sup>th<\/sup> percentile, and 75<sup>th<\/sup> percentile in a line chart that cleanly shows a range of expected savings amounts you might start retirement with.<\/p>\n<p>Figure 2\u00a0shows this web page. You can click the image to get a larger, more legible copy to read.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4843\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4843\" style=\"width: 622px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/planb11.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4843 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/planb11-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Picture of Monte Carlo simulation results page\" width=\"622\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/planb11-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/planb11-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/planb11-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/planb11-622x350.png 622w, https:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/planb11.png 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4843\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But an important note: A potential problem exists with the Portfolio Visualizer&#8217;s Monte Carlo simulation. The calculations show inflated dollars rather than real dollars which have the inflation &#8220;wrung out&#8221; of the numbers.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, you can&#8217;t compare directly these values to those you calculate using FIRECalc or cFIREsim which are adjusted for inflation. Nevertheless, you may still find these Monte Carlo values useful. The range from 25th percentile to 75th percentile shows you the relative size of the range within which your and my\u00a0retirement plans need to work.<\/p>\n<p>Further, the Monte Carlo simulation results page provides good, detailed information on the inflation rates &#8220;baked into&#8221; the calculations. If you deflate these calculation results, they don&#8217;t closely match the results that flow out of FIRECalc and cFIREsim&#8211;but they sort of get close. By the way, the FIRECalc and cFIREsim results don&#8217;t match each other perfectly either, but they mesh pretty neatly.<\/p>\n<h2>Other Resources about Retirement Plan B<\/h2>\n<p>And that\u2019s all you need to know to use the Monte Carlo Simulation tool that Portfolio Visualizer supplies in order to quantify what your retirement plan b needs. As I\u2019ve done for each of these blog posts about the whole retirement plan \u201cb\u201d subject, let me list here the other blog posts that may also help you think concretely about your retirement planning:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/ten-million-dollar-ira-accounts\/\">$10,000,000 Individual Retirement Accounts and 401(k)s Really Possible?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/absurdly-good-retirements-what-small-business-owners-can-learn-from-public-employee-plans\/\">Absurdly Good Retirement Outcomes: What Small Business Owners Can Learn From Public Employee Plans<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/why-you-dont-need-to-worry-about-taxes-in-retirement\/\">Why You Don&#8217;t Need to Worry About Income Taxes During Retirement<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ebook_cover1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3644 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ebook_cover1-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of Thirteen Word Retirement Plan book\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ebook_cover1-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ebook_cover1-768x1226.jpg 768w, https:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ebook_cover1-642x1024.jpg 642w, https:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ebook_cover1-622x993.jpg 622w, https:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ebook_cover1.jpg 1003w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a>By the way, if\u00a0you don&#8217;t your retirement plan &#8220;a&#8221;, download\u00a0a <a href=\"http:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/the-thirteen-word-retirement-plan\/\">free copy of my &#8220;Thirteen Word Retirement Plan&#8221; available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few days, the Evergreen Small Business blog has described why and how you need to develop a &#8220;plan b&#8221; for your retirement. 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