Talk:Retirement calculators and spending

Purpose of Article
--ThePrune 22:23, 9 September 2011 (EDT) I wrote this article to implement suggestions by LadyGeek and Blbarnitz that all references to specific retirement spending models being used in retirement calculators should be gathered together in a common table. In preparing the table I decided to also include other useful information, especially the type of calculation used to extrapolate future investment returns. With just this little bit of extra work the resulting table are immensely more useful.

I decided to incorporate as footnotes additional information about how the calculator implemented certain spending models, or to explain how to access that model if it was not readily apparent (i.e. I had to hunt around in the calculator documentation to discover the technique).

I will leave it to LadyGeek and Blbarnitz to decide how to link this article back to the Tools and Calculators article.

The formatting needs improvement, so Go To It!


 * I tweaked the table by slightly expanding the abbreviated table headings in the Spending Model as Retirement Progresses sub heading for easier comprehension, and I also made these titles into internal wiki links to the original wiki page subheading discussions. --Blbarnitz 23:48, 9 September 2011 (EDT)

Additions Needed
--ThePrune 22:38, 9 September 2011 (EDT) There are a lot more Purchased Retirement Calculators that need to be added into that Table and categorized according to Calculation type(s) and retirement spending model used. Everything takes time, though....