Retirement age financial simulator

• US 20100179920A1
• Filed: 01/15/2009
• Published: 07/15/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Money Tree Software
• Original Assignee: Money Tree Software
• Inventors: Snodgrass, Mark
• Application Number:
  US12/319,981
• Publication Number:
  US 20100179920A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/36.R
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/06 Asset management; Financial planning or analysis

Abstract

The present invention provides the user a financial retirement simulation tool that accepts user inputs like investment portfolio value, retirement age ranges and post retirement spending rules based on the retirement circumstance, further inputs are included like projected market performance and inflation impact assumptions, the invention then simulates a multitude of retirement financial scenarios at various retirement ages and various post retirement spending levels with the retirement circumstance dynamically simulated with the market performance and inflation impact assumptions modified within a statistically acceptable range using the Monte Carlo technique, resulting in a plurality of potential retirement financial scenarios with probabilities of those scenarios occurring.

Claims

1. For use in a computer implemented tool for financial retirement simulation, comprising:

input means for receiving user information, static assumptions, and dynamic variable parameters;

means to simulate one full retirement scenario with user information and static assumptions;

means for storing the result of one full retirement scenario simulation with user information and static assumptions;

means to simulate multiple full retirement scenarios with user information and static assumptions, modifying the static assumptions by the Monte Carlo technique into dynamic variables within the dynamic variable parameters;

means for storing results of multiple full retirement scenario simulations with user information and dynamic variables; and

output means for generating a graphical output report of stored results illustrating the simulated retirement scenarios.

2. A computer implemented tool for financial retirement simulation of claim 1, wherein the user information includes portfolio of current assets including cash, stocks, savings, income, real estate or other fungible holdings.

3. A computer implemented tool for financial retirement simulation of claim 1, wherein the user information includes rules varying retirement age based on retirement asset performance.

4. A computer implemented tool for financial retirement simulation of claim 1, wherein the user information includes rules varying post retirement spending based on retirement asset performance.

5. A computer implemented tool for financial retirement simulation of claim 1, wherein the user information includes user life years remaining, and user'"'"'s potential retirement ages.

6. A computer implemented tool for financial retirement simulation of claim 1, wherein the static assumptions include historic financial market performance, historic inflation effect, expected market performance, and expected inflation effect.

7. A computer implemented tool for financial retirement simulation of claim 1, wherein the user information includes user post retirement spending requirements or allowable range of post retirement permissible spending variations.

8. A computer implemented tool for financial retirement simulation of claim 1, wherein the output means includes illustrations of financial retirement simulation after retirement age.

9. A computer implemented tool for financial retirement simulation of claim 1, wherein the full retirement scenario simulation includes simulation of multiple retirement ages.

10. A computer implemented tool for financial retirement simulation of claim 1, wherein the user information includes portfolio value, retirement ages, and user life years;

and the output means include illustrations of simulated portfolio value for a plurality of retirement ages, simulated over user life years.

11. For use in a computer implemented tool for financial retirement simulation, comprising:

input means for receiving user information, static assumptions, and dynamic variable parameters;

means to simulate multiple full retirement scenarios with user information and static assumptions, said static assumptions modified by the Monte Carlo technique into dynamic variables within dynamic variable parameters;

means for storing results of multiple full retirement scenario simulations with user information and dynamic variables; and

output means for generating a graphical output report of stored results illustrating the simulated retirement scenarios.

12. A computer implemented tool for financial retirement simulation of claim 11, wherein the user information includes user life years remaining, life expectancy variation parameters, portfolio of current assets including cash, stocks, savings, income, real estate or other fungible holdings.

13. A computer implemented tool for financial retirement simulation of claim 11, wherein the user information includes user'"'"'s financial goal or goals.

14. A computer implemented tool for financial retirement simulation of claim 11, wherein the static assumptions include historic financial market performance, historic inflation effect, expected market performance, and expected inflation effect.

15. A computer implemented tool for financial retirement simulation of claim 11, wherein the user information includes user post retirement spending requirements and allowable range of post retirement permissible spending variations.

16. A computer implemented tool for financial retirement simulation of claim 11, wherein the output means includes illustrations of financial retirement simulation after retirement age.

17. A computer implemented tool for financial retirement simulation of claim 11, wherein the full retirement scenario simulation includes simulation of multiple retirement ages.

18. A computer implemented tool for financial retirement simulation of claim 11, wherein the user information includes portfolio value, retirement ages, and user life years;

and the output means include illustrations of simulated portfolio value for a plurality of retirement ages, simulated over user life years.

19. A computer implemented tool for financial retirement simulation of claim 11, wherein the user information includes rules varying retirement age based on retirement asset performance.

20. A computer implemented tool for financial retirement simulation of claim 11, wherein the user information includes rules varying post retirement spending based on retirement asset performance.