Is there a good calcuator to see if we have enough saved?

[Anonymous]

I've used FIRE Calc and some other Monte Carlo-style calculators to track our progress.

Are there other calculators that take various life situations into account? What is it that financial advisors use to determine that you need to work more or can stop working now?

[Anonymous]

Boldin does what you are looking for.

[Anonymous]

I would say that you would need a bare minimum of 25x expenses after accounting for taxes. How granular do you want to get? I use Boldin and could probably do the job, but it is $100. What life situations did you want to take into account?

[Anonymous]

The $144 per year for Boldin is very worth it. You can do a free trial first.

[Anonymous]

I think it's cFireism that has a side bar where you can input different things for different time periods. I've mostly just used it for LTC costs to see where we stand. I also like that you can put in specific years. As in 1966 - 1982. (I've done a few others.) So see how we would have survived that sort of market.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The $144 per year for Boldin is very worth it. You can do a free trial first.

I downloaded it after seeing it on this thread and WOW - I’m impressed.

[Anonymous]

Do you have to connect Boldin to your bank accounts?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you have to connect Boldin to your bank accounts?

No, you can just add your accounts manually. Its fairly intuitive and I found the Roth conversion tool very helpful. I hired a financial planner recently and I have to say that Boldin was definitely a much better value!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you have to connect Boldin to your bank accounts?

No, you can just add your accounts manually. Its fairly intuitive and I found the Roth conversion tool very helpful. I hired a financial planner recently and I have to say that Boldin was definitely a much better value!

+1. I didn’t connect them and I’m the PP above who just downloaded it today. It was beyond helpful just adding in our major retirement accounts and assets.

I wish they had an integration with Monarch! Would make connecting all the accounts so much easier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you have to connect Boldin to your bank accounts?

No, you can just add your accounts manually. Its fairly intuitive and I found the Roth conversion tool very helpful. I hired a financial planner recently and I have to say that Boldin was definitely a much better value!

Thanks! I will look at using Boldin.

OP

[Anonymous]

From Bogleheads, I learned of Pralana and ProjectionLab.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From Bogleheads, I learned of Pralana and ProjectionLab.

This is OP, btw.

[Anonymous]

I use Pralana. I purchased it last year and intend to continue my subscription. It does a good job with taxes and has endless opportunities for customized scenarios with respect income and expenses. The guy who runs it is very responsive to questions and bug fixes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I use Pralana. I purchased it last year and intend to continue my subscription. It does a good job with taxes and has endless opportunities for customized scenarios with respect income and expenses. The guy who runs it is very responsive to questions and bug fixes.

Can you manually entire information, or do you have to connect to your bank and investment accounts?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From Bogleheads, I learned of Pralana and ProjectionLab.

+1.

Along with Boldin, they all get good reviews. You have to see which one works for you. We just started with Projections Lab. So far, we like it. And no, we don’t connect our bank/brokerage accounts.(I don’t recall that even being possible.)