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With the current volatility in markets around the world, this announcement of new features to make updating all investments' properties easier is either timely or untimely. That depends on whether you closely monitor your investments or ignore them in such times.

Mock investments. You can now set any investment (except 'Cash' investments) to be ignored in the TIME MACHINE and in net worth calculations. This is useful to run scenarios with portfolios of different investments you are considering. Ignored investments will still have their values automatically updated with FUNData market data or Wealthica when applicable, so it's also useful to just follow these investments you are considering but may not own yet.

View/Edit all Investments in all Accounts now allows you to edit most properties of all investments entered all on one page. Besides price, shares, market value, and book value, you can now change the risk value, default current expected returns, fees, and whether to ignore the investment or not.

Update from a spreadsheet. If you have many investments that need to be entered or updated manually, you may want to update from a spreadsheet (particularly if you do not use Wealthica). Most financial institutions allow you to download your investment values into a comma-separated (csv) or other file format that you can then get into a spreadsheet program to view it. Once you have your data in a spreadsheet program like Excel, Google Sheets, or Numbers, you can now import those data to update your investments in the MoneyReady App.  For adding new accounts and their investments, first add the Account in the app, then the spreadsheet can be used to add the investments into it. I refer you to the eBook to learn how to set up the spreadsheet for import. It's easy to get a template by simply downloading your current list of investments from the View/Edit all Investments in all Accounts page.

Many are asking me how to deal with the current market volatility. Do not panic. Keep a long-term view for long-term investments. Make sure the money that is needed short-term is there for you by not having it tied up in the market.

Remember, we provide the tools for you to determine how resilient your portfolio is and thus be prepared for market volatility: https://www.moneyreadyapp.ca/blog/post/14

All the Best to all my fellow Canadians,
Elisabeth

In my last Announcement, I mentioned users wanted more and more detailed reporting.

  • We've added a new GAINS table in the year reports. 
    • This table breaks down the total investment gains by type (interest, foreign dividends, eligible dividends, capital growth), by account type and for each account. It also shows the total fees (account maintenance fees, trading fees, and MER fees) paid, and any foreign taxes withheld. Additionally, realised capital gains and losses are shown.
  • A new Sankey diagram right above the GAINS table shows the cash-flows in and out for the different account types types. 
  • To accurately report the MER fees, we need to capture these for your ETF and mutual fund investments (optional).
    • The Management Expense Ratio (MER) corresponds to the total cost of managing and operating the fund, expressed as a percentage of the fund's assets. It is charged indirectly to the investor by reducing the returns. Fund returns are always reported by the fund after deducting the MER. We ask if the expected rates of return have not already been reduced by the MER. If you check the box, then the MER entered will reduce the expected yields you entered in the TIME MACHINE. Leave the box unchecked if you do not want the returns to be reduced by the MER. In either case, you will see an estimate of the fees paid in total for each account in the GAINS table. 
    • We will be adding the current MER fees as defaults for the most commonly-held ETFs eventually, but you may need to look up up the MER fees for your fund.
  • You can now run 100 market-model simulations on Optimized scenarios. 
    • When you run the Withdrawal Optimizer or the CPP/QPP and Withdrawal Optimizer, there will be a button to run 100 market simulations on the results of that run (under Tools). For these simulation runs, the market model is used, but also your scenario will be modified (in the background) with the changes made to your scenario to reflect the results of the optimization. This means each simulation run will use the withdrawal strategy of the optimized run, and the optimal CPP/QPP start age(s) it calculated in the case of the CPP/QPP and Withdrawal Optimizer.

Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.

PRIORITIES determine the order of accounts to deposit money in years you have a surplus, or to withdraw from accounts in years you have a deficit.  It is a great strength of the MoneyReady App that you can control that, but I've noticed that sometimes users get stuck on this.

PRIORITIES tables no longer intermingle your accounts with your spouse’s accounts and your CCPC accounts. 
Each of those now require separate tables. This sounds like it would be more complicated, but it actually makes things a lot clearer.

The entire PRIORITIES section of the eBook has been rewritten, and for visual learners, we have created a new video explaining how PRIORITIES work in detail.

It was a good time to make this change as you will be required to review your PRIORITIES with the New Year (see below).

I'm a bit sad to see 2024 go, as it was an amazing standout year for the MoneyReady App. We celebrated it turning 5 years old, and though you'd think we'd run out of features to add, far from it! Here's a brief summary of the upgrades we made and announced in 2024:

Reporting.

  • The summary cash-flow report has been a big hit. So much so that I've been considering showing it instead of the TIME TABLE as the default report you see at first.  What do you think?
  • The Table of Contents of the full Report has also been appreciated. However, someone made the comment on social media that our reports are too extensive. Given that my actual users most often request more and more detailed reporting, I do find that an odd comment.
  • We've recently added a new graph breaking down the source of investment growth over all your accounts, and we are planning more detailed reporting of growth.

SCANS.

  • The ability to do parameter scans was added at the end of March. It's a powerful feature, I'm surprised it's not used more.
  • We recently added the ability to run SCANs with the Withdrawal Optimizer, and that should help its popularity. Particularly if you have investments held in your corporation (see below).

Taxes.

  • The Federal government kind of forced our hand here with the changes in the Capital Gains, and the Alternative Minimum Tax. We ended up implementing the AMT. I expect more changes to come.
  • Québec likes to do things differently, and we worked on implementing more of its particularities for improved Québec tax calculations and our reporting of them.  We now include RAMQ premiums and contributions to the Health Services Fund when payable. We've added the Senior Assistance tax credit, the Solidarity tax credit, and the Family Allowance. 

Permanent life insurance.

  • This had been often requested but was very difficult to add. It's difficult because only the insurance company has all the information necessary to do all the calculations. The workaround requires you to get an "illustration" from your insurance advisor, that we can now incorporate into the MoneyReady App.

CCPCs.

  • We greatly improved the reporting for CCPCs. They now have their own detailed year reports, complete with Sankey cash-flow diagrams.
  • What I'm most proud of is the ability to automatically direct the tax-optimal withdrawals of the different types of dividends from the CCPC.
  • Combined with the ability to perform SCANS on the amount of income required, you can find the optimal mix of salary and dividends to withdraw from your CCPC before retirement.
  • For after retirement, you can run a SCAN with the Withdrawal Optimizer of the dividend income required to determine the best withdrawal strategy in retirement considering both the CCPC investment accounts and your own personal accounts.


All this hard work paid off as we got attention from the Press this year. Both Bruce Sellery and Rob Carrick told me it was MoneyReady App users who recommended the app to them and urged them to make it widely known. And they did, big time.  Many of you now are new users, so welcome! 


You know where to find me if you have questions, comments, or suggestions.
Thank you for spreading the word.

Happy New Year everyone!

Elisabeth

 

New Year Checklist:
Here is a list of things that need to be updated at the start of the year, and sometimes throughout the year to keep the TIME MACHINE calculation as accurate as possible.

  • CPP/QPP table(s). An entry for pensionable earnings for last year will appear. You will need to estimate what those were until the actual amount is updated at the CRA or Retraite Québec later in the year. 
  • Changes in ACCOUNTS. For the accounts listed below, you’ll need to ’Edit Account Properties’. Review each account, and click ’Save and continue’ on every form, as some of the information required may appear on subsequent forms.
    • RRIFs and LIFs. For each of these, enter the balance of the account at the end of last year. If you make any withdrawals during the year, update the total withdrawn this current year.
    • FHSAs. You must also ’Edit Account properties’ for any FHSAs to reflect the cumulative amount contributed to date.
    • RDSPs. Update the table of previous contributions if one appears. If you make a contribution this year, enter the amount once made, and you will need to come back and check the box once the grants/bonds have been received so that they are not double counted in the TIME MACHINE.
    • RESPs. Make sure the table of previous contributions and withdrawals is kept up to date.
  • PRIORITIES. Just review the PRIORITIES once you've updated the accounts. A new entry for this year will be created automatically from last year if you haven’t created one for the new year previously.
  • TIME MACHINE. There are up to 3 screens that capture current year tax information before running the TIME MACHINE: one for yourself, one for your spouse, and one for your CCPC when applicable. Please update the amounts asked for the current year, and keep them updated throughout the year.
  • Tax owing or refund. If you expect a tax refund from the previous year’s taxes, you can enter it as an Income (Other, not taxable) with start and end dates on the date you expect to receive it. Similarly for tax owing, enter it as an Expense for the date you expect to pay it.

 

Hi everyone,

The response to the press attention mentioned in my last two announcements has been phenomenal and has kept me very busy answering questions from new users. But I've also made improvements to the MoneyReadyApp over the last couple of months that I'd like to share with you today.

  1. SCANs can now be run with the Withdrawal Optimizer. This makes it possible to make sure your after-retirement withdrawal strategy is optimal for any value of the parameters being scanned.
  2. It also makes it possible to determine the best withdrawal strategy that also considers the depletion from CCPC investment accounts by performing a SCAN on the Optimized Dividend INCOME from the CCPC. This is a feature I've gotten a lot of requests for from business owners. 
  3. If you have a CCPC, the value of the CCPC at death is now shown in your list of saved runs so you can easily consider the value of both your CCPC and personal estate when comparing runs.
  4. Using a younger spouse’s age to calculate the minimum required RRIF/LIF withdrawals is usually beneficial so we had made it the default behavior, but it is now optional. For accounts where that may be applicable, Edit the Account Properties until it asks you whether to use the younger spouse’s age. Uncheck the box if you want the account’s owner age used to determine the minimum withdrawal.
  5. The 100 Monte Carlo simulation results now display how many of the samples did not have a cash-flow problem.
  6. We now consider Preferred shares as having their own separate asset allocation separate from Equities (common shares). With the rise of Crypto ETFs, we also allow an asset allocation to Crypto (previously "Other") for these. Default rates for these asset classes have been added.
  7. We are getting ready to capture Second Additional Contributions to CPP and QPP which started in 2024. The TIME MACHINE has always calculated those in the future, but as of 2025, we will need to capture the past contributions (from 2024 on). You will see some changes to your CPP and QPP contribution tables.

As always, the details are in the MoneyReady App eBook and appropriate Help pages. Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.

And I want to extend a warm welcome to all our new users!

 

The MoneyReady App is a web app. It works with any modern browser on any device.

A laptop or a large tablet is preferable.

Note that some versions of the Safari browser have a bug that can cause you to get logged out or send you back to the dashboard. If you have any problems with it, please use a different browser.

 

 

Please see this blog post for a brief overview. More details are on the homepage, and even more in the MoneyReady App ebook you can download once logged in.

We've made substantial changes that apply to CCPCs to improve accuracy, clarity, and optimisation. If you have an incorporated small business, read on. 

  • The first changes you will see are in the CCPC PROFILE. There you will enter the CCPC Owner (you or your spouse). For each of you, and any DEPENDENTS entered, we require their percentage ownership of the company, and if they are allowed to receive dividends before the CCPC owner turns 65 (usually not the case for non-voting shareholders of professional corporations).
  • You can also set a date when you want to wind down your CCPC. On that date, CCPC accounts will be liquidated and its loans paid off. Any remaining cash value of any life insurance contracts owned by the CCPC will be received. After the corporate taxes are paid, the CCPC will distribute the remaining cash as dividends in a tax-efficient manner to the shareholders in accordance with their percentage ownership.
  • In INCOMEs, you will see 2 additional income types you can add for incomes coming from the CCPC (Optimised Dividends, and Salary and Optimised Dividends). For these, the amount of income from dividends issued by the corporation will be divided into capital dividends, eligible dividends, and non-eligible dividends in a tax-optimized manner to maximize the depletion of notional accounts. If income is still needed after that, for the first option, non-eligible dividends are paid, whereas in the second option, a salary to the CCPC owner will be paid.
  • These 2 new income entries can also be Joint with a spouse, and in that case, the dividends paid will be shared equally between the spouses, if the spouse can receive dividends.
  • We describe in the eBook how to set up a SCAN to find the level of salary versus dividends to apply that maximizes the estate (including the value of the CCPC) at the death of owner, 
  • For better accuracy of the current year's calculations, there are additional inputs in the CCPC tax input form to capture the year-to-date gains in your CCPC investment accounts.
  • We have clarified the CCPC table headers, and there are now detailed year reports for the CCPC that also include a Sankey cash-flow diagram for each year (just click on the year in the CCPC Time Table). There is also a detailed cash-flow report for all years.

As always, lots of explanations in the eBook and Help pages. If this sounds complicated, well it is. CCPCs are very complicated and you should always consult with professional advisors (accountants and lawyers) that are specialised in this area.

I had a nice chat with Bruce Sellery last week for his podcast:

Moolala: Money Made Simple with Bruce Sellery

I'm happy to announce we now support permanent LIFE INSURANCE in the MoneyReady App.
We cover Term to 100, Whole Life, and Universal Life. Any of these, plus regular term insurance can also be owned by a CCPC.
We also support collateral LOANS secured by the policies.


Projecting permanent life insurance values in time requires a lot of information, some of which is proprietary to the insurance company and not available. This limits the calculations we can do. However, your insurance advisor can provide you with an Illustration for any scenario you would like to model using their company's software. This includes the source of premiums paying for the policy, and taking policy loans or partial cash-value redemptions of the policy. Their software can handle all the parameters for these flexible and complicated policies to calculate the death benefit, cash value, and adjusted cost basis at any point in the future given their assumed rates of growth and other assumptions. I realise that life insurance Illustrations may be complicated so you may need to discuss them with your insurance advisor.


We have added the ability to upload into the MoneyReady App the information from such illustrations that it needs for the TIME MACHINE. It's a lot of numbers to enter, so we provide a template you can fill in Excel and then paste it in. Once entered, the TIME MACHINE will be able to determine changes in your cash flow, including any tax implications of including the life insurance policy into your financial plan. The TIME MACHINE is limited to that illustration you upload and will follow it to the penny. It will not change it in Simulations or the Optimizer. The best we can do is to stick to what your insurance advisor projects.

I leave you to read the updated eBook and Help pages for details. The LIFE INSURANCE chapter was rewritten from scratch.

Let me know if you have any questions or comments. If you have specific questions about entering your illustration data into the app, please contact me. I may ask you to send me your illustration.

 

The Alternative Minimum Tax is now implemented (federally and for all provinces) and we make it available for MoneyReady App subscribed users only.

The AMT is a separate tax calculation done to make sure that wealthy Canadians that have little or no regular tax to pay due to claimed tax deductions and credits, still have to pay a minimum tax. This has always applied rarely, and it will be even more rarely applicable with the recent changes to the AMT calculation itself, and the recently announced changes to the capital-gains inclusion rate.

Because it applies so rarely, you can set whether to have it calculated it or not in your PREFERENCES. Most of you can leave the feature off, as it will slow down your TIME MACHINE runs. Just turn it on if you are running a scenario where you think it may apply, or if you have made AMT payments in the past.

It will always be calculated for Advisor clients.

If you do choose to have it calculated (and have a valid subscription), you will be able to enter any AMT tax paid in the last 7 years in the tax input screens before running the TIME MACHINE. The TIME MACHINE also calculates any refund of the previous year's AMT payments.

The TIME MACHINE will show a Warning if the tax is applied and the detailed year reports will show you any AMT paid or any AMT carryover applied.

Important change for everyone:

To accommodate the AMT calculation we now need to ask you for the current year's capital losses and the previous year's carried-forward capital losses separately in the tax input screens.

Please treat all tax calculations in the MoneyReady App as approximate as we do not consider everything.

Let me know if you have any questions or issues.

 

 

To speed up analyses like Simulations, Scans, and the CPP/QPP and Withdrawal Optimiser that require many TIME MACHINES runs, we now distribute those runs over several machines so that they are done in parallel. Mileage varies, but our testing has shown the analyes are now 3 to 8 times faster, which is a great improvement. We hire machines on demand just for your own individual jobs, so that only under extreme traffic conditions will they be waiting in queue.

The only downside is that showing you the actual progress of an analysis is a little more complicated, as progress is no longer linear.

You will now see "0% done" at the start as a worker is hired which gets the jobs ready to distribute. You'll then see "Distributing tasks (x% done)" with the x increasing up to 99% as the tasks get distributed to other workers. It could look stuck there for a bit, as it waits for tasks to come back, then you will see "Tasks done (x%)". This last one increases pretty quickly as the tasks come back finished.

Although the analyses are much faster, they can still take some time so please be patient.

Enjoy the long weekend!

The latest Federal budget proposed a higher capital gains inclusion rate for capital gains of 66.67%. This would apply to all capital gains for corporations, and to capital gains above $250,000 for individuals. This is supposed to be applied from June 28, 2024. Many people have asked for its implementation in the app already, and the app applies it for all of 2024 (since April 19, 2024 when we implemented it).

The TIME MACHINE has mostly a one-year resolution.  Do not use the app for last-minute tax planning, you should use a tax advisor for that. We will roll back this change if the proposal does not pass although it seems likely to pass. We will be implementing other tax changes announced in the latest federal and provincial budgets in the next few weeks, so you may see slight differences in tax calculations.

Hi everyone,

For completeness, I just wanted to catch up on some recent changes that were either already announced in the other forums or are fairly minor.

  • The REPORT now includes a Table of Contents. It has links to navigate the report on the web or the pdf. 
  • Taxes in the year reports are now broken down by federal, province/territory, CPP, and EI contributions.
  • The Sample report pdf download has been updated.
  • Joint (Not Really) accounts. Useful for Non-Registered accounts that are Joint to avoid probate, but are used as individual accounts to avoid attribution rules and simplify tax filing.
  • CPP/QPP Death Benefit. It will only be calculated if you have not already started taking CPP/QPP.
  • Union dues have been added to the list of deductible EXPENSES.
  • If you have already started U.S. Social Security benefits. If you or your spouse are also currently receiving WEP (including CPP/QPP) or GPO pensions, we now ask you for the amount of the U.S. Social Security benefits you are receiving. This allows for the calculation of the WEP and GPO amounts that were used by the SSA to calculate your benefits (including spousal benefits). The TIME MACHINE will update the amounts as required should you have set further WEP or GPO pensions to be started in the future and will update your benefit calculations.

 

The TIME MACHINE Year reports now have subtotals by expense type (when specified), income type, and account type. You can now get all the years together in a single report. This extensive report, in both today's and future dollars, is now included as new worksheets in the Excel download.

You can view only a selection of the years. That is the same cash-flow report that is included in the REPORT for printing or pdf download.

A new summary cash-flow report is now also available. For every year, it shows the Cash In totals of EXTERNAL INCOME and ACCOUNT WITHDRAWALs by account type. The Cash Out columns show the total spending, total taxes, and ACCOUNT DEPOSITS by account type. The Net-savings are also shown. The cells are coloured with a heat map to help you see exceptionally low and high amounts.

Although these reports are available for older runs including saved runs, those may not show all the subtotals. Also if you've entered a lot of EXPENSE entries, you may want to add an expense type for them if you haven't already. This way you'll see their subtotals in the reports, and it will also make the Sankey diagram in the year report a lot cleaner.

You can get to any of these larger reports from the Views section below any TIME MACHINE Timetable, or from the Year report (click on any year in the Timetable).

Let me know if you have any issues, questions, or suggestions.

Elisabeth

Here's what the summary cash-flow report looks like:

Summary cash-flow

 

The account rebalancing procedure used by our rebalancing tool and the TIME MACHINE now considers risk-adjusted expected returns rather than simply expected returns.

For that to work optimally, you need to have entered risk values for all your investments. To make that easy, we expanded the 'Change the expected rates of return for all investments by their asset classes'  feature again. We've added a checkbox that when checked will also automatically set the risk value for each investment. If we can calculate the 3-year volatility for the investment from the FUNData market data for that investment, the risk measure on our scale of 1 to 20 will be used. If not, an approximate risk measure based on the investment's asset classes will be set.

The risk measure will also be set automatically when you enter new investments either manually or when first imported from Wealthica.

I like to start the year by reflecting on the one past, and 2023 was absolutely fantastic for the MoneyReady App by every metric we have: traffic, registrations, subscriptions, and renewals. It's all from word of mouth, we didn't do any advertising.

I want to thank all of you who have supported the app not only with your paid subscriptions that keep the lights on, but also your referrals, and your feedback. I always find your feedback very useful so thank you for taking the time to reach out through the Forum or the Contact page.
I am continually improving the app and adding features and I want to particularly thank the people who have asked for features directly, or simply through their questions, feedback, and interesting discussions, that inspired me to write new or to improve features. 

Here is the list of new features and enhancements we announced last year with the Money Ready Forum usernames of the people I particularly want to thank.

January 2023:

• 100 Monte-Carlo simulations. (understandingTermite8)
• If you have started or applied for U.S. Social Security benefits. (forcefulFerret1)
• Foreign currencies for REVENUES, INCOMES, EXPENSES, and AUTOMATIC SAVINGS/WITHDRAWALS. (enlightenedSyrup4, forcefulFerret1)
• A model for the USD/CAD exchange rate was added to the Market simulations. (forcefulFerret1)

March 2023:

•  The MoneyReady Forum. (SheltieLover)
•  Accurate GIS calculations when reduced OAS eligibility. (enchantedTermite7)

April 2023:

• Implementation of changes to the QPP starting in 2024. 
• Ability to take CPP in Québec and QPP outside of Québec. (niceBumblebeeburritos8)
• EXPENSE Types, Subtypes, and Subtotals. (forcefulFerret1)

May 2023:

• CPP/QPP and OAS start age including months.
• Added a multiplier option to inflation for indexing. (immenseMuesli9)

June 2023:

•  OpenAI searching of all MoneyReady documentation. (WanderingMonkey)
•  Repeating EXPENSEs date picker. (brilliantChile0, forcefulFerret1)

October 2023:

• We’ve added support for Family RESPs and now allow multiple Individual RESPs for the same beneficiary. (communicativeTuna7)
• New Cash-flow Sankey diagrams in the year reports. (gregariousDotterel1)

November 2023:

• Notification emails from the MoneyReady Forum. (SheltieLover)
• ChatTVM: use AI for solving Time Value of Money problems.

December 2023:

• Rates for Short-term and Long-term financial planning. (sincereFish9)

 

If you use and like any of these features, I wanted to give all the credit to the users named.

Behind the scenes were many more enhancements. We have also greatly improved the site's speed, stability, and accuracy by adding server capacity, extensive testing capabilities, and more automated error checks and warnings. But still, along with all this new code in an extensive app as this one, it is inevitable for a bug to sometimes creep into production, and you can blame me entirely for those. 

So I also want to give a special thanks to all of you who have graciously reported anomalies you saw or asked for clarification. This greatly helped me find the bug if there was one or to clarify the app and its documentation to eliminate confusion. Many of you are already in the list above since the power users that use the app extensively and push it to its limits, are also the most likely to both see anomalies and to make suggestions. Additional thanks to sympatheticRaisins4, impartialLollies5, astronomicalToucan8,  stupendousSausage4, marvelousJerky8, incredibleBustard8, likableToucan0, decisiveGuppyhare3, courteousEggs8, fearlessRaisins5, enchantedTortoise1, focusedGranola0, lushEnzymeeukaryotefalcon1, adventurousBittern9, proficientLlama0, dependableTermite1, bustlingEnzymeeukaryotefalcon6, mountainousCheetah8. I thank you all for your patience and understanding.

Together, we are making the MoneyReady App the smartest financial planning app for you and all Canadians.

Onward to 2024! I wish everyone a happy and prosperous year.


Elisabeth Tillier, Ph.D.
President of MoneyReady

Today I'm happy to announce changes in the RATES/YIELDS/CURRENCIES section. 
These mostly apply to advanced users who enter and follow their individual investments.

1. Setting default expected rates of return by asset classes.
    If you've used this feature before you'll notice we have expanded the asset classes considered. 
    The rates entered will now be used to automatically set expected rates of return when investments are first entered, or first imported from Wealthica.
    The defaults have been set to the FP Canada long-term recommendations but you can change those defaults and save them.
    You can use them to change the default rates for all your investments at once at any time. You can now also opt-out any investment you never want changed by this feature.
    
2. Setting Long-Term future expected rates of return. 
    This allows you to set the TIME MACHINE to switch to long-term rates of return by asset class starting a given number of years in the future for all your investments.
    This is an important new feature that permits simultaneous short-term and long-term financial planning.
    It allows you to plan for shorter-term goals like buying a house, in conjunction with longer-term goals like retirement (or a later stage in retirement). 
    
    Many of my users are investors who follow their investments closely, including short-term investments with much higher or lower rates of return than the FP Canada™ projected long-term rates.
    They want the rates to reflect their own expected returns for the short term, and see those reflected in the short-term projections. 
    However, by allowing long-term projected rates to start from a later date, we can also obtain a reasonable long-term financial plan.  

3. The Withdrawal Optimizer now allows changes in future rates. 
    The motivation to implement varying rates in the Withdrawal Optimizer came about because of the new feature to automatically switch to long-term rates in the TIME MACHINE. 
    You can now optimize any TIME MACHINE run that uses that feature, anywhere you have set future rates manually in the Rates table, 
    and it even runs with market-crash scenarios and market simulations (although the usefulness of this on such simulations is doubtful).


Please see the expanded RATES/YIELDS/CURRENCIES section (7.1) of the eBook for details. Let me know if you have questions.

Happy holidays everyone!

 

You can now receive email notifications from the MoneyReady Forum.

This is turned off by default. To turn it on, first log in. On the Forum page, click on the arrow next to your username to go to Settings. There you can select from 3 options:

  1.  Email me when there is a new Post in a Topic that I track
  2.  Email me when there is a new Topic in the Announcements forum
  3.  Email me when there is a new Topic in any Forum

Click Save once you've made your selection. You can select all 3 options but you will only get 1 email if more than one option applies for a new post.

I recommend you select option 2 to be immediately informed of any new features and changes on the MoneyReady App.

You can turn off the emails anytime by changings your Settings again.