Limitations Of Popular Financial Planning Software Applications For Professionals

J.R. Robinson

02/08/17 4 PM EST

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Program Id: 450769611

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Today's financial planning software for professionals improves on the advice you can give instead of relying on Excel spreadsheets and heuristics like the "4% rule," but even these highly sophisticated apps have serious limitations that fiduciaries need to be aware of and address.

This presentation will take you under the hood of popular goal-based planning software and to expose important factors affecting the efficacy of retirement and other goal-based plans, and provides a framework for determining whether an app is a good fit in a fiduciary’s practice.

At this session, you'll learn about:

• Published research on planning software limitations
• Common simulation methodologies
• Common sources of errors
• Explicit versus implicit mode assumptions and disclosures
• Algorithmically optimal versus practical
• Choosing software best for your practice

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J.R. Robinson is the co-founder of software maker Nest Egg Guru and the owner of Financial Planning Hawaii. His commentary was featured in the Journal of Financial Planning's January 2017 Tech Roundup, and Nest Egg Guru has been featured in Advisory Quest, in Financial Planning Magazine, and on Bill Winterberg's FPPad. He and Nest Egg Guru co-founder, Prof. Jack DeJong, Jr., have published a number of award-winning papers on retirement income sustainability. Their most recent work, "The Determinants of Nest Egg Sustainability" was a Finalist in the 2016 Journal of Financial Planning Academic Research competition.

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