Contents of Issue
From Issue 39
Title: Retirement Planner
Requires: 386 PC, 4MB RAM, VGA graphics, 3 1/2" HD drive, Windows 3.1, and DOS 3.3 or higher.
The whole point of retiring is to stop working at your job so you'll have time to enjoy fishing, golf, the grand kids - all those things that you never seemed to have the time for. But guess what? When you stop working, your paycheck stops, too! Clearly, you'll need a source of income during retirement. At best, Social Security will provide only a part of what you need. It's your responsibility to provide the remainder, through pensions, retirement plans, and savings. How can you know if you'll have enough?

That's what this program is for. Retirement Planner lets you estimate the income, in today's dollars, that you will need during retirement. It then collects information about your various pension, IRA, 401-K, and other retirement savings plans, and estimates the retirement income that you can expect. By comparing this to your estimated needs, you can see if your retirement savings plans are on-track. All calculations are automatically adjusted for predicted inflation. You can also look at "what-if" scenarios, seeing the effects that changes in your retirement contributions will have on your income during retirement.

Note: Available on CD-ROM issue only and is for Windows 95 only.