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- RETIREMENT QUICK-MONITOR (tm)
- Ver. 1.21
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- Copyright 1990-1991 Rod Hoisington
- PO Box 839
- Key Largo, FL 33037
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- HERE'S THE PROBLEM -
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- Many people don't realize until it's too late that their
- retirement assets are not going to cover their retirement needs.
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- Lack of planning will obviously lead to this problem -- also the
- unexpected effect of INTEREST and INFLATION rate changes can
- destroy retirement plans.
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- HERE'S THE SOLUTION -
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- Successful retirement planning is a process of estimating and
- then projecting retirement income and expenses periodically
- using various interest and inflation rate assumptions...
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- ...It's never too early to start.
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- HERE'S WHAT THIS PROGRAM DOES -
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- RETIREMENT QUICK-MONITOR calculates and displays the savings
- necessary for you to retire at EVERY age between 30 and 90 for
- any interest and inflation rate combination.
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- A unique tabulation lets you see the results for all ages at once,
- with the lumpsum, annual and monthly savings required at every age.
- It quickly redisplays with changes.
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- This is a stand-alone program featuring brief worksheets, attractive
- screens, printouts, scrolling menus, and pop-up help. Although
- designed for easy personal forecasting, the speed and graphics make
- it ideal for laptop use by financial planners in front of clients.
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- RETIREMENT QUICK-MONITOR, with its on-screen help, assists you in
- arriving at a successful retirement nestegg estimation. The
- program is divided into two phases:
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- 1. A brief and easy worksheet which helps you arrive at
- retirement Income, Expense, and Savings estimates, and
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- 2. The automatic tabulation which in a continuous display
- shows the earliest date you can retire with your present
- savings, and the amount required to retire at every age
- to age 90. All ages and amounts are on the screen at once.
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- Page 2 -
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- Then, with a keystroke, the program quickly retabulates with your
- choice of a different combination of interest/inflation rates. Also
- displayed for every year between your present age and age 90 is the
- lumpsum amount, the annual deposit, and the monthly savings deposit
- required to reach your retirement nestegg.
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- Although the program provides you with many elements of successful
- planning it is not intended as a complete retirement planning
- program. Its specialty is the dramatic display of your retirement
- situation with varying interest/inflation estimations.
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- The key to your comfortable retirement is to be able to forecast
- what your savings might be with different combinations of interest
- and inflation rates; the best case, the worst case, the most likely,
- the least likely.
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- And then, keep monitoring your nestegg as conditions change.
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- There's the problem, and the solution...and now you have the
- software that can do it.
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- The author is a former tax accountant with a background in
- securities, insurance and education. He has seen the unfortunate
- results of inadequate retirement planning and the misplaced reliance
- on Social Security and private pension plans -- substantial personal
- savings are usually required as well.
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- Start early, monitor often, and gain a comfortable retirement.
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- HERE'S THE FINANCIAL INFORMATION YOU'LL NEED -
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- RETIREMENT QUICK-MONITORs specialty is the handling of the
- interest/inflation problem inherent in retirement planning, and
- to do that it requires three amounts:
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- 1. Your estimate of INCOME you'll have after you retire,
- 2. An estimate of EXPENSES you'll have after you retire,
- 3. The amount of your PRESENT SAVINGS.
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- If you don't already have these totals don't worry, the program
- will help you...
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- A. You can FIND OUT the amount to expect as retirement
- income -- estimates are available from the Social
- Security Administration, employers and plan
- administrators,
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- B. You can ESTIMATE your expenses after retirement (the
- program shows you how.)
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- C. You probably KNOW the amount of your present savings
- (the program will help you total up.)
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- The first two screens in the program consist of brief worksheets
- to assist you in arriving at and totaling these three aggregate
- amounts.
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- The third and final screen lets you see in one continuous display
- the earliest date you can retire with your present savings, and
- the amount required to retire at every age to age 90. All ages
- are seen at once. Then, with a keystroke, it quickly retabulates
- with a different combination of interest/inflation rates.
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- Also displayed is the lumpsum amount, the annual deposit, and the
- monthly savings deposit required to reach your target nestegg.
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- The amount of savings you're going to need may surprise you. But
- the earlier you determine your required nestegg the better.
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- PROGRAM ASSUMPTIONS AND LIMITATIONS -
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- Three assumptions are necessary to provide realistic results.
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- 1. To avoid the tragedy of outliving your income, your life
- expectancy is assumed to be 90 years. All calculation are made
- from your present age to age 90. In other words, if the program
- says you need an additional $50,000 to retire at age 60, that's
- the additional amount needed to cover all of your retirement
- expenses from age 60 to age 90.
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- 2. The Cost Of Living Adjustment (COLA) for Social Security,
- those pension plans which use COLA (many don't), and variable
- annuities tends to run about 80% of the inflation rate. So the
- program sets all COLA at 80% of the assumed inflation rate.
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- 3. Due to many obvious unknowns this program doesn't adjust for
- state and federal income taxes. It's assumed that taxes are paid
- out of other funds.
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- Also note that current Social Security regulations call for gradually
- increasing the full-benefit retirement age from age 65 up to age 67.
- If you were born after 1937 you are affected.
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- This software rounds to the nearest year. So if you will reach age 62
- after 2002 consider your normal retirement age to be 66 instead of 65;
- if you will reach age 62 after 2019 your normal retirement age will be
- 67. You don't need to worry about this as far as the program is
- concerned as it automatically makes all necessary adjustments.
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- The law permitting early retirement at age 62 has NOT been changed.
- This software provides for early Social Security benefits starting
- between age 62 and your normal retirement age (65, 66 or 67), with
- Cost Of Living Adjustment (COLA) included in the calculations starting
- with your normal retirement age.
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- MORE FEATURES -
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- A sample plan and forecast is built in as a menu selection so you
- can become familiar with the program within minutes without having
- to enter your own data.
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- Plans can be saved, and the attractive printed output can be customized
- with fields indicating for whom the report was prepared.
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- This program does NOT require color or special graphics, runs on all
- IBM compatibles, and works perfectly from a single floppy drive.
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- Up to 18 different versions of your plan can be saved for quick recall.
- Data in any version can easily be erased and the version reused by
- using the F6 key; "F6=ERASE" appears on the bottom line of each input
- screen. (Or, alternately, the four data files ending with .DAT could
- be copied to another disk or renamed using DOS, in which case there is
- no limit to the number of data file sets that can be saved. Using DOS
- to copy or rename data files is NOT required however.) The four RQM
- data files are identified with the *.DAT extension as explained below.
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- REQUIRED HARDWARE
- > IBM PC or compatible computer.
- > 256k bytes of RAM memory.
- > One floppy disk drive or a hard drive.
- > Monochrome monitor.
- > A dot-matrix or laser printer is a
- desirable addition for print-outs
- of the plan versions created.
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- REQUIRED SOFTWARE > DOS 2.1 or higher.
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- REQUIRED FILES
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- This disk contains version 1.21 of RETIREMENT QUICK-MONITOR
- dated 2-15-91. This disk should contain the following files:
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- QUICK.DOC - Abbreviated text
- README.DOC - This introductory text
- REGISTER.DOC - Registration payment form
- RQM.EXE - Main program
- RQM110.FRM - Program overlay
- RQM210.FRM - Program overlay
- RQM310.FRM - Program overlay
- RQM410.FRM - Program overlay
- RQMSMPL1.DTA - Sample data file
- RQMSMPL2.DTA - Sample data file
- RQMSMPL3.DTA - Sample data file
- RQMSMPL4.DTA - Sample data file
- RQM110.DAT - User data files
- RQM210.DAT - created by the
- RQM310.DAT - program when
- RQM410.DAT - first run.
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- GETTING STARTED
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- Make a backup copy of the program disk.
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- To use this program from your FLOPPY DISK DRIVE:
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- 1. Place the disk in drive A
- 2. Type: A: and then press ENTER
- 3. To start the program, type: RQM
- and then press ENTER
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- NOTE: The program files (listed above), and all of
- the data files must be on the same floppy disk.
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- For faster processing, you can load this program onto your
- HARD DISK. (This program does NOT require any adjustment of
- the AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS files on your hard disk.)
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- To install on a HARD DISK:
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- 1. Change to the drive and subdirectory onto
- which you would like install the program.
- 2. Place the disk in drive A
- 3. From the DOS prompt on your chosen drive,
- type: COPY A:*.* and then press ENTER
- 4. To start the program, type: RQM and
- then press ENTER
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- NOTE: The program files (listed above), and all of the
- data files must be in the same subdirectory.
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- DISCLAIMER
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- This software is provided "AS IS," there are no warranties, expressed
- or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of
- performance, mechantability, or fitness for a particular purpose, and
- all such warranties are expressly and specifically disclaimed. The
- accuracy of this software cannot be guaranteed. In no event will
- the Author be liable for any damages, including any lost profits, lost
- savings or other incidental or consequential damages arising out of the
- use or inability to use such software even if the Author has been
- advised of the possibility of such damages or claims. This disclaimer
- shall be governed by the laws of the State of Florida and shall inure
- to the benefit of Rod Hoisington, his successors, administrators, heirs
- and assigns.
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- THIS IS USER-SUPPORTED SOFTWARE
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- This program has been placed in circulation under the "SHAREWARE"
- concept. Shareware distribution gives users a chance to try soft-
- ware before buying it. If you try a Shareware program and continue
- using it, you are expected to Register by sending the required fee
- to the Author.
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- Shareware is a distribution method, not a type of software. The
- Shareware system makes fitting your needs easier, because you can
- try before you buy. And because overhead is low, prices are low
- also. Shareware has the ultimate money-back guarantee -- if you
- don't use the product, you don't pay for it.
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- Copyright laws apply to both Shareware and commercial software, and
- the copyright holder retains all rights. Although it is protected
- by copyright, you are encouraged to try it out, copy it, and pass
- it around freely. If you like it, and use it, then a Registration
- Fee is requested.
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- Commercial users of RETIREMENT QUICK-MONITOR must register and pay
- for their copies of RETIREMENT QUICK-MONITOR within 30 days of first
- use or their license is withdrawn. Site-License arrangements may be
- made by contacting Rod Hoisington.
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- Anyone distributing RETIREMENT QUICK-MONITOR for any kind of
- remuneration must first contact the author, Rod Hoisington, at the
- address below for authorization. This authorization will be auto-
- matically granted to distributors recognized by The Association
- of Shareware Professionals (ASP) as adhering to its guidelines for
- shareware distributors, and such distributors may begin offering
- RETIREMENT QUICK-MONITOR immediately (however, the author, Rod
- Hoisington must still be advised so that the distributor can be kept
- up-to-date with the lastest version of RETIREMENT QUICK-MONITOR.)
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- This program is produced by a member of the ASSOCIATION OF
- SHAREWARE PROFESSIONALS (ASP). ASP wants to make sure that the
- shareware principle works for you. If you are unable to resolve a
- shareware-related problem with an ASP member by contacting the
- member directly, ASP may be able to help. The ASP Ombudsman can
- help you resolve a dispute or problem with an ASP member, but does
- not provide technical support for members' products. Please write
- to the ASP Ombudsman at 545 Grover Road, Muskegon MI 49442-9427 or
- send a Compuserve message via Compuserve Mail to ASP Ombudsman
- 70007,3536.
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- Retirement QUICK-MONITOR (tm) Registration Payment Form
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- The Registration Fee for this software is $35. Like all
- good software, this program is improved and and upgraded
- from time to time. By registering, in addition to the
- right to use RETIREMENT QUICK-MONITOR, you will receive:
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- > A registered copy of the next version (5 1/4" disk)
- when released,
- > notices of updates, upgrades, enhancements and
- other programs,
- > plus technical support by mail from the author for
- a period of one year.
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- NAME __________________________________________ DATE _________
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- COMPANY NAME __________________________________
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- ADDRESS _______________________________________
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- CITY,STATE,ZIP ________________________________
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- TELEPHONE _____________________________________
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- WHICH VERSION OF RETIREMENT QUICK-MONITOR ARE YOU
- PRESENTLY USING? Ver# 1.21 ?
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- WHAT MAKE/MODEL COMPUTER DO YOU USE? __________________________
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- HOW DID YOU OBTAIN THIS COPY OF THIS SHAREWARE? _______________
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- _______________________________________________________________
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- Please mail your check or money order for $35
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- TO:
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- Rod Hoisington
- PO Box 839
- Key Largo, FL 33037
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- THANK YOU AND HAVE A COMFORTABLE RETIREMENT!
- 215101
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- ________________________
- COMMENT FORM
- ________________________
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- Your comments regarding this software are welcome.
- Please fill out this form or write me with your comments.
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- Name _______________________________________________
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- Address ____________________________________________
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- City,State,Zip _____________________________________
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- Retirement QUICK-MONITOR Ver. # _____ Date __________
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- __________________________________________________________________
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- Please mail comments to:
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- Rod Hoisington
- PO Box 839
- Key Largo, FL 33037
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- Suggestions for improvements are welcome. If your suggestion is
- used, you will receive a free updated version which incorporates
- your suggestion.
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- You are encouraged to pass along a copy of RETIREMENT QUICK-MONITOR
- to your friends for evaluation. Please encourage them to register
- their copy if they find that they can use it. All registered users
- will receive a copy of the latest version of the program. Thank you.
-
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- Copyright 1990-1991 Rod Hoisington ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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- This text can be printed with the command COPY README.DOC PRN
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