I use PRT and S&P.

They are a little weak in that area as far as their ‘home grown’ technology, at least for the SAM program.

does the S&P do a good job with portfolio hypotheticals, or are you better off splurging on the Morningstar product?

i'm in a hurry over here-

does anyone have any comments/advise for software that runs portfolio hypotheticals?

cost and effectiveness are issues- Morningstar seems to have a nice $2500 per year option- but if i can save some $$ and accomplish the same thing, i'm all for it-

what's everyone using??

I don’t use hypos, but for research I use CSFB and S&P.  Both serve my needs well.

I simply print the S&P tearsheets on the funds, and use PRT to show the asset allocation.

You can give people too much written information and then they ignore it or become paralyzed and don’t make a decision.

I seem to recall that S&P can do hypos.  They’re ok.

I actually do the exact same as joedabrkr. I use PRT and fundsheets. I dont do hypo’s.

[quote=blinvest]I actually do the exact same as joedabrkr. I use PRT and fundsheets. I dont do hypo's. [/quote]

Joe does, that how he comes up with, "$1,000 per month for twenty years, componding at 34% will be eleventy kabillion dollars by the time you retire."

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[quote=blinvest]I actually do the exact same as joedabrkr. I use PRT and fundsheets. I dont do hypo’s. [/quote]

Joe does, that how he comes up with, "$1,000 per month for twenty years, componding at 34% will be eleventy kabillion dollars by the time you retire."

My legacy lives on!

Can we get back on topic here.  Please.

Texas, what kind of beer do you have?  Its Friday and I'm thirsty. 

I'll be having a Goose Island Mathilda mixed in with a few Bell's Oberon.

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I'll be having a Goose Island Mathilda mixed in with a few Bell's Oberon.

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...say what??

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Can we get back on topic here.  Please.

Texas, what kind of beer do you have?  Its Friday and I'm thirsty. 

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Lone Star or Shiner Bock?

Mathilda (based on the Belgian Trappist Orval) and Oberon (german style kolsch) are brewed by large regionals here in the Midwest.  This isn't going anywhere, is it?

I'll have a Shiner thanks

[quote=BrokerRecruit]My legacy lives on![/quote]

Don’t you need to be dead to have a legacy?

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Mathilda (based on the Belgian Trappist Orval) and Oberon (german style kolsch) are brewed by large regionals here in the Midwest.  This isn't going anywhere, is it?

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sounds horrible, especially on a hot texas day- i try not to drink anything heavier than 30-weight in the summer.

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I'll have a Shiner thanks

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now we're talkin'--

Oberon is the PERFECT beer for a hot summer day.  Hell, the logo is a sun!  Mathilda isn't dark either. 

But I hear you about drinking beers 'in season'.  Guiness just doesn't do it unless is cold and/or rainy

[quote=Starka]I don't use hypos, but for research I use CSFB and S&P.  Both serve my needs well.[/quote]

what does CSFB give you that S&P does not?

Does anyone have a source for historical stock hypotheticals that will show what the historic appreciation would be in dollars, along with historic dividend payments, again in dollars? I would think this would be available somewhere online, wouldn’t it? Looking to run one on a closed end fund in particular, but stocks might be helpful as well.

[quote=joedabrkr] [quote=BrokerRecruit]My legacy lives on![/quote]

Don't you need to be dead to have a legacy?
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I don't know.  It was Friday - I had free beer on my mind and in my belly.