In this series of short articles, The Skilled Investor compares the functionality of the Quicken and VeriPlan financial lifecycle planners. At the bottom of this article you will find links to the previous topic and the next topic. A link is also provided that returns you to the main topic listing of this comparison.*
VeriPlan Personal Financial Lifecycle Planner
VeriPlan runs in a standalone configuration with local data storage. VeriPlan (Release 2007A) runs on any moderately powerful personal computer that supports Microsoft Excel version 2002 or later.
VeriPlan automatically and instantaneously revises your complete projection after each modification.
Quicken Retirement Planner
The Deluxe, Premier, and Home & Office versions of Quicken 2007 include the Quicken Retirement Planner. Quicken is supported on Windows and Macintosh. Quicken Retirement Planner runs in a standalone configuration with local data storage. When you link your Quicken Retirement Planner to other personal accounts tracked in Quicken, you can automatically update these accounts to current market values for use in your Quicken Retirement Planner projection baseline.
Revised projections are developed instantaneously, after you make modifications to the Quicken Retirement Planner.
<< Previous Topic* Lawrence Russell and Company is the publisher of The Skilled Investor and the developer of VeriPlan. The Skilled Investor has made an attempt to characterize factually the functionality of both the Quicken Retirement Planner and VeriPlan.
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