Please create a mechanism input inherited (non-spousal) IRAs that would accomodate the required minimum distributions that come with them. Not sure how to account for these in the current progam: put the RMDs as special annual receipts (laborious)? Leave it as a regular IRA (not accurate and won't reflect the annual income that starts immediately, not at retirement)? This would be helpful.
Thanks.
Doug Kamerow
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Probably not going to happen soon, but the place to post feature request is in the support forum. There are technical reasons for not dealing with inherited IRAs since we would have to carry around another state variable for the different kind of asset in the Monte Carlo simulator which would slow things down some more.
Short term, the best you are going to be able to do is to add special receipts for the draws from the inherited IRA.
Best,
Dick Munroe