ESPlanner Financial Planning Software

Free Download for Boston University Employees

Traditional financial planning asks you to do all the hard work. It makes you set your own saving and life insurance targets. This puts you at risk. Set your targets too low and you’ll under save and under insure. Set them too high and you’ll over save and over insure.

Economic Security Planner (ESPlanner™), developed by Boston University Professor Laurence Kotlikoff and other leading economists, finds the right targets. It calculates your family’s highest sustainable living standard and the amounts you need to save and insure to maintain that living standard through time.

If you are a Boston University employee, you may download ESPlanner for free by submitting your name and University ID number below. In order to download this software, you will need an Academic Computing Services (ACS) login account and Kerberos password. If you do not have an ACS account and wish to learn more about setting one up and obtaining a Kerberos password, please visit the Information Technology website.

ESPlanner V2 uses Microsoft Excel to display reports. You must have Excel installed prior to installation of ESPlanner. ESPlanner will run using Excel in any of the following products: Microsoft Office 2000, XP, and 2003. ESPlanner does not support Office 97, Microsoft Works, or Star Office.

ESPlanner will run on Windows 98 or newer operating systems. A minimum of 500Mhz clock speed and 512 megabytes of memory is recommended. If you are planning to run Monte Carlo simulations in ESPlanner Plus, a 1Ghz or better system is recommended.

On the MacIntosh platform, ESPlanner will run on the Connectix Virtual PC, but you must also have a Windows version of Excel installed in the Windows environment.

To learn more about ESPlanner and examine research studies based on ESPlanner, please visit www.esplanner.com.

View the ESPlanner tutorial, which is also included with the ESPlanner Installation Kit.

For technical support, please send e-mail messages to info@esplanner.com.

Please complete the required fields below and click the "Submit" button. You will be prompted for your ACS username and Kerberos password. After logging in, a new page will appear with the web address for the ESPlanner software download.

First Name:

Last Name:

University ID Number:

Email Address:

Your University ID Number begins with a "U" and is followed by eight numbers. DO NOT ENTER YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER.