Finance & Banking · Personal Finance

The Retirement Game

Compress 43 years of retirement decisions into five decade rounds. Riley Carter starts at 22 with a $40k salary and a 401(k) packet on the desk. Capture the match, pick the cheap fund, ride the compound chart against three peer benchmarks, and see what your 22-year-old self really chose at 65.

5 rounds MBA & Masters English, Español
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Who it is for

An intermediate simulation for participants who already know the core concepts of the subject, designed for master's and MBA programmes.

How a session runs

  1. The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
  2. Participants play 5 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results.
  3. The simulation can be run in English, Español.
  4. The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.

Decisions participants make

The decisions participants make during the simulation:

  • 401(k) Contribution Rate (%)
  • Roth Split (% of contribution to Roth)
  • Investment Fund
  • Decade Decision

What participants track

What participants follow on screen as the rounds go by:

  • Compound Growth vs. Peers
  • Decade History

Subjects covered

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