Schweser SS4, p313, this has got to be wrong? Answer C to the Example question… says can gift $2.5m-£1.85m to charity. SURELY NOT??? Is this not the amount of money they need to live on until they reach the 10th year? If they gave the remainder away, surely they’d run out of cash at th 10th year???
The paragraph underneath on Safety Reserve says they’d run out at age 100, but that doesn’t make sense? The table says they need $1.85m over the next 10 years doesn’t it?
Thank you for your help! Tell me am not going insane?
the present value of their cash flow needs until death is 1.85.
so theoretically they can give the difference today to charity and have just enough.
the safety reserve paragraph simply says that you need to be a bit more conservative and realize that mortality tables are not completely accurate and you may outlive them so you should keep some kind of reseeve on hand moreso than the 647,998 that the core cappital calc is telling u to keep.
^ ditto. Too late in the game to be doing Schweser. They have some mistakes, the info is too broad, and it is not worth taking the chance of seeing something that is wrong and remembering it that way. L3 Schweser is not like L1 or L2 from what I can tell.
Yes, blue boxes and end of chapter problems, CFA online exams, old CFA exams. I am only using Schweser flash cards to review overall concepts at this point and that is basically the consensus on AF.
yikes. I bought Schweser for its extra questions (been reading CFAI and doing Schweser Qs since L1) and didn’t realize Schweser Qs for L3 were bad until now :S. First the exams were bad (roy Safety First Q) and now their regular material is bad? There should be disclaimers on AF for those who are thinking of purchasing L3 Schweser.
Ya nothing wrong with the question, I was just stating overall. I think there value in the Schweser Exams still and I did all of them. Its just with 9 days until the exam I am doing CFAI only.