The use of Monte Carlo investment analysis tools in the financial services industry may become more prevalent in the wake of a recent NASD rule change. The amendment, approved by the SEC in September, ...

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Bob’s financial advisor just ran a “Monte Carlo analysis” for him.What’s a “Monte Carlo analysis”?It’s a tool used to test how a person’s retirement savings and plan would hold up given a variety of ...

Not all Spice versions perform Monte Carlo simulations. Even those that do may only have a small number of available distributions, much less custom ones. LTSpice, for example, has built-in random ...

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