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p.70, Table 4.1 - The retirement accumulations for the Nikkei are wrong due to an incorrect JPY-USD exchange rate. (The percent improvements remain unchanged.) Here are the correct values:
Constant % (75/75) Strategy |
Diversifying (200/83%) Strategy |
Improvement over Constant % |
|
| Mean Result | ¥47,456,260 |
¥89,921,323 |
89.5% |
| Min. Result | ¥22,861,600 |
¥29,874,567 |
30.7% |
| 10th pct. | ¥25,510,898 |
¥34,630,069 |
35.7% |
| 25th pct. | ¥30,716,590 |
¥43,951,994 |
43.1% |
| Median | ¥39,505,862 |
¥57,579,906 |
45.8% |
| 75th pct. | ¥54,514,618 |
¥100,160,958 |
83.7% |
| 90th pct. | ¥83,412,340 |
¥192,488,941 |
130.8% |
| Max. Result | ¥93,644,322 |
¥269,395,637 |
187.7% |
p.72, Figure 4.2 should look like this:
p.145, 4th ¶ (inset), line 2 – “all right” should be “alright”
p.158, last ¶, line 2 – “.CYULS” should be “.OBMLS” and “2010” should be “2011” and in line 5 – “2011” should be “2012”
p.160, 1st ¶, line 2 – “twenty-three” should be “thirty-five” and “slightly less than 0.8” should be “about 0.5”
p.160, 3rd ¶, line 10 – “2009 and 2010” should be “2010 and 2011” and in line 14 – “two” should be “three”
p.160, last ¶, line 1 – “$3.88” should be “$5.82” and in line 2 – “$4.88” should be “$6.82”
p.161, 1st ¶ – “twenty-three” should be “thirty-five” and “5.75” should be “5.28”
p.161, Figure 8.1 should be revised to this:
p.206, Chp.8, note 3, line 3 – “two-year” should be “three-year”
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