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Douglas Uhlenhake replied about a month ago
That is correct!
It is strictly as Thomas Fisher, CFP described to you. It is the annual indexing for inflation for example where you enter a percentage that says increase the savings amount by a certain percentage each year; paying more each year than you paid the previous year. And the difference between the two years is the percentage such as 3%. For example, at 3% savings indexing you would for save lets say in year 1 - $100, year 2 - $103, year 3 - 106.09 and so on... and infinite series is assumed unless the calculator in question or the Financial software includes a field to enter a number of years to index the savings or whatever is being indexed, or a field for a specific ending date to be entered at which time the calculation would stop.
The term indexing here in your question, and the calculator has nothing to do with Index Funds that mirror other aggregated indexes such as the DOW or the S&P500 or a certain group of stocks, bonds or ETF's for example. With new investment products coming out at various times, I can foresee the possibility that some index fund product designer could figure out a creative way to expand it beyond what is possible today.













