Release Notes Dec 12, 2023

Enhancements release 1.0

December 12, 2023

Since we announced the soft launch of The People’s Economist several months ago, we’ve made a number of enhancements outlined below. Despite only being in soft launch with little to no marketing, we’ve reached nearly 40K page views.

1)     Added an economics dashboard: Our dashboard includes several measures ranging from inflation to production to employment to housing to consumer data and interest rates. Click on the measure to view the historical data.

https://www.tpehub.com/economic-dashboard

2)     Added a college cost comparison tool (which complements our student loan calculator). This tool allows you to compare critical metrics for most colleges in the country. The measures include income, cost and graduation rate. Future versions will include more metrics and a quantitative measure of return on investment. This will be integrated with our student loan tool so that prospective students and their parents can make more informed decisions.

https://www.tpehub.com/college-score-calculator

3)     Historical data from our fixed income dashboard (both Credit Spreads and Treasuries). Just click on the specific measure or instrument you’re interested in.

https://www.tpehub.com/fixed-income-dashboard

4)     Chatbot supercharged: Using Large Language Models (LLM) and our proprietary technology and knowledge base our chatbot interaction has dramatically improved (try it – let us know what you think). The non-registered chatbot version of TPEHub is upgraded but you need to register to include the memory aspect of our LLM technology (i.e. for true conversations and follow-up questions). In addition to incorporating LLM we improved our chatbot controls and added the ability to use the chatbot on your budget and investment portfolios (the latter two still being refined).

TPE is unique in being the only fully animated large language model driven personal finance chatbot. 

5)     Home valuation tool enhancements: We added the ability to add a user dial to the model valuation. This will enable the TPE model to update over time while at the same time allowing the user to correct for any model bias.

We also linked our home valuation tool to our portfolio tool. If you run our portfolio tool and you saved a property on the home valuation tool our portfolio tool will detect this and prompt you to add it to the portfolio. The home value will automatically be updated in your portfolio. 

https://www.tpehub.com/portfolio-valuation-calculator

https://www.tpehub.com/home-valuation-calculator

6)     Added a bubble chart to our portfolio valuation tool.

https://www.tpehub.com/portfolio-valuation-calculator

7)     Added solvers to our retirement calculator. You can now solve for investment returns, expenses and income – either before or after retirement targeting a specific networth or estate value.

https://www.tpehub.com/retirement-calculator 

8)     Home purchase tool enhancements: Added new features to our home purchase tool including ability to add web links to the property and other features such as the ability to add amenities and parking. We also added the ability to have a collaborator on the home purchase tool so you can share with another member of the family or a partner.

https://www.tpehub.com/home-purchase-tool

9)  Research and Knowledge Portal: We recently added a new research and knowledge section. We have already posted near 15 articles with more on the away. Most of the articles are consumer oriented while the research is more broadly targeted.

https://www.tpehub.com/knowledge-and-research/news