Category: Case Studies
Case Studies
Tue, Jul 9, 2019
Using Timeline with Voyant
‘How does Timeline work with Voyant?’
This is a question we get asked time and time again. We know many planners use both software. We totally get why. Voyant is a powerful cashflow planning software used by financial planners. Timeline illustrates and creates a sustainable withdrawal strategy for clients.
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Revisiting Capacity for Loss In Retirement
There's a lot of confusion around assessing capacity for loss, particularly for clients drawing down their portfolio. Much of it stems from the fact that the Regulator doesn't really seem to know how it should be assessed.
There appears to be two camps in this debacle. On one side, you have an ex-regulator, paraplanners and compliance consultants who seem to think that capacity for loss is the be-all and end-all. We’ll call them the ‘compliance camp’. On the other hand, you have financial planners at the coal face.
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Bengen’s 4% Rule Around The World
How much can I draw from my retirement savings without running out of money?
This is the 64-million-dollar question Bill Bengen attempted to answer in his seminal 1994 paper published in the Journal of Financial Planning.
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Retirement Income Plan For The Miggins II
The Miggins are back. See here for details but the headline is John and Jo Miggins are 65, recently retired with £300k in their retirement pot and a house with no mortgage.
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Retirement Income Plan for The Miggins
John and Jo Miggins have worked hard all their lives. They saved as much as they could and now they’re ready to retire.
They've paid off their mortgage and their home is worth £260k. Between them, they have £300k in their pension pots. And that’s it!
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