Astute Add-on Calculators

Income Calculator Suite

Four income calculators that will empower you to:

• Quickly and easily identify how much tax a client is paying
• Demonstrate how tax can be reduced using various strategies
• Model the effect of using pre-tax dollars to boost your superannuation rather than using after-tax dollars for a non-super investment
• Model and see the effects of income splitting strategies
• Demonstrate the effects of CGT on sale of an asset
• Prompt a discussion on life insurance based on live client data displayed for net income and spending.

Investment Calculator Suite

Four investment calculators to:

• Quickly demonstrate various investment options to the client graphically
• Compare and contrast investment options based on your client’s risk profile, tax rate and investment horizon
• Model lump sum investments, geared investments, savings plans, geared savings plans or a combination of each strategy

Debt Calculator Suite

Astute Debt Planner’s three calculators allow for:

• Live modelling of cashflow and cost of debt
• Modelling the effects of interest types and rates on cashflow
• Demonstrating mortgage reduction strategies
• Illustrating wealth creation strategies and identify ‘good’ and ‘bad’ debt to your client.

Insurance Calculator Suite

Six powerful insurance modelling calculators that will:

• Accurately confirm the clients’ details and assumptions, for precise control of insured amounts
• Determine cover required should either partner not survive
• Determine a client’s income protection options and wishes with ease
• Instantly illustrate the effects of TPD cover settings on their annual cashflow
• Visually show detail on the components of their trauma needs and what accumulated lump sum might be required.

Retirement Calculator Suite

Three important modelling calculators for use in:

• Giving your client a clear snapshot of their current retirement trajectory
• Easily identify client’s outstanding mortgage on retirement and the impact of non -super debt and investments to get a true retirement outcome
• Modelling the effects of delayed retirement, salary sacrificing, one-off contributions or perhaps a more aggressive investment stance
• Resolving the difficulty of explaining TTR rules and visually demonstrates the benefits of your proposed transition to Retirement strategy
• Accurately determine expected age pension for your client and make live presentation of strategies to improve their circumstances.

Estate Calculator Suite

Add this suite of calculators to Astute Client Engager or Astute Financial Planner to:

• Automatically educate clients on crucial estate planning terms
• Prompt considered responses to tough questions they’ll need to make prior to meeting with you
• Automatically build a family tree diagram that illustrates family structures, even complex blended families
• Provide a visual representation of how your client’s assets are owned and controlled
• Show the assets held by each entity by hovering over any icon for an entity
• Instantly demonstrate to your client how various assets could be treated in their estate plan should either of them, or both, become deceased.

More advisers can now enter this previously specialist field of financial advice. Our set of estate planning tools now makes the process of protecting your clients’ estate into an expedient and profitable journey.