Financial planning is aligning your needs, values and goals with your finances, ultimately giving you peace of mind knowing that you’re on track to achieving financial independence. It starts with pinpointing the things that are important to you and identifying your financial goals.

Financial planning may involve managing your existing income and expenditure through cash flow modelling, saving for an early retirement or passing on your wealth to your family. Financial Planning brings all of these various elements together into one coherent and ongoing strategy.

Whatever your life goals are, financial planning will give you the answers you need; enabling you to focus on what’s important to you and giving you the freedom to enjoy life.

The value of financial planning

Throughout our lives, we face having to make financial decisions that can have a major impact on our wealth, as well as determining whether we meet our goals, and can protect ourselves and our families from unexpected events. A carefully thought-through financial plan can make a positive difference, no matter what life stage you’re at.

The value of investments and any income from them can fall as well as rise and you may not get back the original amount invested.

Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance and should not be relied upon.

Financial planning tools

One of the most visual ways we can help you plan for your financial future is by using a cash flow modelling tool. Our cash flow analysis system, allows us to input information about the current value of your investments and apply relevant assumptions about things like investment growth rates and key life events to create detailed and precise cash flow models based on your individual circumstances.

We use this information to assess what you are likely to need to save, the investment returns needed to achieve your goals and estimate whether your ongoing income is likely to be sufficient to sustain you for the rest of your life.