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Retirement Planner ยท AU
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Pension policy from 20 September 2026
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Plan your retirement, without the spreadsheet.

Australian super, Age Pension, healthcare, and property โ€” all in one place. Fill in what you know on the left; numbers on the right update as you type.

Rules as at 20 September 2026.

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Plan to โ€”
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Super โ€”
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until retirement
Household
You
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Enter 65โ€“120 for a fixed planning horizon. Enter 0 to simulate until the money runs out (models to age 120 โ€” useful for stress-testing longevity risk).
Female life tables โ†’ mean ~87 ยท Male โ†’ ~84 (ABS 2020-22). Used only when Monte Carlo longevity sampling is enabled.
Your AU residency & earnings history
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Used for Age Pension AWLR. 10 years for full pension. Leave 0 if born in AU.
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Partner
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Enter 0 to simulate the partner to age 120 (open-ended).
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Conservative6 / 10Aggressive
Behavioural assessment
Employment income
Partner income and super fields are hidden and excluded while Household is set to Single. Switch to Couple to restore the saved partner values.
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Some employers quote salary as base salary plus super; others quote a total package including super. This calculator converts package-inclusive income into cash salary and employer SG before running tax and retirement projections.
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Superannuation balance
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Outside super
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Current household cashflow
Not itemised yet.
Off: spending is estimated from ABS household averages using your household type, dependents, healthcare and rent. On: itemise it, or enter your exact total below; it is used as-is. A $0 total still uses the estimate.
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Leave at 0 to estimate take-home income from salary, salary sacrifice and private health cover.
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Include all living, housing, healthcare and children's day-to-day costs. Exclude mortgage and loan repayments, school fees, child support, maintenance, family support, monthly investing and salary sacrifice entered elsewhere: each is counted on its own line and stops at its own end date.
Super strategy
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Pre-tax. Auto-filled with your remaining concessional cap after employer SG. Edit to override.
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Auto-filled with partner's remaining concessional cap after employer SG. Edit to override.
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Calculated after income details are entered.
Use this if your employer pays a different rate from the standard SG, for example under an enterprise agreement or a negotiated package. The rate applies to your whole salary each year, with no maximum contribution base. For package including super, cash salary is the package divided by (1 + this rate).
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Calculated after income details are entered.
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Up to $540 tax offset for contributions to a lower-earning spouse.
First Home Super Saver (FHSS)
Reduced income scenario
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Additional income sources
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Regular voluntary support to family members (parents, siblings, relatives). Always applied to projections โ€” separate from the carer expense below.
Ongoing legal obligations
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Spousal maintenance and child support reduce your savings capacity but are not deductible for the Centrelink income test โ€” they do not directly reduce your Age Pension assessment. Super is unaffected (super splitting is a separate one-time event).
Family carer
Primary residence
Your living arrangement affects the Age Pension assets test. Homeowners have a lower asset threshold for the full pension.
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Enter the amount you actually pay. Leave at $0 only to use the calculated 30-year minimum.
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Part of your cash savings above, not extra money. It cuts the loan interest instead of earning savings interest.
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On top of the repayment above. It clears the loan sooner and cuts the interest.
No: the repayment and any extra come out of the spending you entered, and once the loan clears that money goes to your surplus.
If you downsize, you may contribute up to $300,000 (each) of proceeds into super outside the usual contribution caps. Must be aged 55+ and have owned the home for 10+ years. Enable only if you plan to downsize.
Selling a property before retirement
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For a home sold through the downsize plan, or an investment property sold (Sell at age) before you retire. The rest stays outside super. A home uses the downsizer contribution first (55+, owned 10+ years, $300k each), then the non-concessional cap; anything over the caps stays outside super.
Other debts
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Investment property
Primary Home

Your primary place of residence (PPOR). No rental income and no CGT on sale (main residence exemption applies), unless part is rented or you were away long enough to lose it.

Investment Properties

Detailed cashflow, tax, and CGT modelling for each investment property. Uses historical anchors for 2018/2022/2024 purchases; stochastic from 2027 onwards.

Planned Property Purchases
Property Tax Policy

"Current rules" apply the law, including the Tax Reform No. 1 Act 2026: from 1 July 2027 the 50% CGT discount applies only to gains accrued before that date, later gains use an indexed cost base with a 30% minimum tax, and established dwellings bought after 12 May 2026 have their rental losses quarantined. The "what-if" scenario lets you vary those settings.

The what-if settings are planning assumptions, not the law.
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50% discount for assets held more than 12 months, on gains accrued before 1 July 2027.
Property Monte Carlo
Property vs ETF / Super Comparison
Sell / Keep / Downsize Strategy
Disclaimer: Property calculations are estimates only. Tax, CGT, and land tax calculations are approximate. Settings labelled "what-if" are planning assumptions, not the law. Consult a qualified financial adviser and tax professional before making property investment decisions.
Self-Managed Super Fund (SMSF)
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SMSF regulatory note: ASIC recommends a balance of at least $200kโ€“$500k to justify ongoing costs. Balances below $300k may result in higher fees as a proportion of assets. Read the SMSF guide โ†’
Gifts & transfers
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Money you give away each year (e.g. to children). Over $10,000 a year, or $30,000 over five years (a couple combined), counts as a deprived asset for the Age Pension for five years.
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The share attributed to you (trust attribution %) stays assessable through the trust; the rest is treated as a gift.
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Trust assets & control
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Trust assets may be attributed to you for Age Pension means testing if you have control. Consult a financial adviser. Trusts & companies guide โ†’
ASFA June 2026 quarter. Couple: Modest $52,690 ยท Comfortable $78,998. Premium ($110k) is a planning estimate. Figures update automatically when you switch to Single above.
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ASFA June 2026 quarter. Couple: Modest $52,690 ยท Comfortable $78,998. Use presets above or enter your own target.
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Translation: $1,410/week ยท $6,111/month. Inflated to future dollars automatically.
Manual desired income
Build my retirement income target (optional)

This optional builder estimates your desired annual retirement income from housing, healthcare, travel, lifestyle and other spending. Where possible, values already entered elsewhere are reused. You can either use this total as your Desired annual income or keep entering Desired annual income manually.

Derived from existing inputs
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Synced from salary and household type.
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Synced from the primary residence mortgage when applicable.
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Synced from Annual healthcare cost.
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Synced from rent, family board, or other housing cost when you do not own a home.
Editable retirement lifestyle assumptions
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Editable estimate of monthly costs likely to stop at retirement.
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Optional buffer added to the builder total.
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Legacy & Inheritance Planning
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Amount you want to leave to children, charity, or estate. Set to 0 to spend everything.
Sets your intent for how the plan is assessed. The amount and priority are passed to the simulation engine and displayed in the recommendation output.
Super left to someone who is not a dependant for tax is taxed on its taxable part. Non-concessional and downsizer contributions are tax-free. The plan ends with the last survivor, so a partner is not counted as an heir. Estate goals are measured after this tax.
Future Home or Property Plan scenario only

Optional modelling for buying, inheriting, selling, or paying off property later. This is excluded from the base projection unless Include in base projection is explicitly selected.

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Expected Future Windfall / Inheritance scenario only

This is a simple scenario input only. It does not model legal, tax, CGT, deceased-estate, trust or super death-benefit rules. Use it only as a rough planning assumption.

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Speculative windfalls should not be relied upon and do not improve the base projection unless you explicitly include them.
Sets your target lifestyle tier. This updates Desired annual income (plus lifestyle/travel uplift above) and is also used in Suggestions.
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Home Modification & Mobility
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One-off expense for mobility ramps, bathroom mods, or other age-related home improvements.
Aged care
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In today's dollars. Residential care from 1 Nov 2025: basic daily fee ~$24k (85% of the single Age Pension) + hotelling and non-clinical care contributions up to ~$47k if your means test asks for them + accommodation. The model grows it with CPI, as these fees are indexed to the Age Pension and CPI, not healthcare inflation. Source: Aged Care Act 2024 fee schedule.
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RBA target 2โ€“3%. AU CPI median 2.60%. Treated as the long-run mean. Under the economy path below it wanders year to year, clusters in regimes and spikes in pinned crises; Monte Carlo draws a different path per run.
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Treated as the long-run mean. The economy path below draws each year's listed return around it with fat tails, regimes and any crises you pin.
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AU balanced super median ~7.50% (APRA). Treated as the long-run mean; the economy path draws each year around it and a pinned 2008-like crash takes 25% off a balanced fund.
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Median across high-yield savings (~5%), term deposits (~4.5%) and standard accounts (~1%) in 2025. Treated as the long-run mean; the economy path moves it with the rate cycle. Adjust for your actual mix.
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Enter 0.03 for a 0.03 percentage-point annual decline. Unsafe legacy units are migrated and flagged.
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Rent is its own series, not CPI. If property prices outrun rent, yield falls; if rent outruns price, yield rises. KPMG's 2026โ€“27 view is about 3.5%.
Economy path Your rates are means, not laws
Even the "expected" projection now runs on a seeded path: inflation, super, listed returns, property, rent, salary and the variable mortgage rate all wander year to year, with regimes so bad years cluster. Flat is kept only for comparison.
The same seed always draws the same future. Re-roll to see a different one; Monte Carlo draws hundreds regardless.
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0 = variable now. The investment-loan interest follows the path's rate once the fixed term ends.
Off means your rates are calm-year rates and every crisis is pure downside.
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Law from 1 July 2026 taxes realised earnings above the indexed $3M / $10M per person. A buy-and-hold SMSF realises less; a fund that turns over realises more.
Pinned crises start counted from now; retirement is just another year on the axis

This is not a forecast of which crisis happens. It is a test of whether your plan survives the crises you are willing to look at.

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Feeds the "Helpful hints" card: capital needed at a blended global yield versus AU high-yield versus US broad.
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Suggestions runs a full Monte Carlo for every scenario it tests (12–28 of them), so this setting multiplies. Lowering it is the fastest way to shorten the wait. Measured against 16,000 runs on a sample household, no setting from 500 up changed which suggestions were recommended. What moves is the dollar estimate, and most on the smallest one: at 2,000 runs three of four scenarios were within 4% and the smallest was 13% out, while at 500 the smallest was 76% out.
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When enabled, each Monte Carlo run draws a different lifespan from Australian mortality data (ABS 2020-22) rather than your fixed lifespan. Shows the full spread of longevity risk โ€” some runs end at 75, others at 103. Your gender setting calibrates the distribution. Disable for deterministic scenarios.
[Not yet law] When enabled, also projects measures that are still bills: the 30% minimum tax on discretionary trust distributions from FY 2028-29 (introduced 14 October 2026). The 14% rate and WATO (from FY 2027-28), the $1,000 standard work deduction (FY 2026-27), the 1 July 2027 CGT changes and the negative-gearing limit are now law and always applied. Unchecked = current law only.
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These optional settings model real costs that typically arise in later retirement. All are disabled by default โ€” enable only what applies to your situation. Linked to your downsize plan: if you plan to downsize, ongoing maintenance costs are automatically removed.
Home modifications
One-off cost to adapt your home for mobility or safety (ramps, grab rails, bathroom refit, etc.).
Longevity insurance (annuity)
Model the purchase of a guaranteed income stream (annuity or similar product like a Lifetime Income Stream) at a specific age. This provides certainty against outliving your super.
Tiered spending by retirement stage
Research shows retirement spending follows a "smile" curve. The early "Active" years have high lifestyle spending; the middle "Stable" years decline; the late "Frail" years rise sharply due to care costs. Enable to apply custom multipliers per stage.
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Disclaimer: Educational and planning purposes only. Results are estimates based on inputs and should not be considered financial advice. Australian tax, superannuation, and pension regulations change. Consult a qualified financial adviser.