Build your own, personalised financial plan
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Premium Feature Highlights
- Set out your current financial situation in detail
- Include financial and life events planned for the future
- Choose how and when to take your pension
- Cashflow, assets & liabilities, income & expenses
- UK taxes (Income Tax, NICs, Capital Gains Tax, Inheritance Tax)
- Contributions to and withdrawals from savings & investments
- Detailed and summary views
- Explore different ways to take your pension and your pension income options
- Specify different investment types and asset classes
- Select contribution and withdrawal strategies
- Look at using home equity to fund retirement & later life
- See effects of higher inflation and/or lower investment returns
- Experiment with unexpected expenses or life events
- Create multiple scenarios
- Adjust your plan to respond better to adverse situations
- Review taxes projected for each year of your plan
- Identify unnecessary tax that could be reduced or avoided
- Try different approaches to reduce your lifetime tax bill
- Review your projected legacy and inheritance tax bill
- Try out strategies to reduce inheritance tax
- Find the right balance between gifting in your lifetime and gifting from your legacy
Premium Frequently Asked Questions
- Planner Premium is the enhanced, paid version of the Planner.
- Planner Premium is built on the same calculation platform as Planner Basic and offers access to enhanced features in two key areas:
- Full Plans: a much more extensive user interface that allows you to build detailed, personalised financial plans which make full use of our calculation platform.
- Extended Results: a more comprehensive projection with a broader range of analysis features, enabling you to explore the projection of your Full Plan in detail.
- Please find a full list of Premium features below.
- Due to the sophistication and detail of the features, Planner Premium is designed to work on a device with a larger screen and keyboard input: we recommend a laptop or desktop. Once you have built a Full Plan, you can also view a simplified set of projection results on a mobile device.
- If you have an unusual combination of browser, operating system and device, please check compatibility by reviewing a Demo Plan using Planner Basic (see below).
- We expect to continuously improve the Premium features over time and welcome feedback from Planner customers on what new features they would like to see.
- Planner Premium can be used by individual UK residents aged 18-75 but is primarily intended for customers aged 40-70 who want to explore choices for funding their retirement.
- Planner Premium is more suitable for customers who:
- want to plan their finances over their lifetimes
- have some knowledge of common financial products
- are comfortable with taking their own financial decisions
- currently have some assets or investments.
- MyFinanceFuture aims to support as broad a range of customers as possible, but Planner Premium doesn’t currently have the range of features required to support some groups of potential customers, including those who:
- are experiencing debt management issues
- are dependent on means-tested state benefits (such as Universal Credit), or expect to be dependent on them in the future
- have significantly reduced life expectancy (less than age 75)
- are in ill health (and so would qualify for additional rights and benefits, such as early access to pensions).
- We strongly recommend that you try out Planner Basic before upgrading to make sure that Planner Premium is right for you. You can do this by:
- creating and editing some Quick Plans, which will give you an initial feel for how the Planner works.
- reviewing some of the Demo Plans, which are view-only samples of Full Plans that allow you to experience the Premium features of the Planner. You can explore input items in every section of these plans and view all the results features, although you can't save any edits to them.
- Planner Premium gives you access to the Premium features of the Planner for a fixed period of time. Our current offer is for a 1-year period, but we may offer other subscription periods in the future.
- Planner Premium must be paid for in advance using a debit or credit card through our payment provider.
- To access Premium features you need to have a Planner account, which gives you access to Planner Basic. You can use the Premium features as soon as you’ve clicked through the Upgrade dialogue in the Planner, placed your order and successfully paid for your subscription. By placing your order you also agree to our latest Terms & Conditions and for us to give you immediate access to the Premium features.
- The normal 14-day UK statutory cooling-off period applies, but Planner Premium is treated as digital content so you will lose your statutory right to cancel and receive a refund once you start using it. We will normally consider your usage to start from when you have run your first projection of a Full Plan, so if you notice a problem while inputting your first Full Plan, please contact us so that we can help you solve it (or arrange a cancellation and refund if you prefer).
- Once you have starting using Planner Premium, your access will continue to the end of the subscription period, but there are some exceptional situations where you may have (or be given) the right to terminate early and receive a refund - please read the Planner Terms & Conditions.
- We want to help you create the best financial plan for you, so if you have questions about Planner Premium or are unhappy about any aspect of it, please let us know and we’ll try to put it right. The best way to contact us is to use the Contact Us form in the Planner, or on our website.
- We want you to feel in control of your relationship with us, so we do not offer auto-renewal of your Premium access. We will remind you about expiry of your access before reaching the end of your subscription period and offer you options to renew for further periods.
- If you don’t wish to renew your subscription, your Premium access will expire and you will revert back to Basic access at the end of your current subscription period. You will still be able to access your Full Plans on a view-only basis.
Detailed Premium Features List
Premium | |
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Plan Management | |
Create Plans | ✔ |
Copy, Rename, Set Active & Delete Plans | ✔ |
Multiple Plans | ✔ |
Quick Plans (Mobile & Desktop) | |
Inputs | |
Family: Individual, Married / Civil Partner, Children | ✔ |
Home: Main Home & Mortgage | ✔ |
Other Property / Net Assets / Income: Total Value & Income | ✔ |
Savings & Investments: Cash Savings, Taxable Investments, ISAs, DC Pensions | ✔ |
Earnings: Current Employment & Retirement Date | ✔ |
Spending: Current & Retirement | ✔ |
DB Pensions: Future Income / Lump Sum & Pension Date | ✔ |
Default Values | |
Workplace DC Pension Contributions, Future Pension Options | ✔ |
State Pension, Child Benefit (First Child), Retirement Spending | ✔ |
Contribution & Withdrawal Strategies for Cash, Pensions & Investments | ✔ |
Inflation, Returns & UK / English Tax Assumptions | ✔ |
Switch to Full | |
Populate Full Plan with Quick Plan Inputs & Default Values | ✔ |
Review Process to Accept / Edit Default Values | ✔ |
Full Plans (Desktop) | |
Family | |
Individual | ✔ |
Married / Civil Partner | ✔ |
Children | ✔ |
Cohabiting partner | ✔ |
Specify life expectancy (for self & partner) | ✔ |
Assets & Debts | |
Homes | |
Current Main Home | ✔ |
Current Mortgage on Main Home | ✔ |
Current Second / Additional Homes | ✔ |
Current Mortgage on Second / Additional Homes | ✔ |
Specify Individual or Joint Ownership and Ownership % | ✔ |
Home Disposal (Sale / Gift) | ✔ |
Move Home (Downsize) | ✔ |
Early Mortgage Repayment | ✔ |
Retirement Interest-Only Mortgage | ✔ |
Equity Release (Lifetime Mortgage) | ✔ |
Rental Properties | |
Current Residential/Commercial Rental Properties | ✔ |
Current Rental Income & Maintenance Expenses | ✔ |
Property Disposal (Sale/Gift) | ✔ |
Current Buy-to-Let Mortgages | ✔ |
Business Assets | |
Current Business Assets, Dividend Income & Disposals | ✔ |
Specify Assets Qualifying for BAD Relief (CGT) & 100% APR/BPR (IHT) | ✔ |
Other Assets & Debts | |
Current Personal Valuables | ✔ |
Current Household Assets | ✔ |
Asset Disposal Options (Sale / Gift) | ✔ |
Current Unsecured Debt Balance (Overdraft / Personal Loan / Credit Card) | ✔ |
Early Debt Repayment | ✔ |
Earnings & Pensions | |
Employment | |
Current Primary Employment / Self-Employment | ✔ |
Multiple Employments / Self-Employments | ✔ |
Future Changes in Employment (Promotions / Downshifts / Career Breaks) | ✔ |
Workplace Defined Contribution (DC) Pensions | |
DC Pension Contributions from Earnings | ✔ |
Specify Net Pay / Relief-at-Source / Salary Sacrifice | ✔ |
Specify Pensionable Earnings / Qualifying (Auto-Enrolment) Earnings | ✔ |
Workplace Defined Benefit (DB) Pensions | |
Active Workplace DB Pensions | ✔ |
Deferred Workplace DB Pensions | ✔ |
In-Payment Workplace DB Pensions | ✔ |
DB Pension Contributions from Earnings | ✔ |
Additional Voluntary Contribution (AVC) Schemes | ✔ |
DB Pension Benefits | |
Use Own Pension Quotation | ✔ |
Automatic Benefit Projection for Active DB Pensions | ✔ |
Specify Career Average Revalued Earnings (CARE) / Final Salary basis | ✔ |
Options for Commuting Pension Income to Cash Lump Sum | ✔ |
State Pension Deduction | ✔ |
AVC Scheme Linked to DB Pension for Tax-Free Cash Rights | ✔ |
State Pension | |
Current/Future State Pension | ✔ |
Savings & Investments | |
Account Types | |
Cash Savings | ✔ |
Taxable Investments | ✔ |
ISAs | ✔ |
Personal Pensions/SIPPs | ✔ |
Pension Flexible Income Drawdown | ✔ |
Savings & Investment Returns | |
Default Returns & Savings Rates | ✔ |
Specify Investment Asset Allocations & Returns | ✔ |
Specify Savings Rates | ✔ |
Specify Investment Fees | ✔ |
Contribution & Withdrawal Strategies | |
Contribution & Withdrawal Approach for Cash, Pensions & Investments | ✔ |
Specify Cash Emergency Fund & Withdrawal Buffer | ✔ |
Set Contribution Limit to Show 'Spend vs Save' Behaviour | ✔ |
Select Investment Contribution & Withdrawal Strategies | ✔ |
Select 'Bed & ISA' Transfers from Taxable Investments to ISAs | ✔ |
Prevent Discretionary Investment in Pensions Above the Lifetime Allowance | ✔ |
Use Available Personal Allowance to Reinvest DC Pension funds | ✔ |
Pension Options & Allowances | |
Early Pension Withdrawals (using UFPLS) | ✔ |
Specify Pension Allocations (to Tax Free Cash, Flexible Income Drawdown, Guaranteed Income (Annuity) and Taxable Cash Lump Sum) | ✔ |
Switch from Drawdown to Guaranteed Income (Annuity) in Later Life | ✔ |
Specify Protected Lump Sum / Lifetime Allowance | ✔ |
Specify Transitional Tax-Free Amount / Lifetime Allowance Previously Used Amount | ✔ |
Specify MPAA Already Triggered | ✔ |
Other Incomes | |
Child Benefit | |
Child Benefit | ✔ |
Guaranteed Incomes (Annuities) | |
Current/Future Lifetime Pension Annuities | ✔ |
Current/Future Purchased Life Annuities (PLA) | ✔ |
Specify Annuities (Single/Joint, Level/Escalating, Purchase Rate) | ✔ |
Other Incomes | |
Current Taxable Income | ✔ |
Multiple Incomes | ✔ |
Future Incomes | ✔ |
Non-taxable Incomes | ✔ |
One-off and Recurring Incomes | ✔ |
Specify Income Durations | ✔ |
Expenses | |
Expenses | |
Current Expenses | ✔ |
Retirement Expenses | ✔ |
Multiple Periods at Different Expense Levels Pre- and Post-Retirement | ✔ |
One-off and Recurring Expenses Linked to Life Events | ✔ |
Gifts | |
One-off and Recurring Cash Gifts | ✔ |
Economic & Tax Assumptions | |
Default Inflation, Return and Tax Assumptions from Official Sources | ✔ |
Override Default Inflation Rates | ✔ |
Override Default Investment Returns & Savings Rates | ✔ |
Override Indexation of Tax Allowances, Limits & Thresholds for Possible Future Policy Changes | ✔ |
Apply Marriage Allowance | ✔ |
Reinstate Lifetime Allowance & LTA Charge to Reflect Possible Future Policy Change | ✔ |
Specify Brought-forward Annual Allowances for Pension Investment | ✔ |
Default Tax Assumptions Based on UK / English Tax Rules (not Scottish income tax) | ✔ |
Calculate Projection | |
Calculate Deterministic Projection for Lifetime Income, Expenses, Assets & Debts | ✔ |
Calculate Lifetime Investment Contributions & Withdrawals Based on Selected Strategy | ✔ |
Calculate Lifetime Taxes (Individuals & Partners) | ✔ |
Calculate Inheritance Between Partners | ✔ |
Calculate Legacy | ✔ |
Tax Calculations | |
Income Tax | |
Earnings & Property | ✔ |
Savings & Dividends | ✔ |
Pension Tax Relief, Allowances & Charges | ✔ |
High Income Child Benefit Charge | ✔ |
Residential Finance Costs Relief | ✔ |
National Insurance | |
Employment Class 1A | ✔ |
Self-employment Classes 2, 4 | ✔ |
Capital Gains Tax | |
Investments | ✔ |
Residential Property (with Private Residence Relief) | ✔ |
Chattels | ✔ |
Business Asset Disposal (BAD) Relief | ✔ |
Stamp Duty (SDLT) | |
English / N Irish SDLT on Downsized Home (not Scottish LBTT / Welsh LTT) | ✔ |
Inheritance & Estate Tax | |
Estate Value Calculation | ✔ |
Spouse/Civil Partner Exemption (1st death) | ✔ |
Agricultural/Business Property Relief (APR/BPR) (2nd death) | ✔ |
Transferable NRB and Residence NRB (RNRB) (2nd death) | ✔ |
RNRB Downsizing Addition (2nd death) | ✔ |
Successive Charges Relief (2nd death) | ✔ |
Annual Gift Exemption & Potentially Exempt Transfers (PETs) | ✔ |
Estate Tax (Income & Capital Gains) | ✔ |
Review & Analyse Results | |
Charts (Desktop) | |
Summary Lifetime Expense Funding Projection | ✔ |
Detailed Expense Funding Projection | ✔ |
Assets & Debts (Lifetime view in Basic) | ✔ |
Income, Expense & Taxes | ✔ |
Contribution & Withdrawals | ✔ |
All Cashflows | ✔ |
Charts (Mobile) | |
Summary Lifetime Expense Funding Projection | ✔ |
Assets & Debts (Lifetime view) | ✔ |
Metrics & Analysis (Desktop) | |
Overall Plan Value including Shortfall & Legacy (Lifetime view in Basic) | ✔ |
Overall Income & Expense Metrics | ✔ |
Key Question Feedback | ✔ |
Suggested Next Steps to Investigate Shortfalls | ✔ |
Detailed Year-by-Year Chart Data Table | ✔ |
Summary of Plan Inputs | ✔ |
Metrics & Analysis (Mobile) | |
Lifetime Shortfall Feedback | ✔ |
Support | |
Help Centre | ✔ |
Planning Guide | ✔ |
Demo Plans | ✔ |
Email Technical Support | ✔ |