Retirement Planning

Retirement financial planning, for maximum confidence.

Designed for individuals and couples aged 50+ planning for on-time and confident retirement. Our team will help you plan, transition and thrive in the rapid accumulation phase (50-65), and confidently transition into a highly tax-effective and secure retirement.

Age range

50+

Rask's first year advice fee*

$9,999

Ideal for

Retirees

How it works

Our process

Why choose this package?

The Confident Retirement package is designed for individuals and couples aged 50 and over, who are planning for on-time retirement. It includes strategies such as Transition to Retirement (TTR), pension and drawdown optimisation, superannuation contributions (including downsizer options), re-contribution strategies for tax and estate planning, pension and Centrelink eligibility structuring, transitioning to pension phase for tax-free income, investment strategy shifts and more.

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Focus areas

Inclusions

Typical focus areas include:

  • Transition to Retirement (TTR) strategy
  • Pension and drawdown optimisation
  • Super contributions (downsizer, concessional/non-concessional)
  • Re-contribution strategies (tax and estate planning)
  • Pension & Centrelink eligibility and structuring
  • Transitioning from accumulation to pension phase to access tax-free income
  • Downsizer contributions to boost super
  • Recontribution strategies
  • Investment strategy shift (growth to income focus)
  • Estate planning and wealth transfer strategies
  • Total and Permanent Insurance payout advice?
  • Risk insurance review
  • Investment strategy for existing SMSFs
  • Areas we typically do not cover:
    • Aged care
    • No SMSF establishments, unless combined assets are over $1m and there are obvious benefits

You will receive:

  • A comprehensive financial plan (“SOA”) covering years of wealth planning
  • Detailed steps to confidently plan for, and thrive in, retirement
  • Quarterly coaching for the first year
  • Support to implement the financial plan we deliver
  • Review and validation across multiple asset types

Advice team

The Rask Advice team is growing rapidly to meet demand from Australians seeking expert and aligned financial advice services, whether in accumulation or retirement. Already, the Rask Advice team has over 40 years of combined financial services experience, with many more years if you include the broader Rask Group, our Investment Committee and Consultants. Get to know our team.

FAQs

Our advice fees cover… well, our advice.

Similar to how an accountant doesn’t pay your tax bill, we do not pay for all of your financial life. But we do try to minimise these at every turn.

In addition to fees charged by us, typically a customer of Rask Advice typically encounters a range of costs charged by other parties:

  1. Brokerage fees (e.g. for buying or selling investments). We work only with secure and regulated firms, and have a bias towards HIN-based brokers. But every customer has their own preferences. None of these fees go to us.
  2. Software fees & costs (e.g. budgeting software, tax or portfolio reporting software). We would only recommend a piece of software if it helped you achieve your goals sooner, easier or if you wanted to explicitly use something. None of these fees go to us. We have a bias to software that is tailored to financial independence. 
  3. Expert fees & costs (e.g. lawyers, accountants, estate planners, mortgage brokers, real estate agents, etc.). While these fees may be ‘noted’ in your Statement of Advice, these are common in our strategies – especially for business owners, families wanting to leave a legacy or debt recyclers. For example, let’s say that, together, we decide to sell an investment property and boost your Super for passive income. While selling that property has nothing to do with us directly, it obviously might impact your costs as part of the broader financial plan. Most of the time, none of these fees go to us – but The Rask Group does have a partnership with Alcove, a leading mortgage broker. In the unlikely event of a conflict, we may choose not to work with you, to protect our ethical integrity. And finally, any partnership, would be disclosed to you clearly, and upfront. 
  4. Financial “product” (e.g. funds, ETFs, Super, insurance, etc.) fees and costs. These are the fees you will be paying regardless of whether you got financial advice or not. None of these fees go to us. Often, they are taken out automatically by the provider. These fees will be disclosed to you. We have a bias to low-cost providers, but not at the expense of better returns or service.

Billionaire Charlie Munger was known to say, “show me the incentive and I’ll show you the outcome.”

Our incentive is to provide the best advice we can, so you come back to us in the future. And the only fee we want to receive is the advice fee, which you’re told in advance. 

At Rask, we’re blessed to have a huge community around us. We don’t advertise or push for referrals. Because of that, your Rask Adviser will never be under pressure to sell you something. 

The downside is, we’re simply not capable of servicing everyone who comes to us. 

Not only that, other advisers may be better at certain things, including our advice partners

Situations we won’t often deal with:

  1. People needing insurance only advice – we typically outsource this type of customer to someone who can better serve your needs. Why? Insurance is complicated but important. Our partners are great at this. Note: you can ask to have this “scoped” out. Meaning, if we say “sorry, but we can’t help you”, you can say “I would like scope out / remove X, Y & Z from my financial plan.”
  2. People who don’t want to roll up their sleeves – our financial advice system and entire process is built on the premise that most Raskals don’t want to be reliant on a financial adviser for everything. For example, if you want someone to “just do it all for me”, we’re probably not the adviser for you. Why? That type of financial advice is very costly, doesn’t align with Rask’s value of financially empowering the country, and often requires us to have an ‘adviser-only’ piece of software (e.g. a ‘wrap’ or ‘platform’), so the advisers can simplify their admin and keep your costs down. If you’re the type of person who is happy to work with our advice and support team during the initial three-month sprint phase, follow the budget / passive income stream we work with you to create, want to understand the automations we hook up with you, and check in with your portfolio every now and then, with our support, we are your adviser. To confirm: we help you set things up, but we want your buy in.
  3. Rask Invest advice – our sister company, The Rask Group, has an investment platform called “Rask Invest”. It’s a low-cost, hyper-transparent and professional service help SMSF investors, individuals and families invest for the future. Due to our strict ethical rules at Rask Advice Pty Ltd, and our own policy, we try to avoid recommending our own investment service. If you want to invest with Rask Invest, you will likely have to request it (or already have it in your strategy). 

Implementation refers to an adviser, or their team, “setting you up and doing it for you.” 

Our team is designed to offer advice, rather than call the bank or your broker to help fill out forms. If an adviser does this, it can end up costing you a lot more money than if you put aside 30 minutes a fortnight for three months to follow the plan we create with you. Think of all those moments we’ll have to ask, “just confirming, was the name of your first pet, Garfield?” or “once more, where did you go to primary school?”

Our advice is honest, educational and empowering, plus our team is available for questions.

That said, we plan to offer a fixed number of hours of “implementation support”, per package, so our team can be on standby to help with any tricky questions or provide phone, video or email support in the first three months after your relationship starts with us.

We’ll work with you during the screening process to determine if this is something you’ll need, and how we can help. Of course, you can also call or email us any time you need a hand! 

We don’t lock you into any ongoing advice upfront. By this we mean the stuff you ‘get’ after the first 12 months.

Within the first 12 months, you will have the opportunity to join your adviser and provide a 60-minute update every 3 months (e.g. around 3, 6 and 9 months). We’ll also check in before the first year is up – but by then we hope you’re off and racing! 

In addition, you and your entire family will be given a free membership to Rask Core (the DIY investment service offered by The Rask Group), invites to events, Rask community access and admission to all Rask courses and webinars. 

If you want to stay with us as a personal financial advice customer after the first year, you may be given the option of continuing with our service for one-third of the upfront advice cost. 

Why one-third? 

We estimate our financial advice customers will, on average, want a full check-in and financial plan updated every three years. By opting for ongoing advice, you can effectively lock in continuous access to your advice team and the price you paid. 

Note: we will not sell you on this and we also reserve the right to cancel the agreement. For you, it’s an optional thing and, we hope, will rarely be activated because our advice provides a plan for many years to come. Think of it like a safety net.

And keep in mind, we’ll still be here if you need us in years 2, 3… or 10!