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 an enormous community around us. We don’t advertise or push for referrals. We apply stringent tests to determine if someone is right for our advice service (after all, it’s a partnership). Because of that, your Rask Adviser will never be under pressure to sell you something. Furthermore, booking a call with our team does not guarantee an advice partnership with Rask Advice.

Finally, we’re simply not capable of servicing everyone who comes to us. 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 gets complicated but it’s important. So if we can’t help, we’ll politely refer you to another great advice team.

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

We’ll work with you during the screening process to determine if implementation is something you’ll need, and how we would help.

Our Financial Independence (FI) package does not include any implementation support. All other packages include it within the yearly advice fee (yes – you read that right: we include this cost in our fixed advice fees!)

For one year of service, many advice firms might charge you something like this:

  • Upfront advice/plan: $4,000 – $20,000
  • Ongoing service (starts at 30 days): $4,000 – $30,000
  • Implementation fee: $0 – $5,500
  • Insurance commissions: 0 – 66% of the annual premium, then 0 – 33% year each after that.

(You can do the math – ouch!)

Rask Advice fees for one year:

  • Fixed at $3,999 – $12,999 (then 50% after year 1)
  • Insurance commissions: we don’t intend to do much of this (see FAQ “who don’t you work with”)

Remember: our ongoing advice is optional and only charged after 12 months (if you want it).

We don’t lock you into any ongoing advice upfront, but of course we can do it.

Yes. Because our advice fees are fixed, we can manage your wealth in our preferred technology platform for the same fee as the strategic advice.

Please note: you still pay other fees and costs, like brokerage, Super fees, platform costs, etc. These are disclosed to you in your Statement of Advice.

We want that too! The thing is, we don’t expect anyone to commit to paying an “ongoing fee” within days of meeting your financial adviser.

Our packages are designed to be cost-effective over the long run.

By opting for ongoing advice before the end of the first year, 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 it provides our customers with a lot of confidence they can call us at a moment’s notice. Think of it like a safety net.

No. Please read our Financial Services Guide (FSG).

You’ll still pay for things like Super admin costs, insurance premiums, brokerage, investment platform fees, ETF fees, etc. – just like you would if you DIY your plan or go to another adviser.

It’s our advice fees that are fixed.

Note: All of our advice and modelling team members will research and try to recommend the lowest cost services, platforms and products for you – but we won’t choose the low cost option if it’s not a good offering for you. All fees and costs will be disclosed in your financial plan – including the costs that don’t go to us.