Financial Advise: Budget Management

This example shows how to improve a couple's Financial Score, which measures the percent of the time they don't have a cashflow deficit through the rest of their lives.

The couple wishes to improve their retirement situation by adjusting their living expenses by 10%, seek a 9% average return in their savings, secure a lower (5.7%) interest rate on their home mortgage, improve the Primary's income by 10%, and lower the retirement age of Primary to 60, and of Spouse to 50.

Select the Financial Advisor:



This invokes the Financial Advisor interface, which in this case shows the Joint tab strategies, preselected with the choices specified above:



Selecting the Primary and Spouse tabs, and the appropriate slidebars will allow you to specify the remaining financial strategies. Click Apply to see the effects of your choices graphically.