Free Investment/Wealth Tools - Is there a need?

[Advicement]

Hi everyone, 

 

We (https://advicement.co.za) are looking to build some free online tools to assist people in understanding their investments. For example: 

 

• Benefits of a tax-free savings accounts, how much will you save in tax after a certain number of years?
  
• How much will you have when you retire and how long will it last under various withdrawal assumptions? 
  
• Are you maximising your retirement contributions and how can they be more optimal?
  
• What is the impact of fees on your investment?
  

The idea is to create general tools which are easy-to-use and where you can change certain assumptions and see their impact. 

 

I was wondering if you would find such tools useful? Feel free to leave your opinion/criticism/ideas below. 

 

Cheers, 

 

Igor Rodionov, 

Advicement Investment Services

[LentilSoup]

Not sure how viable this would be but I would love a tool that can show what each retirement annuity's fees are depending on how much I save.

 

So essentially anything that shows fees is a great tool and makes it easier to talk to people because it's factual you can show them.

[Bandit]

I just want a decent watchlist where I can add my positions, categorise the instrumetnts and see pie charts with a breakdown of the stats:

 

40% local, 50% developed, 10% emerging

 

or

 

30% local equities

10% local property

10 % foreign property

50% foreign equity

 

... default categorisations that I can override (multiple categories per instrument).

 

It's actually not difficult to build if one has the time.

[Bandit]

OH! And like Bloomberg's offering multiple watchlists will be awesome so I can split my TFSA and ETF Portfolio. But what is missing is an auto watchlist that automatically combines the other watchlists to give me an overview of all my investments.