The retirement number almost everyone calculates incorrectly
Most retirement calculators assume you will withdraw the same amount every year for thirty years. You will not — and the difference is not small.
Nandini Rao · 20 September 2026
Private wealth · Financial planning · Education
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Wealth management
Most financial difficulty is not caused by a poor investment. It is caused by decisions taken in isolation — a policy bought here, a property there, a tax question deferred, a succession conversation avoided. Wealth management is the practice of bringing those decisions into a single view, so each one is made with the others in mind.
We work with families, professionals and business owners whose finances have outgrown a product-by-product approach: where the question is no longer which fund, but how the whole structure should fit together over the next twenty years.
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OpenRetirement
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OpenRetirement
Financial independence: the number, the date, and the progress.
OpenLoans & debt
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OpenGoal planning
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OpenTax & salary
Tax on salary income, band by band.
OpenOur process
A conversation about what the money is for, what you already hold, and what you are worried about.
We map the balance sheet, cash flow, protection and tax position, and model the goals against them.
A written plan with the assumptions stated, the trade-offs explained, and the sequence of actions set out.
We execute what you approve, in the order that matters most, and document every decision.
Positions, assumptions and goals are revisited on a set schedule, and whenever your circumstances change.
Insights
Most retirement calculators assume you will withdraw the same amount every year for thirty years. You will not — and the difference is not small.
Nandini Rao · 20 September 2026
Two retirees earn exactly the same average return over twenty years. One runs out of money. The difference is the order in which the returns arrived.
Arjun Kapoor · 13 September 2026
Raising a monthly investment in line with your income is the least glamorous lever in personal finance and, for most salaried investors, comfortably the most powerful.
Arjun Kapoor · 5 September 2026
Why it matters
Illustrative figures from the calculators on this site. Assumptions are shown on each tool.
In their words
“The first meeting was the first time anyone had asked what the money was actually for before recommending anything. We left with a written plan we understood, including the parts we disagreed with.”
“They told us plainly that two of our goals were competing for the same money and that one would have to move. Nobody had said that in eight years of advice.”
“What I valued most was being shown the assumptions. Every projection came with the inflation rate and the return it used, so I could argue with them — and I did.”
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