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🤓 Xplan Hint: Customising Life-Stage Spending in Retirement Income
Did you know you can model "active" and "passive" retirement phases in Xplan’s Retirement Income solution by stepping down a client's target income at a specific future date? Why? Most clients spend more in the first decade of retirement (the "go-go" years) than they do in their 80s. Modeling a flat $50,000 p.a. for 30…
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6th May AMA: I’m Lana Graham, Xtools+ product manager, Ask Me Anything!
Hi everyone 👋 I’m Lana Graham, Xtools+ product manager. The way you use Xtools+ is continuously improving and, understandably, that can come with a stack of questions. This is especially true as we launched our Super & Pension Strategies Revisited update on 23 April 2026. This release is all about removing the ‘memory…
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Delivering a five star client experience with Xplan
Your Xplan site is the engine of a five-star client experience, but is chaos bubbling behind the scenes? This guide is your essential recipe for operational excellence. For Xplan administrators and practice managers, you are the executive chef of your firm’s technology. The client sees the beautifully prepared dish, but…
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🤓 Xplan Hint: Automated regular rollovers between super accounts
Did you know you can now set up automated regular rollovers between super accounts to maintain a specific target balance in Xtools+? Modelling regular transfers between super accounts used to be quite clunky, requiring you to enter dollar amounts for every single period of a projection. This new feature acts as an…
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🤓 Xplan Hint: Xtools+ Super & Pension Strategies revisited
Did you know we just released some awesome updates to Super & Pension modelling in Xtools+? It’s no secret that our Product Manager, Lana Graham, is obsessed with ensuring paraplanners have access to the best modelling tools in our industry. And one of the ways she does this is by staying close to those using the tools and…
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WealthSolver: the back end
In our previous article, Unlocking the full potential of WealthSolver, we explored how this module serves as the primary engine for product comparison and fee analysis. But as any seasoned Xplan user knows, an engine is only as effective as its calibration. While the "front end" allows you to run scenarios and compare…
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🤓 Xplan Hint: Easier Key Date Modelling
Did you know you can now add or change Key Dates directly from the Superannuation SOP Transactions and EOP Transactions Input screens without navigating away to projection settings? The workflow used to feel a bit disjointed if you realised halfway through entering data that you forgot to add a "Buy a Home" or "Retirement"…
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🤓 Xplan Hint: End of Period Transactions Screen
Did you know there is a brand new input screen in Xtools+ specifically for actions that happen at the very end of the financial year? We noticed a lot of workflow friction because things like personal deductible contribution top-ups or spouse splitting were buried in nested menus or only accessible from display screens.…
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Unlocking the full potential of WealthSolver
Who remembers when WealthSolver was ‘just’ SuperSolver? SuperSolver was built to solve a very specific problem: the complexity of comparing Australian superannuation funds. At the time, industry funds and retail funds had vastly different fee structures, and comparing "apples-to-apples" was a nightmare for advisers.…