We calculate your retirement income goal as 60% of your final salary before you retire (given that you'll have fewer financial obligations in retirement). To get your final salary, we take your current salary and assume that it will grow at inflation + 1% each year until you retire (which we assume will be when you are 65).
Your portfolio choice can have a big impact on your final returns.
Investing for longer than 5 years? We recommend the High Equity portfolio.
The projected average and poor investment returns are based on historic market returns after inflation from 1900 to 2017. Historically over your savings period, one in four outcomes have been worse than the outcome shown under below average returns and three in four have been better. The projections therefore account for historical market fluctuations.
Assumption & disclaimers
- Fees are the only difference between the “Industry” and 10X projections.
- The fees used in the projections are inclusive of VAT. The investment referred to as “Industry” is assumed to charge total fees of 3% including VAT per annum. Morningstar’s Global Fund Investor Experience 2015 study shows that the average total expense ratio is 1.63% pa (which includes investment and performance fees), with the cost of advice and an administration platform adding an additional 1% to 1.5% pa. The investment with 10X is assumed to charge a fee according to the 10X Investment fee scale and that the client comes directly to 10X (i.e. no advisor fee). The maximum fee charged by 10X in these scales is 1.03% including VAT per annum.
- Your projected benefits are shown in real terms (today's money). This means we have shown what future values would be worth today, once we have stripped out inflation.
- The projected benefits are shown at age 65, unless you have changed the retirement age on the output page.
- Where applicable, the projected monthly income assumes that you purchase an inflation-linked guaranteed annuity at retirement with your projected investment value. This estimate assumes that you use your entire projected investment value to purchase an annuity at retirement. Our estimate is based on the recent price of an inflation-linked guaranteed annuity without a spouse. An inflation-linked guaranteed annuity will provide you with an income that grows annually with inflation and pays you an income for the remainder of your life.
- The projected average and poor investment returns are based on historic market returns after inflation from 1900 to 2017. Historically over your savings period, one in four outcomes have been worse than the outcome shown under poor returns and three in four have been better. The projections therefore account for historical market fluctuations.
- The projections above are based on the default investment strategy called the 10X default glide path, unless you changed the investment portfolio on the output page . The 10X default glide path automatically matches the investment portfolio’s asset allocation to your assumed retirement age. This ensures that when you are more than five years from retirement that you mainly own assets that are expected to deliver high returns - with expected higher volatility of returns - and that the portfolio will gradually be switched into less volatile assets - with expected lower returns - in the last five years before you retire, with the aim of preserving capital.
- The projections shown are based on information provided by you regarding your financial situation. 10X Investments does not in any way guarantee the projected benefits shown; we offer these projections merely to assist you in your financial planning. Although our projections take account of the historical returns earned in the South African and International markets, future market returns are uncertain. Past performance does not guarantee nor indicate future results.
- The calculations provided should not be construed as financial, legal or tax advice. In addition, such information should not be relied upon as the only source of information. This information is supplied from sources we believe to be reliable but we cannot guarantee its accuracy.
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