Retirement planning, with the German parts modelled
Plan how long your money could last in retirement.
Explore saving and withdrawals with inflation, German tax assumptions and a pension that starts later. Free, with no account required.
What it models that a calculator does not
- German tax, in the right order Teilfreistellung before the Sparerpauschbetrag, and your oldest shares sold first. A sale is taxed in the month it happens; the allowance and the Vorabpauschale settle once per plan year. Monte Carlo keeps no lot book and settles on the average basis, and says so beside its result. An estimate, not a broker's assessment.
- A pension that starts later Bridge the years before it arrives, then let the portfolio fund only what remains of your target income.
- Risk you can place yourself Anchor a crash to plan start or to retirement, set its depth and recovery, and see the same plan without it beside it. Or run a thousand Monte Carlo paths around your assumed return, with the spread and the depletion risk stated rather than implied.
- Real history, and your own holdings Replay an actual month-by-month index series in euro, or project per-asset positions with their own cost basis, savings plans and one-off buys and sells.
Worked through, with the assumptions visible
Three retirement questions this answers
Pension bridge
What changes when the pension starts later?
A fixed monthly income for thirty years, funded by the portfolio alone for the first 7 years and then split with the pension. Opens in the simulator with these numbers already in it.- Starting portfolio
- €900,000
- Income, in today's money
- €3,000 / month
- Pension, from year 8
- €1,500 / month
- Return and inflation
- 7 % · 2.5 %
Withdrawal rate
How does the four-percent rule change after German tax?
See the rule, its assumptions and the estimated spendable amount. Work through this →Bad timing
Could early market losses derail my retirement?
Move the same crash across one retirement to isolate timing risk. Work through this →Checking the numbers, and keeping a plan
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