The Long Weekend Plan

Video tutorial series

Learn the tools in short videos.

Fifteen short videos on SpendLens, the planner and PensionLens.

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Video 1

Intro

The series and the web tools that go with the book.

Video 2

SpendLens

What SpendLens shows: spending by category and month.

Video 3

Uploading

Loading statements from several accounts, automatic categories and rules.

Video 4

Reviewing

Searching, filtering and recategorising transactions.

Video 5

Auto-categorise

Finishing the uncategorised transactions and saving your work.

Video 6

Intro to PlanLens

How the retirement planner is structured.

Video 7

The Charts

The six charts and the transfers table.

Video 8

Finances Tab

Entering your current situation.

Video 9

Assumptions Tab

The rates behind the projections.

Video 10

Planning Tab

Year-by-year contributions, sales, loans and the PDF report.

Video 11

PensionLens

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Where you sit on the Age Pension curve, and the Sweet Spot.

Video 12

Inputs

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The input panel, and the Age Pension under both tests.

Video 13

The Sweet Spot curve

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The peak, the dip, the table and the annuity what-if.

Video 14

Work headroom and tax

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How much you can earn before your pension or tax changes.

Video 15

Accumulation accounts and the younger spouse strategy

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Keeping a younger partner's super in accumulation.