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Golden State Planner calculators

Planner-contextualized calculators: goals-first framing, milestones as defaults, and fee-ethics context built into every output. Planner-language outputs, fee-ethics context, and California milestone examples — purpose-built for the planner-shopping journey, not generic household finance.

Catalog

What you can run here

Planner-language outputs, fee-ethics context, and California milestone examples — purpose-built for the planner-shopping journey, not generic household finance.

Compound trajectory lab

Runs in-browser with disclosures. Catalog slug · compound-growth-calculator

Allocation drift check

Runs in-browser with disclosures. Catalog slug · portfolio-allocation-analyzer

Retirement runway model

Runs in-browser with disclosures. Catalog slug · retirement-projection-simulator

Recovery requirements

Runs in-browser with disclosures. Catalog slug · drawdown-recovery-calculator

Risk budgeting sketch

Runs in-browser with disclosures. Catalog slug · risk-reward-calculator

Options payoff explorer

Runs in-browser with disclosures. Catalog slug · options-profit-loss-calculator

Purchasing power & price paths

Runs in-browser with disclosures. Catalog slug · inflation-impact-calculator

Planner interview question builder

Planning-specific module (planner-interview-question-builder); detailed engines ship progressively on this roadmap.

California milestone timeline mapper

Planning-specific module (california-milestone-timeline-mapper); detailed engines ship progressively on this roadmap.

Post-meeting action item tracker

Planning-specific module (post-meeting-action-item-tracker); detailed engines ship progressively on this roadmap.

Interactive

Compound trajectory lab

Planner-language outputs, fee-ethics context, and California milestone examples — purpose-built for the planner-shopping journey, not generic household finance.

Future value

$1,185,264

Projected ending balance under the current compounding path.

Your contributions

$460,000

Starting capital plus every monthly contribution.

Investment growth

$725,264

The share created by compounding instead of deposits.

Output path

The line updates immediately as you change the assumptions.

Year 0 to Year 20

Year 0Year 10Year 20

Interactive

Allocation drift check

Planner-language outputs, fee-ethics context, and California milestone examples — purpose-built for the planner-shopping journey, not generic household finance.

Enter current and target weights. The model normalizes them to 100% and flags any sleeve that sits outside your drift band.

equities

fixed Income

alternatives

cash

Largest sleeve

55%

Anything too dominant deserves extra governance.

Effective sleeves

2.6

A lower value means the portfolio behaves like fewer real bets.

Concentration score

0.39

Herfindahl-style concentration across the current weights.

equities

Current 55% vs target 60%

Hold

Drift: -5%. Keep this sleeve within +/-5% to stay inside the current policy.

fixed Income

Current 25% vs target 20%

Hold

Drift: 5%. Keep this sleeve within +/-5% to stay inside the current policy.

alternatives

Current 10% vs target 10%

Hold

Drift: 0%. Keep this sleeve within +/-5% to stay inside the current policy.

cash

Current 10% vs target 10%

Hold

Drift: 0%. Keep this sleeve within +/-5% to stay inside the current policy.

Interactive

Retirement runway model

Planner-language outputs, fee-ethics context, and California milestone examples — purpose-built for the planner-shopping journey, not generic household finance.

Nominal balance

$3M

Raw dollars at the retirement start date.

Today's dollars

$2M

Inflation-adjusted view of the same future balance.

4% rule estimate

$130K

A quick annual draw estimate before tax planning.

Output path

The line updates immediately as you change the assumptions.

42 to 65

425365

Sustainable real income

$112K

Approximate annual spending in today's dollars if the portfolio must last through retirement.

Interactive

Recovery requirements

Planner-language outputs, fee-ethics context, and California milestone examples — purpose-built for the planner-shopping journey, not generic household finance.

Value after drawdown

$800,000

Capital left to compound from the lower base.

Required gain

25%

Gain needed just to get back to breakeven.

Years to recover

2.9 years

At the assumed annual return with no new deposits.

Recovery map

5% drawdown5.3%
10% drawdown11.1%
20% drawdown25%
30% drawdown42.9%
40% drawdown66.7%
50% drawdown100%

Interactive

Risk budgeting sketch

Planner-language outputs, fee-ethics context, and California milestone examples — purpose-built for the planner-shopping journey, not generic household finance.

Risk / reward

2.25x

Reward dollars divided by risk dollars per share.

Position size

312

Maximum shares before you exceed the trade risk budget.

Capital required

$31,200

Approximate gross exposure at the chosen entry.

Trade framing

Per-share risk

$8

Per-share reward

$18

Risk budget

$2,500

This framework assumes a single trade with one stop and one target. If your stop is likely to slip in fast markets, size down before you size up.

Interactive

Options payoff explorer

Planner-language outputs, fee-ethics context, and California milestone examples — purpose-built for the planner-shopping journey, not generic household finance.

Breakeven

$105

Expiration price where the payoff crosses zero.

Max gain

Unlimited

Capped when the structure has a natural ceiling.

Max loss

$500

Always review this before any trade sizing discussion.

Output path

The line updates immediately as you change the assumptions.

$60 to $140

$60$100$140

Interactive

Purchasing power & price paths

Planner-language outputs, fee-ethics context, and California milestone examples — purpose-built for the planner-shopping journey, not generic household finance.

Purchasing power

$55,368

Illustrative real value of idle nominal dollars after inflation— assumes zero nominal investment return.

Nominal future tag

$180,611

Rough sticker price for the same basket when inflation compounds at the rate you entered.

Nominal cumulative lift

80.6%

Percent increase from today’s dollars to the nominal future tag.

Output path

The line updates immediately as you change the assumptions.

Y0 to Y20

Y0Y10Y20

Horizon

20 years

The chart traces purchasing power if nominal dollars earn 0% while prices rise at your inflation assumption—pair with compound-growth and retirement tools when modeling returns.

Contact

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