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Pension planning – Sound planning is half the future

Plan your retirement early and worry-free with our pension planning services. We analyze your pension situation, optimize your lump-sum or annuity payments from a tax standpoint, and develop a sustainable strategy that secures your standard of living in retirement. This is how we create financial clarity and flexibility as well as the foundation for a worry-free retirement.

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What is pension planning?

Pension planning involves a comprehensive analysis and strategy development for the financial transition from working life to retirement. It takes into account income from pension schemes, savings, and investments, as well as expenses and taxes, to create a sustainable and secure plan for retirement. The aim is to ensure financial independence and to maintain your standard of living in retirement.

How to proceed in pension planning

1

Analysis of the current situation

  • Analyzing pension savings (1st pillar, 2nd pillar, pillars 3a and 3b) and other financial assets

  • Examining debt, expenses, and expected income

2

Creation of scenarios

  • Simulating various retirement timelines, including early retirement

  • Analyzing the impact of these scenarios on pension benefits, taxes, and liquidity

3

Development of a strategy

  • Making recommendations for the best-possible use of pension funds

  • Optimizing taxes and ensuring long-term liquidity

4

Support in implementation

  • Providing guidance in decisions related to lump-sum or annuity payments and their respective consequences

Using smzh Pension Planning

1. Clarity and security
You know precisely how much money is at your disposal in retirement and how to best use it.
2. Individual optimization
Tailor-made strategies help you tap tax savings and minimize financial risks.
3. Long-term stability
Making sure that your financial means are sufficient even if you opt for early retirement.
4. Sustainable life planning
Incorporating your goals such as travel or real-estate projects into a stable financial strategy.

Videos on "Pension planning"

Retirement provision: Voluntary saving is essential - mobile

Retirement provision: Voluntary saving is essential

Learn why voluntary saving for retirement is essential and how pillar 3a offers a tax-advantaged option for this purpose. In addition, we explain practical steps for analyzing your financial situation and setting savings goals, as well as how to consider key aspects of diversification and risk assessment.

(in German)

Lieber Alf, wie hast du deine Altersvorsorge geregelt? - mobile

Dear Alf, what are you doing in terms of retirement provision?

In this video, Alf speaks openly and honestly (and perhaps a little tongue-in-cheek) about his retirement provision. It's worth watching!

(in German)

Why should everyone plan for retirement?

Early planning minimizes risks

From 50 to 55 years of age, targeted planning leaves enough time to prevent financial tight spots.

Maintaining one's standard of living

A well-thought-out strategy ensures that your financial means are sufficient to maintain your desired standard of living in retirement.

Flexibility for early retirement

Our planning takes into consideration options for early retirement and their financial consequences.

Using tax advantages

Early planning helps find tax-optimized solutions, for instance through staggered lump-sum payments.

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smzh for you

Your benefits in planning your pension with smzh:

  • Personalized stocktaking: Analyze your financial and professional situation
  • Proactive planning: Determine the best possible time for retirement
  • Optimizing retirement benefits: Examine and improve benefits from old-age and survivors' insurance (AHV), pension fund, and 3rd pillar
  • Tax & withdrawal strategy: Develop a tax-efficient pension withdrawal strategy
  • Support up to as well as beyond retirement: Support in terms of planning and implementation

We handle questions such as those shown on the right on a daily basis. You don't have to deal with them all by yourself – our 360° Check-Up is free of charge and non-binding.

Early planning – ideally starting at 50-55 years of age – gives you enough time to avoid financial tight spots later on, close provision gaps, and make the best use of tax advantages. In brief, it helps you lay the foundation for a worry-free retirement.

We analyze your entire financial situation: pension assets from the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd pillar, savings, investments, expenses, debts, and taxes. Based on this analysis, we develop a sustainable strategy to help you maintain your standard of living.

Both options offer advantages and disadvantages – depending on your situation, your goals, and the tax-related impact. We show you how the two options differ and help you take the best decision given your circumstances.

Our pension planning also involves scenarios for early retirement. We calculate how retiring early would impact your pension benefits, your liquidity, and your tax burden. In other words, we determine whether early retirement is a viable option for you.

You get financial clarity, a tailor-made strategy to secure your standard of living, a tax optimization strategy, and the certainty of being well prepared for various scenarios ahead. We accompany you from analysis all the way to implementation.