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Most Calculators Don't Cover.

Short, practical notes on the planning gaps we built SyncWealth's tools to close — written for MFDs and financial planners, not for clients.

Risk Tolerance vs Risk Capacity: Why Measuring Only One Fails Clients

A risk questionnaire tells you how a client feels about risk. It says nothing about whether their finances can actually absorb a loss. When the two disagree, that's the conversation that prevents a panic sell — or an unrecoverable shortfall.

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Sequence-of-Returns Risk: Same Average Return, Different Retirement

Two clients retire with identical corpus, identical withdrawal rate, and the same average return over 25 years — and one runs out of money a decade early. The order the returns arrive in is the reason, and it's rarely part of the standard SWP conversation.

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The Investor Behavior Gap: What Clients Actually Earned vs What the Fund Delivered

A fund's published CAGR and a client's actual XIRR are rarely the same number — timing of entries and exits sees to that. Showing the gap constructively, without turning it into a scorecard, is what separates a coaching conversation from an awkward one.

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