Plain Lab · planner
Retirement and Pension Planner
Twenty day-book pages ruled Date, Scheme or fund, Contribution, Balance, twenty-four finance pages, three goal pages and twenty for notes.
Specification
- Trim
- 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
- Pages
- 80
- Leaves
- 40
- Sheets
- 20
- Signatures
- 4 × 20pp
- Spine
- 4.58 mm
- Paper
- white
- Ruling
- lined
- Ruling pitch
- 7.14 mm · 20.25 pt · 9/32 in
- Rows per page
- 24
A pension statement arrives once a year and gets filed somewhere it will not be found again. The day-book pages here give contributions a row of their own: date, scheme or fund, amount paid in, balance as reported. Twenty pages of it, so next year's statement has something to be checked against rather than trusted on its own.
Twenty-four finance pages carry the arithmetic that is actually yours to do: what you put in this year against last year, across however many schemes you are paying into. There is no projected balance printed anywhere in this book, no assumed rate of growth, and no fund named or recommended. Those figures belong with a qualified adviser, not with a notebook, and the page is left blank rather than guessed at.
Three goal pages hold what retirement is actually meant to fund, in your own words rather than a percentage. Twenty lined pages at 7.14 mm pitch follow for whatever the columns and the goals leave out: a statement that arrived wrong, a scheme that changed its terms, a question to raise at next year's review. The book totals nothing on your behalf.
What is inside
- Daybook
- 20pp
- Contributions given a row of their own: date, scheme, amount, balance.
- Finance
- 24pp
- This year against last year, across however many schemes, arithmetic only.
- Goals
- 3pp
- What retirement is meant to fund, in your own words.
- Notes
- 20pp
- Whatever a column or a goal does not cover.
The film
Page by page
A vertical film from our own bench — this page contacts nobody's server to play it, and downloads nothing until you press play.
Real pages
Made at the Hibrkraft bindery, Bogor · about the maker
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Questions
What are the four day-book columns?
Date, Scheme or fund, Contribution, Balance.
How big is it?
A5, 148 x 210 mm, 80 pages, 4.58 mm across the spine.
Does it tell me how much I will have at retirement?
No. It gives no financial advice, assumes no rate of return, and names no product. It is a place to record what you put in and check it against your own target.
Is it dated?
No. Start it the day you next check a statement.
What ruling are the notes pages?
Lined, 7.14 mm pitch (9/32 inch), twenty-four lines to the page.
At what time soever thou wilt, it is in thy power to retire into thyself, and to be at rest, and free from all businesses.
