(LIVE SUPPORT SESSIONS) Product Walkthrough and Q & A - REGISTER HERE!
New to Snap Projections? Longer-term user but need a refresher?
Join us for Live Product Walkthroughs including the opportunity to ask your own questions. Get an overview of creating a projection, a review of new features, and have your questions answered by one of our resident Customer Success Specialists. These sessions are more informal than our regular CS Webinars, with less prepared content and more time for questions. This is a new format that we’re trying where you can register for a session and join at any time to ask questions or listen to answers addressing other users’ questions.
These sessions will highlight the basics of the software and provide training on the fundamentals. They will likely go over topics that advanced Snap Projections users are already familiar with.
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Upcoming Product Walkthrough Sessions - Registrations
Join us for our product walkthrough where we'll guide you through the process, step-by-step in Snap. We'll show you how to create an effective Financial Plan, review the projections generated, and answer any questions you may have.
Wednesday, December 6th, 2023, 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm ET - Register here, &
Wednesday, December 20th, 2023, 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm ET - Register here
Topic: Creating a plan in Snap for a couple nearing retirement
- In this webinar, we will create a basic plan in Snap for a couple who is nearing retirement and review the following questions that they asked regarding their retirement:
- 'How long will my money last? and Am I going to be okay?'
- 'How much can I spend so I won't run out of money?'
- 'How much will be left for my children?'
Selected Recorded Sessions
Just click the desired session link below and enter your name and email address to watch the session immediately.
A new way to enter and highlight spending goals in Snap Projections
Please click here to view the recorded session, recorded on July 19, 2023. In this session, we reviewed a sample projection and highlighted:
- Base Expenses
- Additional Expenses
- The Cash Outflows chart
- Entering specific withdrawals on the Planning page to cover expenses
Please click here to view the recorded session, recorded on August 2, 2023.
- We covered the same topics as above (except for point 4) but also discussed entering tax-deductible expenses.
Tips and Tricks
Please click here to view the recorded session, recorded on March 15, 2023. In this session, we reviewed a sample projection and highlighted:
- Scenario Setup input flow
- Moving/Copying assets to the spouse
- RRSP and TFSA Contribution room input and RRSP -> RRIF Conversion age settings
- Tips for the Planning page (mouse hover, Copying Scenarios, Scenario Notes, keyboard shortcuts)
- Running a Sustainable Scenario, starting at any age
- Opening detailed tables on the Planning page
- Charts and making them full screen, selecting and deselecting
- Create their final report.
A case study on a couple nearing retirement
Please click here to view the recorded session, recorded on February 15th, 2023.In this session, we'll review go over a case study on a couple who is earning retirement and we'll review:-
- How to enter joint assets, spousal RRSP plan.
- Understand Cash Flow Management in their plan.
- Answer their retirement questions like - how long will their money last? and Can they retire early?
- Create their final report.
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Useful features you might have missed in Snap
Please click here to view the recorded session, recorded on February 1st, 2023.
In this session, we reviewed some helpful features in Snap that you might have missed.
This session covered:
- Using the charts and reports efficiently
- Additional tables that you can see on the Planning pages
- Tips to enter insurance data quickly
- Mouse hover to see the Contribution and Withdrawal limits of Registered Assets
- How to copy, paste, rename and switch scenarios in a plan.
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Back to basics
Please click here to view the recorded session, recorded on January 18, 2023.
It’s the start of the new year, and we want to help you be ready to go with Snap Projections. In this session, we take it slow and provide a walkthrough of Snap for new users and those who would like a quick refresher on Snap's basics. We also highlight improvements that were made in 2022.
This session covered:
- Rebasing your projections to start in the year 2023.
- A review of the Scenario Setup pages and the Planning pages.
- How to run a Sustainable Scenario using the Recommendations feature.
- How to create customized reports to present to your clients.
- And along the way, we'll be addressing your questions.
- Why is the After-Tax Spending $0 for your plan?
- Why do you see Automatic Contributions or Withdrawals in the Capital Asset?
- Why do you see balances in the Net Cash Flow and Cash Balance Column?
- Why do you have pink highlights on the planning page? What does it mean?
- How much more do I need to save today in order to meet my retirement goals?
- If I don't start saving more, at what age can I afford to retire?
- How much would I need to reduce my annual spending by when I retire if I don't want to save more or work longer?
- How much would I need to save from the sale of my home to ensure my retirement goals are fully funded?
- How does the Cash Flow work in Snap?
- What are Contribution/Withdrawal overrides and when should I use them?
- If my clients run into a shortfall, how much do they need to save to meet their retirement spending goals?
- How can I determine the maximum level of spending for my clients?
- Why might there be shortfalls displayed in a Sustainable Scenario?
- How can I customize my reports?
- How can I enter a joint insurance policy and specify beneficiaries?
- With all the recent development changes, you may not be aware of the options available to you to build and optimize your plans.
- In this session, we provided an overview of the various features within Snap Projections.
- In this session, we reviewed a financial plan for a couple.
- We discussed the basics of the projection including cash flow management and after-tax spending.
- We ran a Sustainable Scenario, sold a home and purchased a new one, and reviewed the charts and reports.
- In this session, we reviewed a financial plan for an individual who is nearing retirement.
- We discussed how to use Snap to model commuting a pension.
- We also reviewed the new Stress Testing features available in Snap including an improved version of Historical Scenarios and the all-new Randomized Scenarios.
- In this session, we reviewed a financial plan for a couple in their fifties with children.
- Click the following link to view their client questionnaire if you would like to practice creating their plan on your own. Jackson-and-Samantha-Peters-Questionnaire.pdf
- They are saving for retirement and also for their children's education.
- We provided a few alternate scenarios and then reviewed the charts and the report.
- In this session, we reviewed a financial plan for a couple with a corporation. Sam and Sherri are 40 years old and plan to retire at age 65.
- We looked at their projections first without using the corporate module.
- We added the corporate details under Scenario Setup and discussed the various fields and default settings.
- On the Corporate Planning page, we entered Active Business Income, Salaries, Non-Eligible, Eligible, and Capital Dividends.
- We discussed Corporate Insurance, Real Assets, and showed how the corporate money flowed into the personal projections.
- In this session, we reviewed a financial plan for a retired couple, Brian and Gail, aged 70 and 72.
- Defined Benefit Pension Plans (DBPPs) and survivor benefits for pensions and government benefits.
- How to change the withdrawal logic to empty the registered accounts first?
- What about Spousal RRSPs in Snap?
- How are Gail's projections impacted if Brian passes away 15 years before she does? We looked at the charts as well.
- We answered a few questions related to insurance joint policies.
- In this session, we created a new financial plan for Jackson Peters, age 50, who was wondering if he was saving enough for retirement. Would he be able to spend the same amount in retirement as he is spending now on his lifestyle?
- We created a few alternate scenarios as well, including saving more to the RRSP once his mortgage was paid off, retiring a few years later, and starting his Government Benefits at a later age.
- We discussed the order of automatic contributions and withdrawals and cash flow management in general.
- We added a spouse to the projections and discussed a spousal survival scenario.
- Here is the client questionnaire for Jackson which we used to create the base plan. Case Study - Jackson Peters, age 50
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Common problems when creating a plan and their solutions
Click here to view the recorded session, recorded November 2, 2022.
A few things that we reviewed are:
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A Client Case Study: Using the Recommendations feature
Click here to view the recorded session, recorded on October 19, 2022.
This session’s case study focus is 50-year-old Elizabeth Warren. A recent divorcee and IT Specialist, Elizabeth needs to restart and re-establish a financial and retirement plan for herself. Her main goal? Ensuring she can still retire at age 65.
During our case study, we’re going to show you how simple and quick it is to set up a new client or prospect file in Snap Projections, and then we will be able to easily address Elizabeth’s questions. Like most Canadians, Elizabeth needs a financial plan, she just doesn’t know it yet. What she does know, is that she has goals and expectations for her retirement. Her financial questions today are:
We’re going to be addressing these key questions for Elizabeth and show you how to easily and quickly provide transparent recommendations.
If you would like to create the projections on your own for practice, here is the information: Elizabeth Warren Client Questionnaire.
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The top questions about Creating Projections, Part 1
Click here to view the recorded session, recorded on August 24, 2022.
What are the most common questions that we receive from our users?
In this session, you can learn from our answers to these questions. These include:
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The top questions about Creating Projections, Part 2
Click here to view the recorded session, recorded on October 5, 2022.
What are the most common questions that we receive from our users? In this second session dedicated to FAQs, we'll walk through the answers to these top questions. Attending the first session is not a requirement for this one. In this webinar, we will cover answers to:
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Overview of all the features in Snap Projections
Click here to view the recorded session, recorded on July 13, 2022
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Basic projections for a couple nearing retirement
Click here to view the recorded session, recorded on June 29, 2022
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Commuting a pension
Click Here to view the recorded session, recorded on June 15, 2022
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Using the Education module in Snap (RESPs)
Click Here to view the recorded session, recorded on June 1, 2022
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Using the Corporate Module in Snap
Click here to view the recorded session, recorded on May 18, 2022
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Sample Projections for a retired couple in their seventies
Click here to view the recorded session, recorded on May 4, 2022
Sample Projections for a single client, age 50
Watch the Live Product Walkthrough and Q & A session, recorded on April 20, 2022
UI Design Change Sessions
During the week of April 4, 2022, we held Q&A sessions to support you through the changes to the UI design of Snap Projections. We presented a quick overview of the top questions and answers related to the changes and then created a few sample plans to review basic functionality in Snap.