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Financial planning questionnaire

Everything a first financial plan is built from, gathered in one go: income, savings and investments, insurance and estate documents, and what the client wants the plan to do.

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Financial planning data

Everything a first plan is built from: income, savings, protection and goals.

Income

  • Your two most recent pay stubs

    Document upload

  • Your last two years of tax returns

    Document upload

    Every page, including the schedules.

Savings and investments

  • Retirement account statements

    Document upload

    401(k), 403(b), IRA or Roth IRA — the latest statement for each.

  • Brokerage account statements

    Document upload

  • Bank and savings account statements

    Document upload

  • Your Social Security statement

    Document upload

    You can download it from ssa.gov/myaccount.

Protection and estate

  • Life, disability and long-term care insurance policies

    Document upload

  • Your will and any powers of attorney

    Document upload

  • Any trust documents

    Document upload

  • Your employer’s benefits summary

    Document upload

Goals

  • When would you like to be able to retire?

    Number

    An age is fine.

  • What would you most like this plan to help with?

    A few sentences

Who uses it

When to send it

Planners send this after a client signs on and before the plan is drafted. Most of it is documents rather than questions, because statements and policies answer more precisely than anybody’s memory of them.

It ends with the two questions that shape the plan: when the client would like to be able to retire, and what they most want the plan to help with.

Tips

Getting it back complete

  • Ask for documents rather than figures wherever you can. A pay stub is more accurate than “about ninety a year”.
  • Group the request the way the client keeps their papers: work, accounts, insurance, estate. It reads as less work.
  • Ask for the Social Security statement from ssa.gov. It takes a client five minutes and gives you their earnings record.
  • Leave the goals open-ended. What a client writes in their own words is often the most useful line on the page.
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