Proj 31 – AIA Finance Plan Platform

Financial Needs Calculator

Our financial needs calculator only requires basic information about a client, and outputs graphs and charts that clearly showcase how the client is doing relative to their financial goals, and how proposed plans will help them take that extra step.

Introducing Proj 31 – AIA Finance Plan Platform

The Financial Needs Calculator is a web-based financial planning tool developed with AIA Financial Advisers Private Limited to help advisors move beyond static spreadsheets and fragmented calculators. Built for the Singapore context, the platform brings together retirement, investment, and insurance planning into one structured workflow, allowing advisors to compare scenarios more easily, communicate insights more clearly, and deliver more consistent, data-driven recommendations to clients.

Team members

Lim Cai Ying (ISTD), Du Bowei (ISTD), Khairul Shabir Bin Khalid (DAI), Lim Jun Jie, Sean (ESD), Kong Le'ann Norah (ESD), Tirkey Shania Sarah (ISTD), Samuel Roshan (ISTD)

Instructors:

  • Du Yihan

Writing Instructors:

  • Belinda Seet

Financial Adviser - Client Interaction Journey

Today, much of the typical advisory workflow still depends on Excel workbooks, Google Sheets, product calculators, CPF calculators, and manually assembled PDF summaries. This makes planning labor-intensive and increases the risk of fragile logic, recalculation errors, and advisor-to-advisor inconsistency.

Hence, we identified these gaps:

The challenge becomes even more pronounced in Singapore, where planning often needs to account for CPF mechanics, CPF LIFE, insurance coverage, and investment portfolios in a locally relevant way. Some global tools are strong in visualization, but they may still fall short on CPF-specific logic or require workarounds for more complex Singapore-based cases. That gap is what we are trying to close with this calculator.

Problem Statement

How might we equip financial advisors with a shared, data-driven platform that delivers precise forecasts and decision-ready visuals to deliver high-quality advice that motivates clients to act?

We kept this in mind throughout our solution development, ensuring that our requirements will be met.

Our Focus on 3 Pillars:

Retirement Planning
The retirement pillar helps users understand whether their current financial trajectory is enough to support their desired retirement lifestyle. It begins with a financial snapshot and CPF inputs, then translates those into a CPF-only reality check, showing how projected CPF LIFE payouts compare against target retirement spending. From there, users can design their ideal retirement, optimize their portfolio mix, and move toward a clearer, more actionable retirement strategy
Investment Management
The investment pillar helps users connect the life they want with the portfolio they need. Starting from either a lifestyle-driven or target-driven approach, the platform estimates future retirement spending, calculates the total assets required, and breaks that goal down into investment categories such as growth assets, dividends, annuities, and cash. Users can then track their current holdings, test different assumptions, and see how changes in contributions, growth rates, and retirement age affect their long-term outcomes
Insurance Planning
The insurance pillar helps users assess whether their current coverage is sufficient for their needs and responsibilities. After capturing a quick personal and lifestyle snapshot, the platform compares existing coverage against required protection targets across categories such as death, critical illness, disability income, and multi-claim coverage. It then supports advisors in building recommendations, adding policies, documenting rationale, and producing a more structured insurance action plan for the client

Key Features of Our Solution

Shortfall & Gap Analysis

A core feature of the platform is its ability to surface financial gaps clearly and early. In retirement and investment planning, this means identifying whether projected income and assets are enough to support the user’s target lifestyle. In insurance planning, it means comparing current protection against recommended coverage levels to reveal where the client is underinsured. By making shortfalls visible, the platform gives advisors and clients a more concrete basis for discussion and action.

Asset Projection

The platform does more than show current numbers — it projects how assets, income streams, and allocations evolve over time. Users can see how different mixes of investments, annuities, dividends, cash reserves, and policy payouts contribute to future retirement income. This makes the planning process more tangible by helping users understand not just what they have today, but how far those assets can realistically take them.

Simple & Detailed Mode Toggle

Not every client wants the same level of complexity. To support different preferences, the platform includes both simplified and detailed planning modes. This allows users to start with a more intuitive, high-level view or dive deeper into the mechanics of their portfolio and projections when needed. The result is a more flexible experience that can better match both advisor workflows and client comfort levels during financial conversations.

Action Plan & Take Home Report

Each pillar concludes with an action-oriented summary that turns analysis into practical follow-through. The platform consolidates portfolio choices, financial goals, coverage decisions, and recommended actions into a final review page, helping users understand what to do next. It also supports downloadable PDF outputs, allowing advisors to provide clients with a structured take-home report that captures the discussion and serves as a reference after the meeting.

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Acknowledgements

Project team 31 would like to thank our Capstone instructors: Dr Yihan Du & Belinda Seet for their valuable advice in regards to both our projects development and the project deliverables creation, which were pivotal to the team’s success. We would also like to thank the SUTD Capstone Office for their support.

The team would like to thank our Advisors Alliance Group (AAG) mentor, Louis Chang, Director at AAG, for his guidance and help in gaining a better understanding of financial planning, ensuring that our product would be valuable to him and his team.

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