Scenario Lab+

Optimize your drawdown strategy

Scenario Lab+ runs your plan across multiple drawdown strategies, and lets you choose the best one for your scenario.

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One household, four strategies. The spread between the top and bottom line is what the decision is worth.

Test your plan against the top drawdown strategies

The Bracket Smooth strategy spreads your taxable income to avoid jumping a bracket. Proportional draws from every account at once. RRSP Meltdown empties registered money early to shrink the future RRIF minimum. Sequential works through one account at a time. Each runs against your real numbers.

Bracket Smooth, Proportional, RRSP Meltdown, Sequential, and more
Compare annual savings and lifetime tax
Fine-tune your balance of available income and legacy
One household, four strategies. The spread between the top and bottom line is what the decision is worth.

Lifetime tax matters more than the ending balance

A strategy that leaves more in the account can still cost more in tax along the way. The cumulative view puts the running total side by side, so the cheapest plan is the one with the lowest line at the end rather than the one that looked best in year three.

Lifetime tax for the same four strategies. The ranking here is not the ranking above.

Your year-end income statement

CPP, OAS, employer pension, RRIF and RRSP withdrawals, non-registered interest, and taxable capital gains, broken out line-by-line. Scenario Lab+ automatically optimizes pension income splitting to help reduce your tax bill.

Federal and provincial tax calculated separately
Age amount and pension income amount applied
RRIF minimums enforced from the conversion year
A single year for Alice and Bob, from gross income down to the credits applied.
Further reading

How these rules work

Worth reading if you would rather understand the rules than take our word for the numbers.

Our promise

Why pay for Scenario Lab+?

We built Loonie Nest for our family, colleagues, and friends. Not for the big banks or advertisers. Staying independent keeps us focused on our mission - making financial tools and education accessible for all Canadians.

Your subscription directly funds ongoing development of the planner, and is shaped by feedback from the 14,000+ people who've already built a plan with it.

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For every household

A plan from a financial advisor can run $3,000 or more. Scenario Lab+ gives you that same depth for $59 a year.

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Funded by the people who use it

Loonie Nest grows through customers, not outside investors. That keeps us focused on the planner, not someone else's growth targets.

Designed for every Canadian household

What people are saying

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I tried the savings goal calculator (mid 30s here) and found it very easy and clear to understand. I'm a good saver but always been intimidated to figure out how I'm doing for retirement. This made it easy to know I'm doing just fine.
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This app was pretty quick to figure things out and really easy to use. App looks polished, the colours look good and it's simple to use.
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Love the UI and actionable recommendations at the end. Reminds me of Wealthsimple.
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Common questions

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Scenario Lab+

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Everything includedIdentical on both plans. Billing changes when you pay, not what you get.

Your household

  • Couples planning, two incomes in one view
  • Tax optimized pension income splitting
  • Save and revisit your plans

CPP and OAS

  • CPP and OAS timing strategy
  • OAS clawback detection
  • Year-by-year tax breakdown

Drawing it down

  • Decumulation strategy and withdrawal order
  • RRSP/RRIF and TFSA withdrawal modelling
  • Priority email support

Scenarios and output

  • Unlimited what-if scenarios
  • Export your full plan to Excel

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