Investment calculators for South Africa
Bond repayment, retirement, retirement annuity, investment growth, compound interest and tax free savings, each showing the answer and the assumptions behind it. There is no fund, policy, bank or platform on the other side of the result, because TradeIntel is an information publisher, not a financial services provider, and has nothing to sell you at the end.
Bond repayment
Monthly repayment, total interest, and what paying extra saves. Then the return you would need to beat it in the market.
Open the calculatorRetirement calculatorRetirement
What you will have, what income it sustains, and when it runs out. Checked against the living annuity drawdown band.
Open the calculatorRetirement annuity calculatorRetirement annuity
What an RA actually costs you after the refund, against the 27.5% and R430 000 limits.
Open the calculatorInvestment calculatorInvestment growth
Lump sum plus monthly contributions, with escalation, fees and inflation all shown. The fee line is its own number.
Open the calculatorCompound interest calculatorCompound interest
Principal, rate, compounding frequency. A year by year table and the effective annual rate.
Open the calculatorTFSA calculatorTax free savings
Growth inside the R46 000 and R500 000 limits, when you hit them, and the tax you avoid.
Open the calculatorWhy these are different
Most South African calculators are run by a fund manager, an insurer or a tax filing service. The calculator is the top of a funnel and the answer is shaped to end in that company’s product: a higher return assumption here, a hidden fee there, a call to action underneath.
TradeIntel has no product to sell you at the end. The inputs are yours, the statutory figures are quoted with their source and date, and fees are shown as the separate number they are. The same desk publishes the JSE today page and a JSE and US share screener, which is where the calculators came from.
- Every assumption is visible and editable
- Fees are a line, not a footnote
- SARS limits are enforced in the tool, not in a disclaimer
- Results in today’s money as well as nominal
- Copy the full summary, assumptions included
TradeIntel is an information publisher, not a licensed financial services provider. This calculator shows what the assumptions you entered produce. It is general information, not financial advice, and the return figure is your assumption, not ours. Nothing on this page is a forecast.