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Pensions
Two-thirds of a typical pension pot comes from investment growth
Most people, 75% apparently, don’t realise how much of their pension pot comprises investment...
You’ll need more than just pensions to retire
In the minds of many with whom we talk, whether or when they can retire depends on the income that...
2:3 of over 55s don’t understand pensions and IHT
Two thirds of over-55s don’t know that or understand how pensions will come into the IHT net next...
A free frappuccino or a decent retirement? The choice is yours…
Three headlines this week all give different shadings of the same message: “Just 9% of Britons on...
Box ticking won’t stop the pension scammers
When interest rates were nothing and transfer values from final salary pensions were eye-watering,...
Pensions and IHT will be an admin nightmare
If you die with anything left in a pension pot, it will be liable to IHT from next April. How...
‘Gilt Yields Surge’ What? And Why?
‘UK borrowing costs jump, gilt yields surge to highest since 1998’. If you’re an investment...
“Advisers confirm rise in pension lump sum withdrawals”
It was the norm back in the pre-2015 day to take all of your tax-free cash from your pension, buy...
“A-Day 20 years on: what has changed?”
A-Day, aka Pensions Simplification was supposedly a big thing. Three decades of mis-mashed rules...
““Other priorities” hampering Generation Z’s interest in pensions reveals SPP polling”
In case you’re not fully up on your Gens, the Zs are twenty-somethings or teens. That they’re not...
“Nearly two-thirds of higher rate self-employed not making pension contributions”
You won’t get much of a pension if you’re an employee now unless you take control, pay...
“Only 11% of UK adults meet basic benchmarks of true financial security”
Of course, one man’s financial security is another’s breadline, it’s all relative. Some we know...
“Majority of over 50s want to continue working in retirement”
When you’re 20, 40 sounds old, midlife crisis time. And surely I won’t have to work until I’m 50?...
“Career breaks and menopause leave £113k gap in women’s pensions”
Men (still) have bigger pension funds than women. Not a surprise and according to this research,...