Retirement Planning – How long do you want to work… ?
New labour market figures show record levels of employment for the over 65s. As people are living longer, a parallel…
New labour market figures show record levels of employment for the over 65s. As people are living longer, a parallel…
Statistics are showing a slowdown in the rate of improvements on our longevity, but don’t let the headlines mask the…
Changes to income tax, NICs and pension contributions are coming for 2019/20. One of the few certainties about 2019 is…
In early December the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) announced the thresholds that should apply to automatic enrolment pension…
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is aiming to expand pension coverage among the self-employed. Pension automatic enrolment -…
New year, new resolutions to break? Try our four financial resolutions with long term benefits. Have your New Year resolutions…
The State Pension Age (SPA) became equal for men and women for the first time, at age 65, on 6…
The 2018 Budget, which was delivered on a Monday for the first time since 1962, produced a number of surprises,…
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is a centre-left think tank that has a long history of influencing Labour…
There is absolutely no doubt that pension savings have grown after six years of Automatic Enrolment, but more progress is…
…the beginning of the end for rising life expectancy? A paper published in August by the Office for National Statistics…
Be wary of cold-callers who offer a ‘free’ pension review – it could cost you more than you think. Cold-calling…
There was a dramatic increase in the number and the value of transfers out of defined benefit (usually final salary)…
It is most definitely worth working out what your potential pension pot could actually buy for you in terms of…
With the tax year end approaching, have you maximised your pension contributions? Both February and March are rightly popular times…
State pensions will rise by 3% next April, but it’s not all strictly good news. The BBC website, covering the…
The Chancellor, Phillip Hammond, announced the date of his first Autumn Budget as Wednesday 22 November and this will be…
As the dream of retirement creeps further out of reach, Self-employment has become the route of many. There are around…
Two years on from the introduction of pension ‘freedoms’ or pension ‘flexibility’, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has examined its…
Do you know when you will start to receive your single-tier State pension? You can use the government website (www.gov.uk/state-pension-age)…
State pensions are not quite what was advertised – over half of eligible pensioners are not receiving the full new…
Cuts and adjustments made to the two main pension allowances since 2011 have made retirement planning all the more complicated.…
A government initiated independent review by John Cridland in March has proposed bringing forward the move to a state pension…
Automatic enrolment has reached a new landmark, but the path from 2017 onwards could be challenging. When automatic enrolment (AE)…