
Retirement
Lost in Space? Act now to track down all your pensions!
Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
One marked change in modern life is the huge shift in work patterns. Many people will do a large number of jobs and possibly multiple careers throughout their life time. The days of school, one work place and then retirement are largely gone. Many of these jobs will come with a workplace pension and due [...]
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55 is the pension highway legal limit
Friday, February 22nd, 2013
With the state retirement age galloping towards 70 faster than a Findus lasagne, it is worth noting that there are ways to access your personal pension at 55 – but there are a lot of ‘buts’. The dream of full retirement at 55 may be out of reach for most of us. However, a 4 [...]
Tags: pensions, retirement, tax, tax relief
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Looking to the Future
Thursday, January 3rd, 2013
Happy New Year to all our readers from everyone at Worldwide Financial Planning. Our very best wishes to you for a happy, healthy and prosperous 2013. A new year means a new start and a time to think about the future, so with our first article of the year, we’re thinking about the next 12 [...]
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What’s ahead in 2013?
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013
After our look back at 2012, this week we look ahead to the coming year. What’s in store for the financial world and, more importantly, for your finances in 2013? Obviously, one has an effect on the other. Changes in regulations to the financial industry have an impact on our personal finances, as do any [...]
Tags: auto enrolment, income tax, Inheritance tax, nil rate band, pensions, tax, tax relief
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EU Gender Directive
Monday, November 12th, 2012
Act now to beat the EU Gender Directive deadline and save your pension! The European Union’s income is much in the news recently. Even though Parliament has recently voted to freeze the amount of money we send to Europe, this “freeze” will allow for an increase to compensate for inflation. The end result is that [...]
Tags: annuity, Europe, pensions, retirement
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Auto-Enrolment: Make The Most Of Your Choices
Friday, October 19th, 2012
The politicians are meddling with pensions again! Cynics may say that the pensions crisis could be solved by rolling an existing perfect pension scheme out to the nation – the one currently enjoyed by those lucky members of the House of Commons. However, this would in all probability bankrupt the country so most of us [...]
Tags: auto enrolment, business finance, Employee benefits, pensions, retirement
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Investments, Pensions and Technology
Friday, October 12th, 2012
We’re taking a slightly different approach to pensions and investments this week and going via the world of new technology. If you’re thinking that the worlds of pensions and technology such as smart phones couldn’t be further apart, well, it might be time for a rethink. We’ve heard from many of our clients who haven’t [...]
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Five Pension Myths Busted
Friday, August 31st, 2012
With final salary pension schemes becoming less common and more people having to fund their own retirement with a money purchase pension, our pension geeks are on a mission to bust some commonly held myths about these types of pensions. Myth number 1 – if you die before retirement the money accumulated in your pension [...]
Tags: Inheritance tax, pensions, retirement, tax relief, trusts
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Pensions: What’s the Benefit?
Tuesday, July 24th, 2012
Pensions: what’s the benefit? Following on from last week’s pensions article, we’ll look in more detail here about how you can find the best pension scheme for you and for your employees, following the changes to workplace pensions. All company pension schemes will need to be compliant with new Government Workplace pension law, but that [...]
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What’s Going On With Pensions?
Tuesday, July 24th, 2012
Pensions: what’s going on? As we’ve mentioned in a few articles recently, there are a lot of changes afoot with pensions. If you’re an employer, these are changes that are likely to affect you and your employees. They may also have an impact on you as an employee. Our pensions team have put together the [...]
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