Pension
Planning Your Retirement
Friday, October 7th, 2011
Planning your retirement for the lifestyle you want Mention ‘life style’ and for many people it creates an image of hobbies, holidays, interiors and fashions. Life style is basically the style in which you live your life. It’s about the choices you make in life. Some choices, of course, are more important and have more [...]
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Pensions for Children
Friday, September 30th, 2011
Pocket Money, Porsches and Pensions for Children My twelve year old son George is saving his pocket money to buy a Porsche. At five pounds a week, it’s going to take a long time. As a parent though, I’m more worried about how he’s going to manage financially in the future. What options are there [...]
Tags: investment performance, pensions, saving for retirement, savings
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Your Pension and Annuity Options
Friday, September 9th, 2011
One of Worldwide’s pension experts, Andrew Stallard has put together a really useful podcast about your options when choosing to buy an annuity with your pension pot. Listen to the full podcast here with Andrew and Matthew from Kernow Pods.
Tags: annuity, annuity rates, open market option, pensions
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Open Market Option
Wednesday, June 1st, 2011
Open Market Option – it pays to shop around for your annuity If buying an annuity is on your financial ‘to do’ list, you may well have been studying the paperwork from your current provider to see what they can offer you. You may have noticed amongst those reams of paperwork a statement about how [...]
Tags: annuity, annuity rates, Independent Financial Advisers, pensions
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Easiest way to invest
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
I have been advised to invest into a tracker fund but have also read about exchange traded funds (ETF) as they are cheaper. Is that wise? We all have our pension funds, mortgage repayment vehicles, investments and ISAs etc. Each of these is invested into an investment fund which is a spread across a range [...]
Tags: ETFs, investments, life insurance, pensions
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New Year’s Financial Resolutions
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
New Year’s resolutions. They probably take 5 days on average to break. It’s probably because they are made with a bloated stomach and zero blood in your alcohol stream, but with little real drive or belief for the actual benefit at the end. If a real benefit was that you worked for four days and [...]
Tags: independent financial advice, investments, mortgages, pensions
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How healthy is your pension?
Friday, October 8th, 2010
I remember back at the age of 22 I was told to make a Will and start a pension. Nothing could have been further from my mind. Either way, I did it. Back then, the costs of setting up a pension contract were extortionate. My first two years’ pension contributions disappeared in commissions, and one [...]
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How to lose £131,000 easily
Friday, September 10th, 2010
Quite easily, the worst possible opening chat up line would be to begin to talk about pensions. Although I have been researching them for over twenty years it never ceases to amaze me how quickly I can fall asleep at the very thought of even thinking about them. And that’s probably the reason why over [...]
Tags: pensions, retirement
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Pensions, if insurance companies really cared
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
Personal pensions, or any pension for that matter, are about as exciting as getting a DVD extended version of a Halifax advert for Christmas. That said, pensions are one of the biggest investments we will ever make, yet we have the most amazing apathy towards them. They are complicated and have just become more and [...]
Tags: charges, funds, insurance companies, investments, pensions
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Pensions – the annuity rip off
Monday, July 5th, 2010
Pensions, that’s a conversation stopper. How to clear a bar in a split second. However it is one of our biggest investments next to our house and the pitfalls are considerable. I’ll review the impact from the budget but also start with a very important tip that could save you thousands.
Tags: annuity, budget, pensions, state pension, tax relief
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