Articles tagged "retirement"
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Tuesday, April 9th, 2013
You may be aware of new pension legislation that came into effect in October and affects everyone in business, whether as an employer or employee. The Government’s new Workplace Pension and Auto-enrolment scheme reforms mean it is now the responsibility of employers to make sure employees are automatically enrolled into a pension scheme and informed [...]
Tags: auto enrolment, pensions, retirement
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Financial News Round Up for the Week Ending 22nd February 2013
Friday, February 22nd, 2013
Welcome to your regular financial news round up. We may be a little optimistic, but there is a definite hint of spring in the air here in Cornwall! Make the most of it before the spring showers arrive… As always, if you have any queries, call us free on 0800 0112825 or email us info@wwfp.net and we’ll be happy [...]
Tags: banks, HMRC, HSBC, Inheritance tax, retirement, savings, tax
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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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Pensions Made Simple
Friday, January 25th, 2013
Apart from the pension geeks at Worldwide Financial Planning, very few people get excited by pensions. Pensions are boring, right? Most of us would probably agree, until we need to start drawing one. However, the latest government announcement on the simplification of the state pension has created quite a bit of interest – it centres [...]
Tags: pensions, retirement
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Financial News Round Up for the Week Ending 18th January 2013
Friday, January 18th, 2013
Welcome to another week’s financial news round up. And sadly, it’s another week, another UK High Street retailer in difficulties. This time it’s HMV and Blockbuster in trouble. We’ve more about that story below along with some major pension news. As always, if you have any queries, call us free on 0800 0112825 or email us info@wwfp.net and we’ll [...]
Tags: Bank of England, banks, Barclays, pensions, retirement
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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 [...]
Tags: auto enrolment, independent financial advice, pensions, retirement
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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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Financial News Round Up for the Week Ending 9th November 2012
Friday, November 9th, 2012
Welcome to your regular financial news round up, at the end of a tense and busy week in American politics. Finally, after what seems like months and months of campaigning, the US elections have taken place. And despite Republican candidate Mitt Romney spending more than 500 days on the campaign trail, incumbent president Barack Obama [...]
Tags: banks, Barclays, interest rates, investment, ISAs, pensions, retirement
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Financial News Round Up for the Week Ending 2nd November 2012
Friday, November 2nd, 2012
Welcome to our regular financial news round up, the first one of November. It’s been a time of chaos for people in the North East US and we wish them all the best in the aftermath of Sandy. Even the New York stock exchange was shut down for two days – a rare event indeed. [...]
Tags: banks, Barclays, business, FSA, Lloyds, 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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