Life is full of challenges and possibly the single biggest challenge of longer life expectancy is working out how to finance it. There are more options than “just” pensions and even if you do go down the pension route (which is often a very sensible approach), there can be all kinds of considerations involved in […]
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Is it time to say goodbye to annuities?
Times change but sometimes it can take a while for established systems to catch up with this fact. For example, it took until 2015 for the law to recognise that using a pension pot to buy an annuity was not necessarily the right approach for everyone and to make it possible for people to use […]
Ensuring a comfortable retirement for yourself
Some quiz shows allow contestants to “stop the clock” but in real life, time marches onwards relentlessly and therefore preparing for our later years should be high on the average person’s agenda. Even if, at the present time, you do not envisage yourself having a traditional retirement, you might find it useful to consider the […]