If you remember nothing else from this blog, please remember this – Shop around for your annuity income. Depending on the type of pension scheme the money is coming from, you will generally be able to boost your retirement income significantly. The easy thing to do when the paperwork lands on your doorstep is to [...]
Do you have any old pensions that you have lost track of? Believe me that is not such a strange question and it does happen. So much so that there is a free government service to help you. The likelihood is that during your working life you will have had several jobs and possibly a [...]
Bearing in mind the current economic backdrop and the need for the Chancellor to balance the books, there should be no surprises that this report didn’t contain a huge raft of giveaways, however despite this there were still some interesting features and a few surprises too. The freeze in capital gains tax allowances means that [...]
Improving your financial fitness is pretty similar to improving your physical fitness and it’s easy to make progress if you put your mind to it. The problem is that both are very easy to put off until tomorrow. Days become weeks, then months and years and the problem gets bigger and harder to fix. For [...]