Tag Archives: retirement savings
If that’s all there is my friends – well let’s keep working!
The numbers are out , extracted by the tenacious Josephine Cumbo @henryhtapper @citizensadvice @tpas Only 18,000 TPAS/CAB appointments. 925000 people checked out Pension Wise online. — Josephine Cumbo (@JosephineCumbo) July 22, 2015 Jo and I probably share differing levels of … Continue reading
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Tagged annuities, annuity, CDC, Drawdown, DWP, Noah's ark, Pension Freedoms, Pension Wise, pensions, retirement savings
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This scaremongering on auto-enrolment has to stop!
Scaremongering Scaremongering sells newspapers and we love to be afraid. It is easy to write stories that play on our fears, because they are the ones we want to read. But that doesn’t make scaremongering alright, just as it doesn’t … Continue reading
Lassitude or laxitude – 100 days of pension freedoms
“Lassitude” or “Laxitude” – what’s your judgement on how we’re carrying on? Or is this all just fine? Lassitude is a “proper” word that describes a lazy behaviour resulting from world weariness, laxitude is a made up word that describes … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, annuity, Business, CDC, dc pensions, Employment, income drawdown, Investment management, lassitude, laxitude, old, pension, Pension Freedoms, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement, retirement savings, Saving, spending, young
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When the dust settles…
For the second time in two years, George Osborne has produced a budget that will radically change the way we thing about retirement saving. If 2014 was the year we re-thought the way we spent our retirement spending, 2015 asks … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, Payroll, Pension Freedoms, pension playpen, Public sector pensions
Tagged advice, annuity, auto enrolment, Business, corporate governance, dc pensions, Financial services, George Osborne, Government, Michael Johnson, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, redistribution, Retirement, retirement income, retirement saving, retirement savings, SIPPS, state pension, Tax, tax incentives, The Treasury, Treasury, Triple-Lock
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Dear Government- “Five do’s, five don’ts” – #pensions
For those slipping quietly into retirement in the UK the political promises are about the revaluation of your state benefits, the payment of your winter allowance and the tax treatment of your savings and income. Whatever you have done or not … Continue reading
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Tagged annuity, auto enrolment, Business, Commission, DWP, Employment, exempt, Government, Greg McClymont, Leonard Cohen, Life Time Allowance, LTA, Minister Webb, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement, retirement income, retirement savings, Steve Webb, tax relief, VAT
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