Monday, November 15th, 2010
Nearly a third of over-50s have no pension plan or savings for retirement, according to a new survey by pensions and insurance giant MetLife Europe. Read More
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Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

New proposals to link state pensions and private pensions to the Consumer Price Index will save money at Government level, but could see pension income rising 25% less than expected.
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Monday, May 24th, 2010

Many over-45s are deluding themselves about the pension income and lifestyle they will achieve in retirement. For most, their reality will fall short of their hopes by around £5,000 a year, according to AXA.
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Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

The election and the ‘week of indecision’ caused stock market turbulence that played havoc with the projected pension income of savers. Your projected annual pension income could have varied by almost £800, depending on when you retired in the elections fortnight. What a difference a day makes … when you’ve a pension plan to worry about.
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Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

UK adults are now facing a retirement of 20 years plus, as men are predicted to live to 86 and women 89. Prudential reveals that 55% of British adults fear they may run out of finance in retirement, and are now boosting their pensions planning with second pensions, or other savings and investments.
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Thursday, April 15th, 2010

Pension planning is on the minds of savers again, with 1 in 3 people thinking of setting up private pension schemes this year, compared with just 1 in 5 a year ago, according to Legal and General.
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Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Massive problems with underfunding in Britain’s largest pension schemes has emphasised again the trend away from depending on occupational pensions, and the need to consider taking control of your own retirement planning, with a personal pension. New data just released by the French research specialise AlphaValue has shown huge deficits in British pension funds including [...]
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Thursday, July 30th, 2009
A new report by the Insurance Industry Working Group (IIWG), led by the Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling, encourages the consumer to act on his own initiative to arrange life insurance, critical illness insurance and private pensions provisions in the future.
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Monday, July 6th, 2009
The world of pensions planning places high demands on our capacity to see, and make predictions, far into the future. Retirement seems a long way off, when you are in your twenties. However, these early years are precisely the time when it makes sense to set up a pension, and begin planning for that ‘golden sunset’ [...]
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
Talking mortgages is so much easier if the basics are clear in your mind. Here we cut through the small print, and with ten simple points, show how mortgages work. A mortgage is made up of two elements: the ‘capital loan’ i.e. the amount you borrowed, and the ‘monthly interest’ due on that capital The two main mortgage types [...]
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