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20 Reasons Why You Will Spend Retirement Worrying About Money (and 13 things you can do about it)
You will worry about money in retirement because: 1) You will not invest enough on a regular basis. 2) You […]
Julia Docker
Sep 3, 20143 min read


What would you do?
What would you do? You are in good health. You have lots of hobbies and interests that you want to […]
Julia Docker
Aug 28, 20141 min read


11 steps to prepare for retirement
Are you ready for life in retirement? According to the Ready for Ageing Alliance, there are eleven steps you should […]
Julia Docker
Aug 27, 20143 min read


Life’s stressful events
Apparently some of the most stressful of life events include; Moving house; Changing jobs or being made redundant; Getting divorced […]
Julia Docker
Aug 19, 20141 min read


5 things to consider before withdrawing your entire pension fund
From April 2015 you will be able to take the whole of your pension plan fund in one lump sum. […]
Julia Docker
Aug 7, 20142 min read


What is your Healthy Life Expectancy?
We talk a lot about life expectancy in the world of Financial Planning, but perhaps healthy life expectancy is a […]
Julia Docker
Aug 5, 20143 min read


Not so much freedom after all
Freedom and choice in pensions allows, from April 2015, a pension plan owner to take the whole of their pension […]
Julia Docker
Aug 5, 20143 min read


Your pension needs to last for this long
In my post yesterday I said that we often comment that people underestimate their life expectancy and that some people […]
Julia Docker
Aug 2, 20141 min read


How long does your pension have to last?
We make the generalisation on a regular basis that people underestimate their life expectancy. We sometimes say that people significantly […]
Julia Docker
Aug 1, 20141 min read


Dear George
What follows is an open letter to Rt Hon George Osborne MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer, copied to Steve Webb […]
Julia Docker
Jul 24, 20143 min read


Less lucrative state pension delay
If you choose to delay receiving your state pension from 2016, the decision to defer will be less lucrative than […]
Julia Docker
Jul 23, 20142 min read


Minimum standards required
The Treasury have announced their plans to provide a guidance service to those people with a defined contribution pension plan […]
Julia Docker
Jul 22, 20142 min read


The New Age of Retirement and How the Baby Boomers Are Changing Everything
Not content with filming a feature-length documentary about the Baby Boomer generation and their retirement, I will be collaborating with […]
Julia Docker
Jul 22, 20142 min read
Is your BMW causing an unhappy retirement?
As a BMW driver, I was slightly perturbed to read at the weekend that this particular marque is the most […]
Julia Docker
Jul 20, 20142 min read
Retirement planning? What retirement planning?
A study conducted by Aviva last week concluded that one in ten say they will ‘work until they drop’. This […]
Julia Docker
Jul 17, 20141 min read


How to increase and decrease dementia risk
An ageing population brings with it certain health challenges, not least dementia. With cases of dementia forecast to rise to […]
Julia Docker
Jul 15, 20142 min read


Don’t regret a lack of advice
Research by specialist annuity provider Just Retirement has identified that three quarters of people who didn’t consider all their at […]
Julia Docker
Jul 14, 20141 min read


The cost of being a pensioner
How much does it cost each year to be a pensioner? According to new research from Key Retirement Solutions, the […]
Julia Docker
Jul 8, 20142 min read


Freedom and choice in pensions webcast
In announcing the “Freedom and choice in pensions” changes at the last Budget, the Chancellor also told us that there […]
Julia Docker
Jul 1, 20142 min read


Pensions or ISAs?
With all the changes that have been announced to both pensions and ISAs in the Budget, which might be considered […]
Julia Docker
Jun 27, 20142 min read
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