If you are a young person, you are likely to be hardest hit by proposed State pension reforms. That is […]

The regulator and tax man are both getting tougher with the pension fraudsters who offer a service designed to ‘liberate’ […]

Those who witnessed the ‘swagger of Jagger’ at Glastonbury on Saturday evening were generally impressed or experienced an overwhelming sense […]

New research from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has found that pensioners have been badly affected by rising living costs. They […]

Apparently there are now over 1 million people over the age of 65 still working. Leaving aside the fact that […]

The lifetime allowance for pensions is being cut from £1.5m to £1.25m on 6th April 2014. With this cut comes […]

The real cost of quantitative easing for those reaching retirement has been calculated as a 29% drop in income, according […]

I recall the saying “I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor, rich is better” but I had to do a […]

One of the delights of the job that I do is witnessing the ‘light bulb moment’. This is when I […]

New research from NS&I has found that just under a third of Britain’s adults (31%) do not know how they […]

According to a new study from the Institute of Economic Affairs, retirement is bad for your health. The study found […]

UK pension plans are governed by a wide range of HMRC rules about contributions, tax treatment and benefits. One of […]

I had a great meeting yesterday with a new client. Some time ago he had made the sensible move to […]

Sir Alex Ferguson, Britain’s most successful football manager, has announced his retirement this morning at 71 years old. As Manchester […]

The Pensions Ombudsman recently ruled in favour of a personal pension provider (Virgin Money) who deducted an “unauthorised member payment” […]

MPs are apparently calling on Steve Webb the Pensions Minister to ban consultancy charging. This is a practice where the […]

If you retired today, how much income would you need in order to to have the lifestyle that you want […]

Like many Financial Planners I want to make sure that when I describe a possible course of action to my […]

I had a very interesting conversation yesterday afternoon about commuting pension income for tax-free cash. The lady in question had […]

Yesterday I wrote about the poor service of a couple of providers, AVIVA and Capita. Today the former seem to […]