Weekly Round-Up – Friday 21st October 2016

Happy Friday, readers! It’s time to catch up.

Here are some of the things that we covered at Informed Choice this week.

On the blog this week

The State Pension age is under an independent review. Could now be the right time for a bespoke State Pension experience?

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published the findings of its thematic review of non-advised annuity sales practices. Here’s what they had to say.

Budgeting is a cornerstone of Financial Planning, but more than half of us still don’t take this basic step, despite its potential to make us happier!

The latest podcast episodes

What are the five most important tax breaks you might be missing? Martin explains in our weekly podcast episode.

In our interview episodes this week, Martin spoke to Lisa Stanley from Good with Money and Tim Price, value investor and author of Investing Through the Looking Glass.

From this week onwards, we will be publishing three new episodes of the Informed Choice Radio podcast each week, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning. You can find all of the details on the new website for our podcast at www.icradio.co.uk.

Before you go

We still have a handful of free places available for Nick’s seminars at Cranleigh Arts Centre on Saturday 29th October. Come along to hear Nick explain how to take cash from your pension pot, with seminars at 11am or 1.30pm.

Find out more and reserve your free tickets at informedchoice.wpengine.com/take-pension-pot-free-event-cranleigh.