Monthly Archives: January 2012
05
2012
Fewer than 40% of individuals are saving into a pension plan these days, with pension saving at its lowest level for ten years, according to recent figures released from the Department for Work and Pensions (known as DWP). The DWP …
04
2012
Which pensions and annuities are best for you? When you sort out your retirement income, you have various options to consider and some very important decisions to make. You don’t have to make a hurried one-off decision when you retire. …
03
2012
Great care must be taken when choosing your annuity because this is likely to determine the amount of retirement income you get to live on for the rest of your life – which could be for a good few years. An annuity will …
02
2012
In November this year Pensions Minister Steve Webb announced that pension reforms designed to get millions more people saving through workplace pension schemes will now be brought in more gradually. This follows the example of the previous government, which had already …
01
2012
Help is on the horizon for those people with smaller pension funds. Advisers generally are keeping clear of these smaller funds as they are not cost effective. So, what can advisers do to open up the market for those clients …
01
2012
Annuities are best, a song I’ve put together to the words of Auld Lang Syne. My thanks to Robbie Burns for giving me the idea. Now, if you could just stand in a circle and join hands – the right …


