How Green is Your Defined Benefit Pension?
It has become increasingly difficult to join a defined benefit pension scheme, with just a handful existing outside of the...
Meet Your Future Self!
If you were to meet your future self, would you recognise him or her? Would you care about them? Would...
Retirement living standards offer later life budget guidelines
In the last week, the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association, along with Loughborough University, launched its Retirement Living Standards. The...
Which Mistake Would You Rather Make?
In his book, Boombustology, Vikram Mansharamani sets out how you might be able to identify that an investment bubble is...
The Rise of the Nonagenarians
This week, the Office for National Statistics reported on the ageing population in the UK. -There was an increase of...
Location, Location, Asset Location
Your retirement savings (and any other savings) are only ever made up of only five types of asset: -Cash on...
How Negative Interest Rates Could Affect Your Retirement
A few years ago, if I had suggested that it would be sensible to consider how negative interest rates might...
What to do when things go wrong in retirement
Listening to this week’s Informed Choice Radio podcast, I was struck by how it related to income in retirement. You’d...
Minimising liquidity risk in our client portfolios
The problems with the Woodford funds have been well documented. We are delighted that these suspended funds never formed part...
Is your state pension worth £280,800?
The state pension has hit the headlines again in the last week, with the Centre for Social Justice proposing increases...