Budget Report – Highlights and Analysis from Informed Choice
Following the Budget today, we have taken the time to analyse the main areas to ensure we fully understand the most important Financial Planning issues for our clients.
Budget 2010 – Highlights
Mar 24, 2010
Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling is delivering what looks like to be his last ever Budget Report to the House of Commons at 12.30pm today.
Things that delay retirement
Mar 23, 2010
New research from Prudential has found that nearly three million UK adults have delayed their plans to retire due to recession, personal financial emergency or simply because they want to keep working for longer to build a larger pension fund.
Financial futures of the self-employed
Mar 23, 2010
Self-employed people could be putting their financial futures at risk by placing their businesses ahead of their long-term financial planning.
Public unhappy with public sector pensions
Mar 22, 2010
Some new research from AXA on the widening gulf between private and public sector pension provision has been picked up by the television news this evening.
Scrapping the default retirement age
Mar 19, 2010
Informed Choice chartered financial planner Martin Bamford was quoted in Money Marketing this week, in an article reporting on proposals to scrap the default retirement age.
Goodbye contracting-out
Mar 16, 2010
In what is turning out to be an interesting day for pension announcements, it was confirmed earlier that contracting-out under defined contribution pension schemes will be abolished from 6 April 2012.
NEST charging structure is an admission of Stakeholder failure
Mar 16, 2010
The government has announced that NEST will meet the Pension Commission’s goal for a low cost retirement savings scheme, as it will have an anticipated 0.3% annual management charge over the longer term.
How much should I save for retirement?
Mar 12, 2010
Informed Choice chartered financial planner Martin Bamford was featured as the expert in the lead article on the thisismoney.co.uk website today, answering the question “How much should I save for retirement?”
Is it time to give mum a financial makeover?
Mar 12, 2010
With Mother’s Day this weekend, perhaps it is time to arrange a financial makeover for your mum. New research from Defaqto has found that only 22% of women have sought financial advice.
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