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You know you should sort out your pension. I’m not talking only about the monthly sum going into your pension fund. Here, I’m talking about finding all these pension pots you forgot about long ago and finding the best deals around. Do you want to know how you can get…
Deciding to become semi-retired is not a trivial matter. Ask yourself the following questions: How much money do I need to live comfortably? How much money do I need to retire fully? How is becoming semi-retired going to affect my pension? What will give meaning to my life in semi-retirement?…
Photo by Harli Marten on Unsplash Research shows an average retired couple in the UK spends £26,000 annually to retire comfortably. How much do you need to retire comfortably depends on the life you want in retirement? Estimate how much money do you need to retire comfortably by estimating your…
Saving for retirement has not been on my mind recently. I used to worry about saving for retirement in my 20s. Started saving for retirement, through the extremely beneficial pension scheme of UK universities that has just been changed, in my 30s. In my 40s I worried a bit about…
Editor’s note: Tonight’s post is by Lewis Humphries. Lewis is a finance and business blogger from the UK. He writes extensively for sites such as Career Addict and Life Hack, while his work has also featured on sites such as Business Insider, Investopedia and Money Crashers. He also has a…
If you aren’t, you better join; and soon. Where I come from opting in or out of a pension scheme was not an issue. Making pension contributions was not discussed and having a pension, albeit in some cases a very modest one, was taken as a given. What was…
…about how much the fund management industry takes out. At least this is what a documentary – How to Win the Loser’s Game – going online tomorrow has concluded. Why do I care? Why I decided to tell you about this documentary? I’ve told you that I am concerned about…
Do you worry about your retirement? I do. And everyone I talk to lately seem to worry about retirement as well. My colleagues worry. My friends worry. My PhD students worry. My sons (the grown up ones) worry. Frankly, in the world we live in, one will be rather silly…
Many years ago I persuaded myself that, as I had become self-employed, it was important to take care of my aged self. Or at least, think about it. I don’t recall now whether this was from a call or a suggestion or I came to the conclusion without prompting. I…
The retirement lifestyle to which we aspire has been on my mind lately. You see, we want to have a comfortable retirement where we travel, spend time in sunny places far away and go native by learning the language and culture. In brief, we don’t want a retirement in front of…
Last time I was visiting a friend in the south of England, we naturally drifted towards discussing our pension provisions. Well, we’re both academics, women in our 50s, and we learn through experience that sound money management needs the attention of a good woman. While we were busy discussing…
As regular readers will know, we are looking to build an investment portfolio and are therefore becoming interested in the science and practice of storing money – that is, investing. So let me dream for a little, imagine that we have already amassed a stash and want to put it…