Financing Retirement Challenges: World Economic Forum Report
For 40 years, the World Economic Forum has given impartial advice about an array of financial topics. A little while ago, it turned its attention to retired...
Planning and Financing Funerals
Planning and financing a funeral is unlike any other task. Most people, no matter how hard they try, cannot put aside the emotional implications of organisin...
Dealing With a Deceased Partner's Money
When someone dies, money may be the last thing on the surviving partner’s mind. But unfortunately, financial matters have a way of coming to the fore. To r...
The Pros and Cons of Equity Release
For those who own their own homes, but who retire with little capital or cash, equity release can help ease financial difficulties. Equity release schemes en...
Annuities: A Rip Off or a Complex Retirement Product?
The reputation of annuities has taken quite a battering in recent years. Many soon-to-be pensioners have been shocked at how their hard-earned pension pot is...
Why the CBI is Pushing for a Delay on Enforced Retirement
Plans from the coalition Government that could see the default retirement aged scrapped have been severely criticised by the Confederation for British Indust...
What to Do With a Low Pension Fund Forecast: Case Study
Pension companies have been extremely parsimonious with annuity offers in recent years, but thankfully pensioners no longer have to accept the first quote th...
Pension Companies Forcing Thousands Into an Impoverished Retirement
Britain’s pensions industry has not covered itself in glory over the years. Poor investment performance, annuity rates that fluctuate wildly from year to y...
Pensions: How to Take Control of Your Pension Pots
If you have changed jobs at least once in your career so far, then the chances are that you have accumulated more than one company pension pot. You might eve...
The Excessive Retirement Charges Affecting Pensioners
Disturbing reports have emerged of financial hardship among thousands of pensioners living in private retirement developments. These pensioners are falling v...