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One of the biggest stories of the past century has been a steady and impressive rise in life expectancy. Life expectancy has been on the rise globally for many years, and despite recent suggestions of a slowdown or pause in life expectancy improvements, we can enjoy many more years of life

Time is your most valuable resource, so it's important that you spend it well. We discuss how you can best explore your goals for retirement through financial planning.

Recently state pension age has been increasing in the UK and now it is the same for men and women. State pension age is currently increasing from 65 to 66. Once this transition is completed, further increases are scheduled to 67 and then 68. Increasing life expectancy may result in

A new law has come into force which makes it illegal for companies to cold call about pensions. The ban on unwanted, unsolicited phone calls to people about their pensions follows an industry campaign to make the practice illegal. Companies breaking the new law could face fines of up

We explore the factors that affect your retirement age and reveal the question you really ought to be asking instead.

We explore how to extract value from your business progressively, tax-efficiently and in a way that could help you to achieve financial independence.

If you have recently been automatically enrolled into a workplace pension, you should be feeling happy with yourself, staying opted in, making contributions and building your pension fund feels great. But it might not be enough. Most employed people are building their retirement income in two ways: National Insurance contributions

We explore how the most common retirement concerns can be mitigated with the help of a Financial Planner.

I would like you to imagine for a moment that you have reached your retirement. It is Monday morning. On Friday night you were at your retirement party and you were showered with gifts and well wishes from your colleagues. You spent Saturday with a warm glow remembering the previous

Successful long-term investing is not just about buying low and selling high. Investment prices are vulnerable to everything from natural disasters to political unrest. We are living in uncertain times and so we thought it would be a good idea to go back to basics. Whilst rises and falls in

What is Financial Independence? When an individual prepares for retirement they may not realise it but they are actually getting ready for an important event. This event forms the corner stone of all financial plans for those of us still in gainful employment.  The event is financial independence.

Do you want to take control of your financial future? Do you feel as though you would benefit from an objective view on your current financial plan? Great! But… Are you worried about what you might hear? or are you

When it comes to reading up on investments it’s important to understand investment news. More importantly what is – and what isn’t – investment news. Here are two guidelines we use to assess the worth of any news & analysis. Once you know these guidelines, you can apply them

For those that aren’t familiar with the book Eat That Frog, I will summarise: Humans have a tendency to procrastinate. We tend to put off decisions in the hope that they will either go away or someone else will make the decision for us. The book uses an analogy

A job for life seems to be a thing of the past. It is rare to find someone who has stayed with the same company for their entire working life. Most people nowadays are not averse to changing employer. Often pensions benefits built up with a former employer may