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Category: Pensions

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Financial Advice, Pensions, Retirement

Retirement – slowing down

It’s time for the penultimate blog in the series: Retirement – slowing down. As you get older, it is inevitable that you will slow down a bit. It might be for…

By Alice Douglass26th September 201725th April 2023Leave a comment
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Financial Advice, Pensions, Retirement

Retirement – Greater freedom

This is the sixth in the series of eight blogs regarding retirement – Retirement,  greater freedom. If this isn’t you, check out the other blogs in the series that cover…

By Alice Douglass21st September 201722nd June 2024Leave a comment
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Financial Advice, Pensions, Retirement

Retirement – choices & decisions

The fifth in my retirement series of eight blogs is arguably one of the most important – at retirement. You have been through the stages of “Will it ever happen?”, “Still…

By Alice Douglass19th September 201722nd June 2024Leave a comment
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Financial Advice, Pensions, Retirement

Retirement – nearly there!

This is the fourth in the “Retirement Series” and this is when it starts to get exciting (if you have been doing your planning). Retirement – nearly there! You probably have…

By Alice Douglass14th September 201722nd June 2024Leave a comment
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Financial Advice, Pensions, Retirement

Retirement – still some way off but doing nothing is not an option

In the third blog in a series of 8 about retirement, I look at Retirement for people where it is still some way off but doing nothing is not an option. If you would…

By Alice Douglass12th September 201722nd June 2024Leave a comment
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Financial Advice, Pensions, Retirement

Retirement – will it ever happen?

This is the second of a series of 8 “retirement” blogs – Retirement – will it ever happen? To read the first, click here Who? You are under 50 and haven’t given…

By Alice Douglass7th September 201722nd June 2024Leave a comment
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Financial Advice, Pensions, Retirement

Thinking about your retirement?

There has probably never been a time when there have been more conversations about pensions and retirement planning. I often overhear people discussing their pensions (sometimes in the pub) and…

By Alice Douglass5th September 201722nd June 2024Leave a comment
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Financial Advice, ISA, Pensions, Retirement, Savings

What is a LISA?

Lifetime ISA (LISA) the new pension? After all the pre-budget talk of reducing tax relief on pensions, the government introduced “bonuses” on ISAs available from April 2017. But what is a…

By Alice Douglass15th August 201715th September 2025Leave a comment
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Pensions, Retirement

What is a Pension?

The Government recently carried out a consultation on the structure of pensions based on a number of issues, one being the complexity of pensions… But what is a pension? And…

By Alice Douglass8th August 201715th September 2025Leave a comment
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Financial Advice, Pensions, Retirement, State Pension

Implications of the Increase in State Pension Age

On 19th July 2017, the Government announced that the State pension age increase from 67 to 68 will now be phased in between 2037 and 2039, rather than from 2044…

By Alice Douglass1st August 201722nd June 2024Leave a comment

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