The pension gap: Life expectancy means women need to save more for retirement
Women need to save an extra £185,000 in their pension to close the gender gap and ensure they have enough for their entire retirement.
Can you fund your lifestyle post retirement?”
When you dream about retiring – what does that dream look like? Are you enjoying several holidays a year, dining out with friends and family once a week, upgrading your car for something you’ve always promised yourself?
Cash is not king – planning is!
The heady days of high interest rates and getting a warm glow from watching savings grow for very little effort are long over – yet still vast sums remain languishing in cash accounts that barely manage to earn 0.3%.
Will you still be working in retirement?
Many of us dream of the day we'll be able to retire and leave the stresses of the workplace behind, but unfortunately, research from Skipton Building Society and retiresavvy.co.uk has revealed that this dream may be further away from reality than many people hope for.
Are you pinning your hopes on an inheritance?
Are you hoping to receive an inheritance at some point in the future? If so, how much are you expecting? Simon Harnaman cautions you could be drastically overestimating the amount you'll get...