by Town Close Financial Planning | Mar 20, 2023 | Pension & Retirement News
On the face of it the pension changes are good news. Having spent the previous decade or more chipping away at the tax advantages of pensions the chancellor appears to have blown things wide open again. However, on balance, I don’t particularly welcome... by Town Close Financial Planning | Apr 26, 2022 | Pension & Retirement News
Graduating from work, maturation, arrivement, jubalacion, retirement, call it what you will, it’s perhaps the most important phase of life. It will be daunting, exciting and emotional. This memo aims to help you on the mental side of things. My experience of 25+ years... by Town Close Financial Planning | Mar 10, 2022 | Guest Post, Pension & Retirement News
My boss this week was approximately 39 inches tall, wore a Spiderman cape and kept tootling off for a wee whenever he got bored. He was also a bit of a taskmaster. At the tender age of four, he had fulfilled his dream of opening his own carwash. He just had one... by Town Close Financial Planning | Sep 13, 2021 | General News, Pension & Retirement News
The answers to most financial planning questions could and should be simple. Financial planning struggles with a surfeit of complication. I believe our regulator (understandably paranoid) should shoulder some responsibility. But the practitioners are the main... by Town Close Financial Planning | Aug 17, 2021 | Pension & Retirement News
One day we all graduate from work, voluntarily or otherwise, and thus begins 14,000 days of “retirement”, something we have discussed here: https://www.townclosefp.co.uk/retirement-funds/ But what about the bit that comes before? There are two aspects to getting ready... by Town Close Financial Planning | Apr 8, 2021 | General News, Investment News, Pension & Retirement News
It strikes me we have some strange priorities. This Summer we will spend about £100 million watching the new Bond film. We will also donate about £6 million to The World Cancer Research Fund UK, which I believe is the UK’s largest cancer prevention charity. My...