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 | 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 | Aug 5, 2020 | Pension & Retirement News
It’s a big number, isn’t it? A lot of days to fill, maybe 40% of your life. It really does warrant thinking about, doesn’t it? For us, your 14,000 days starts at 55, when you start thinking about what comes next. It ends at about 93, when what came next ends. People... by Town Close Financial Planning | Feb 4, 2020 | Pension & Retirement News
If you pay much attention to the media and advertisers, you may think that retirement is all about riding jet skis, sipping sherry on the French riviera or cuddling grandchildren. No doubt you’ve seen one, if not all, of the images on many of the retirement articles...