From next year, those of you holding an annuity will be able to “resell” it. Good idea… or bad? And who might be able to gain from the move? By Mark Soper George Osborne has confirmed the go-ahead for the “resale” of existing annuity plans from April 2017 – a move that was pencilled in […]

Are you, or is someone you know, a woman born in the 1950s? If so they may well be one of 700,000 caught in what has been described as a “brutal pensions trap”. By Tony Watts OBE Former pensions minister Steve Webb recently admitted publicly what many people have been saying for a long time […]

A couple of years ago I wrote a blog on the RetireEasy site concerning Classic Cars, a subject dear to my heart, and the unsustainable prices that were being asked AND paid. I said that when the stock markets started to recover and interest rates were on the rise, this particular bubble would burst. Well, […]

We are truly delighted with the feedback and questions we receive from you all and in most cases we are able to offer a LifePlan solution to the financial events that you wish to plot.  From this feedback, we have put together some useful tips which hopefully will help you if you wish to plot […]

So many of us have a sizeable proportion of our assets locked up in our home that downsizing at some point during retirement is an obvious consideration.  In fact one in three of our subscribers tell us that downsizing is on their “to do list” for the future. But what are the pros and cons, […]

When Paul McCartney first sang so eloquently about the prospect of retirement in “When You’re 64”, the vast majority of those listening were certainly not thinking about how to fund their retirement. But if they’d managed to resist playing it, that copy of Sgt Pepper might be worth upwards of £1,000 today… Mark Soper mixes […]

So what have the new pensions freedom and an early 20th century writer, whose works describe labyrinthine bureaucracy, have in common? If you haven’t already guessed, let me explain, writes Mark Soper. I’m a keen visitor to www.moneysavingexpert.com. So are a great many other people – it is a very good site indeed. And in […]

Since pensions freedom went live on 6th April this year, writes Mark Soper, there has been a huge amount of “noise’’ around pensions – as well as a potentially tax-laden emergency Budget. So where does all that leave the nation’s army of retirees as well as those approaching retirement? The short answer is: no one […]

Pensions Freedom time is upon us. Sort of. And in this and an accompanying article (https://www.retireeasy.co.uk/news/article/mark%E2%80%99s-top-six-tips-on-pensions-freedoms-%E2%80%93-numbers-one-to-three) Mark Soper offers his six top tips to overcome the barriers and make the most of the opportunities Top Tip 4 – How will you use the drawdown money? There may be some very sound reasons why you may […]

Have you got a pension tucked away that you’ve forgotten about? Here’s how to find out… A couple of years ago, a survey came out with an interesting stat: that (on average) we Brits each work for six different employers over a lifetime. It also revealed that (again on average) we down over 32,000 cups […]