Mark Soper – RetireEasy Following a report to the FSA by PWC, the City regulator is set to instruct pension providers to reduce their projection rates.

Mark Soper – RetireEasy It was announced today that the Government’s CPI measure of inflation increased by 3.5% in March, approaching double the Bank of England’s target of 2.0%. Food and clothes were cited as the main culprits, so bad news for retirees.

Richard Collinson – RetireEasy What would you consider to be a reasonable growth rate for you Pension Plan (that’s Yield + the increase in share prices) for a reasonably conservative and well spread portfolio, over the long term.

Pensioners will receive a boost to their retirement income from today as a significant increase to the State Pension kicks-in. A single pensioner will receive an increase of £5.30 per week and pensioner couples will receive an increase of £8.50 per week. These increases will be very welcome following the recent steep increases in fuel […]

Mark Soper-RetireEasy The new tax year officially commenced on Good Friday and the ISA allowances increased on the same day.

Chris Collinson – RetireEasy One of the lesser known effects of the lack of rainfall in England is the shortage of water on the inland waterways. This has resulted in very low levels of water in the reservoirs that feed the canals. These reservoirs were very low at the end of last summer and things […]

Chris Collinson – RetireEasy 3 February 2012. The way annuities are sold is costing half a million retirees each year as much as £1bn in future pension income, a report claims.

Mark Soper – RetireEasy This week the Office of National Statistics provided an update in their life expectancy statistics and much of the press centred on their announcement that a third of all babies born in the last year are expected to live until at least 100.We hope the Royal Household is saving up for […]

Mark Soper – RetireEasy A huge fuss was made about the tax on pensioners following the changes to the age-related personal allowances announced in last week’s Budget but what does this all mean?

Not yet retired? You can now include all your additional savings, investments and Pension Contributions between now and your retirement, taking into account increasing these Additional Contributions year-on-year and stipulating whether these are one-off or recurring contributions. New useful charts There are now three additional charts, further breaking down your assets and income. The charts […]