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Category: Pensions Explained

25 April 2025
Reading time: 4 minutes
Pensions Explained

How ignoring your workplace pension could cost you in the long run

By Lily Megson-Harvey

Auto-enrolment has been an incredibly successful tool for getting people to save for retirement. It’s simple, automatic, and helps employees…

18 April 2025
Reading time: 4 minutes
Pensions Explained

How can you avoid the Pension Easter Egg Hunt?

By Lily Megson-Harvey

Easter egg hunts are an annual tradition enjoyed by all ages, whether you like to admit it or not, particularly…

4 April 2025
Reading time: 3 minutes
Pensions Explained

Understanding Your Pension: What You Need to Know

By Lily Megson-Harvey

Life happens. Between work, family, and everything in between, it’s easy for pensions to slip to the bottom of the priority…

14 March 2025
Reading time: 3 minutes
Pensions Explained

Key Steps to a Stress-free Retirement

By Lily Megson-Harvey

Retirement is an exciting milestone, but planning is essential to ensure a secure and comfortable future. It’s easy to get…

7 March 2025
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Pensions Explained

Tackling the gender pensions gap

By Lily Megson-Harvey

Despite progress in many areas of financial equality, the gender pension gap – the difference in pension income between female…

21 February 2025
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Pensions Explained

How could inheritance tax impact your pension plans? 

By Lily Megson-Harvey

When planning for retirement, your focus is likely on building a comfortable future. But what happens to your pension after…

22 November 2024
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Pensions Explained

How to check your pension contributions

By Lily Megson-Harvey

When it comes to planning for a financially secure retirement, understanding your pension contributions is an essential first step.  Whether…

8 November 2024
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Pensions Explained

Talk Money Week – The #DoOneThing you can do for your pensions

By Lily Megson-Harvey

The week commencing Monday 4th November 2024 marked Talk Money Week, an annual campaign aimed at encouraging an open conversation…

6 September 2024
Reading time: 4 minutes
Pensions Explained

Pensions for the self-employed: your know-how

By Lily Megson-Harvey

Workplace pensions offer a variety of benefits, including employer contributions. Perhaps one of the key benefits is that workplace pensions…

12 May 2024
Reading time: 3 minutes
Pensions Explained

What are SIPPs (Self-Invested Personal Pensions)?

By Lily Megson-Harvey

When it comes to pension planning, we all have our own unique approach. Some find comfort in the reliability of…

26 April 2024
Reading time: 4 minutes
Pensions Explained

Pensions Explained – Tracking down lost pension pots

By Lily Megson-Harvey

Britons’ careers are now more dynamic than ever, with the average person expected to have 12 jobs in their lifetime.…

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