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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

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

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

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
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Pensions Explained

Key Steps to a Stress-free Retirement

By Lily Megson

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

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

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

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

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

6 September 2024
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Pensions Explained

Pensions for the self-employed: your know-how

By Lily Megson

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

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

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

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