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Category: Pensions Explained

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
Reading time: 4 minutes
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
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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
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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.…

12 April 2024
Reading time: 4 minutes
Pensions Explained

Pension tax relief explained and how it may benefit you

By Lily Megson-Harvey

Pension tax relief serves as a cornerstone of retirement planning in the UK, offering valuable incentives for people to save…

28 March 2024
Reading time: 4 minutes
Pensions Explained

Ombudsman’s Decision for WASPI women: What does it mean?

By Lily Megson-Harvey

Earlier this month, the UK Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman made a landmark decision calling for the government to compensate…

26 January 2024
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Pensions Explained

A retirement planner’s guide to ethical pensions

By Lily Megson-Harvey

Now more than ever, Britons understand the importance of making choices to suit not just their needs, but their personal…

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