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How to Make the Most of Tax Relief for Your Retirement

17 December, 2024

Whether you’re looking to increase your contributions or make the most of government incentives, pensions offer unique advantages to help you achieve your long-term financial goals. Why Pensions Are Still…

Give your children the gift of a head start this tax year-end

Claire Thomas

18 December, 2023

It could mean helping them buy their first car, providing a deposit for their first home, ensuring they have minimal debt upon leaving university or something else. However, it can…

Normal Minimum Pension Age is increasing – are you affected?

Claire Thomas

27 September, 2023

What is the Normal Minimum Pension Age? The Normal Minimum Pension Age (NMPA) is the earliest age at which a person can access and take money out of their pension…

Get Ahead of the Game: Essential Tax Planning Strategies for 2023

Claire Thomas

28 February, 2023

With the impact of double-digit inflation, a five-year freeze on most allowances and tax bands, as well as cuts to Capital Gains Tax and dividend allowances looming over the next…

Closing the Gender Pension Gap

Adam Bexson

28 February, 2023

Scottish Widows publish a gender pension gap report each year, and what they found (again) was that women were disproportionately impacted by the rising cost of living compared to men.…

Aged 45 to 70 Check if you can turn £800 into £5,500 by paying to boost your state pension

Aged 45 to 70? Check now to see if you can turn £800 into £5,500 by paying to boost your state pension

Claire Thomas

11 January, 2023

Whilst explaining the process, Martin said, “So let me take you through this because it’s not that simple. If you are aged 45 to 70, you need to check ASAP…

Will the cost-of-living crisis impact people’s decisions around pension contributions?

Adam Bexson

1 September, 2022

The perfect storm of our exit from the EU, the global pandemic, and war in Eastern Europe has provided us with a significant inflationary problem – impacting the money that…

Can financial education help reduce the gender pension gap?

Roxy Seymour-Marsh

14 June, 2022

We often hear about the gender pay gap but recently there has been an increasing amount of focus on the gender pension gap. New data’s revealed that more than half…

Are you encouraging your younger workers to engage with their pension?

Roxy Seymour-Marsh

29 April, 2022

It’s safe to assume that many of us place some value on regularly contributing to our pension pots. After all, with advances in healthcare, those born between 2018-20 are expected…

6 ways to make the most of your pension before tax-year end 2021/22

Roxy Seymour-Marsh

22 March, 2022

1. Use up your annual allowance The annual allowance is the maximum amount that you, and others on your behalf, can save into your pension each year without suffering a…

Blog Posts

Pensions

How to Make the Most of Tax Relief for Your Retirement

Give your children the gift of a head start this tax year-end

Normal Minimum Pension Age is increasing – are you affected?

Get Ahead of the Game: Essential Tax Planning Strategies for 2023

Closing the Gender Pension Gap

Aged 45 to 70? Check now to see if you can turn £800 into £5,500 by paying to boost your state pension

Will the cost-of-living crisis impact people’s decisions around pension contributions?

Can financial education help reduce the gender pension gap?

Are you encouraging your younger workers to engage with their pension?

6 ways to make the most of your pension before tax-year end 2021/22

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