retirement

Are you, or will you be, an over-60s socialite?

August 10, 2015 by TIna

Category: Lifestyle & retirement & Uncategorized

If that latter description sounds like you, or someone you know, you’re in very good company. Many of today’s over-60s are living life in a way that has a lot more in common with 20-somethings, despite four decades of age gap. Being part of a circle of close friends, catching up on social media and even the odd spot of online dating; they’re enjoying life to the full in a way that previous generations would hardly have dared to dream of.

One in five reaching State Pension age, return to work.

July 23, 2015 by TIna

Category: pensions & retirement & Uncategorized

More than one in five (21%) of pensioners have gone back to work since they reached the State Pension age, or are planning to do so in the future, according to new research from Prudential. The rise of the retired jobseeker, along with the growing trend for a period of pre-tirement as previously identified by Prudential, shows how the modern retirement reality continues to shift further from the traditional norm of giving up work for good on a set date.

Latest ‘Retirement Readiness’ report shows the UK still has a major savings problem

July 02, 2015 by TIna

Category: Lifestyle & retirement & savings & Uncategorized

New research in Spring 2015 from Aegon UK reveals that just 7% of the UK population are on track for the retirement they aspire to, exactly the same percentage as in April 2014. Aegon’s third UK Readiness Report – the latest in a series of reports that looks at attitudes towards retirement – has a particular focus on levels of engagement with workplace pensions. It finds that the nation’s ‘readiness score’ has actually fallen over 12 months from 52 to 47. The people surveyed said that they wanted to retire at age 63, contributing to the falling score, as people’s expectations about the amount of money they hope to retire on each year rose from £35,000 to £42,000, despite the fact that this would require a saving pot of more than £1m, a sum higher than the new pension lifetime allowance.

Planning around the retirement threshold

June 12, 2015 by TIna

Category: retirement & Uncategorized

By now, if you are somewhere in the retirement experience – either approaching it, passing through it or leaving it behind – you will already have experienced firsthand your own childhood and maybe that of your children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Now you are heading to experience later life, which for most of us will stretch forward for more time than we might have expected all those years ago.

Divorce can cost in lost retirement income

June 08, 2015 by TIna

Category: retirement & Uncategorized

New research from Prudential, in the insurer’s ‘Class of’ Study, which tracks the future plans and aspirations of people planning to retire in the next 12 months, has now been released, in the study’s eighth year. This year the research found that for the ‘Class of 2015’ divorcees, the average expected retirement income is £15,700 compared with £17,800 for those who have never been through a marriage break-up.

Planning for a better financial future in retirement

May 21, 2015 by TIna

Category: retirement & Uncategorized

Recent HSBC research identified four broad actions which may help today’s retirement savers to create an informal plan and work towards a better financial future for themselves.

Are you, or will you be, an over-60s socialite?

One in five reaching State Pension age, return to work.

Latest ‘Retirement Readiness’ report shows the UK still has a major savings problem

Planning around the retirement threshold

Divorce can cost in lost retirement income

Planning for a better financial future in retirement

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