Retirement Planning

  • NewsAOL

    Equity release figures show debt crisis among retired

    New figures have revealed a worrying trend in how retirees are using equity release: there has been a surge in the number of people taking money out of their property in order to clear debts - including loans and credit cards. The figures come

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  • BusinessAOL

    Managing your money in retirement

    Retirement represents a major change in lifestyle for most people, not least because their financial situation is likely to differ greatly from working life. If you are thinking about how to cope financially, here are a few tips to help you

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  • LifestyleAOL

    Could new freedoms be the end of pensions?

    Pension flexibility has been lauded as a way to give individuals control of their money and put the trust back into pensions, but flexibility could also mean the beginning of the end for retirement saving as we know it. One of the reasons behind

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  • BusinessAOL

    Your middle-class concept of retirement is out of date

    Imagine your retirement and what do you see; twenty years of travelling, relaxing and finally living your dreams, a reward for decades of slogging it out in the workplace? Well think again because your notion of retirement is as out-dated as

  • BusinessAOL

    Is homeownership a precursor to retirement?

    If you read the finance pages, there are two key themes that always emerge: property and pensions. But are the two mutually exclusive or inextricably linked? For those who don't own homes and have no realistic prospect of doing so, the two

  • LifestyleAOL

    It's never too early to be an OAP

    For many of us, we dream that when we retire we'll have all the time in the world for a golden sunset of hobbies, holidays and family/friends time. Yet with the state pension age rising and returns on private pensions falling, many of us

  • BusinessAOL

    Financial timebomb for couples without joint annuity

    Peter Jordan/PA Archive Two in every three couples don't take out a joint annuity according to the Association of British Insurers. Their research showed that of the 366,697 standard annuities sold last year, 220,0181 - more than