Retirement Savings

  • BusinessAOL

    Auto enrolment: some still not invited to the party

    Today is the second birthday of auto-enrolment and, while the initiative is largely a success, there are still a number of people who have been overlooked in the plan to get everyone saving for retirement. It's two years since the

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  • BusinessAOL

    Keep your pension invested, you're a long time retired

    Us Brits are a funny lot; we take our pensions earlier than workers in any other European Union country and then carry on working. Why? The average British worker accesses their personal pension stash at the age of 58, according to the European

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  • BusinessAOL

    Downsizing may not be the best option for UK's over 55s

    Over 55s in Britain are sitting on £1.9 trillion worth of housing equity, and downsizing to release that equity is a popular solution to insufficient retirement saving. However, SHIP, the trade body for equity release, conducted data analysis