If you’re beginning to think about your retirement, having a good understanding of how much your pension is worth can make planning easier and more exciting. Annuity vs drawdown – what's the difference? Many of us have spent the last few decades planning and carefully saving for ...
Don't slip up! An annuity? Isn't that where you swap a brimming pension pot for a thimbleful of annual income? What Investment looks at ways to maximise your annuity income. (Annuities).doi:10.1002/9781118676646.ch6applicationsextraction...
The advantage of a LISA is simple – the government will pay you a bonus of 25p for every pound you pay up to the limit of £4,000 a year – as ISA incentives go, this can be very significant for first-time home buyers, but the rules around these ISAs can be complicated. Some ...
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So the plan is to shelter investments that are liable to income tax first, dividend tax second, and CGT third. A few tax efficiency caveats to consider Before we get into the guts of it, I’ve got to dish up some caveat pie:
This rule of thumb is so old it belongs in a rest home. But it’s still got legs because it helps you to work out how your age affects your pension portfolio decisions: Subtract your age from 100. The answer is the portion of your portfolio that resides in equities. ...
While governments and mainstream media news continue to peddle a rosy picture of economic prospects, achieved by statistical jiggery pokery, money printing and they good old fashioned political ploy of telling blatant lies, the real economic indicators tell us this economic view is an illusion. Every...
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A, My son makes 200K plus per year as an electrician in northern Alberta. Add to this a full range of benefits, pension contributions, housing allowance, travel time, tool and safety allowance,etc he is doing pretty darn good. His Masters degree Dad gave him some advice 13...
You know what a crash feels like (i.e. peak “fear”), what record highs feel like (i.e. peak “greed”), and you can appreciate how difficult it is to predict anything about the world or the markets. Since being in the middle of market turmoil is a lot different than thinking ab...