Retirement Income & Pension Planning
Truth. Simplicity. Transparency.
Are you saving enough for retirement?
According to a recent survey by the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA 2019)*
- Over half of savers not confident they are saving enough for retirement
- Over a third (37%) wrongly think the auto-enrolment minimum pension contribution level is the Government’s ‘recommended amount’ to be comfortable in retirement.
Most people during their career accumulate a number of different pension plans. Yet maintaining separate plans is often complicated – and may lead to lost investment opportunities, exposure to undue risk and higher costs. We can help you avoid these problems. For instance, by completing a full analysis of your retirement needs and pension values.
It is never too soon to think about planning for a comfortable retirement.
Our Services & Expertise
We can give financial advice on personal pensions, getting the most suitable annuity rates, stakeholder pensions, self invested personal pensions (SIPPs), small self-administered schemes and equity release.
Key pension services
- pension review
- pension consolidation
- pension transfers
- pension draw down and defined benefit pension transfer.
Our defined benefit pension transfer guide will help you better understand your scheme, including the benefits and drawbacks it may have, and will help you decide whether you want to take advice on your pension.
If you are considering a Defined Benefit Pension Transfer, please read our Self Triage Client Guide for further information. ”
Find out more about pensions in our video below.
We will review your retirement funds and consider whether you could benefit from improved charges, access to more appropriate investment strategies and more simplified administration. We are authorised and qualified to do defined benefit pension transfers.
Please get in touch with Ian Brown, our pensions specialist, to discuss defined benefit pension transfers, pension draw down and pension consolidation.
If you are considering a Defined Benefit Pension Transfer, please read our Self Triage Client Guide for further information. ”
An annuity will pay you an income until you die. Guaranteed. This is the annuity’s big advantage and makes it the starting point for all your retirement planning. We believe it’s essential for you to receive a regular income to cover
your day-to-day expenses. However, guarantees come at a cost.
The amount of income an annuity pays you depends on two things: the size of your pension fund, and how long you might live based on how old you are now. So the older you are the more income you will receive. Your annuity payments form part of your total taxable income and incur income tax.
Flexible Access Drawdown
Income drawdown has been around for a while but there were restrictions
wrapped around it. These restrictions have now gone, creating flexi-access
drawdown. You can think of flexi-access drawdown as a bit like a bank account.
You keep control of your pension fund, investing it and drawing down income
as you need it, when you need it. You have complete flexibility over how much you take out and how often you take it. Once you have drawn your 25% tax-free cash entitlement any further withdrawals form part of your total taxable income and incur income tax. The complete flexibility that flexi-access drawdown gives you is its big advantage.
Tax treatment varies according to individual circumstances and is subject to change.
Transferring out of a final salary pension is unlikely to be in the best interests of most people.
What makes us different?
Start your journey to a better financial future
You can talk to us in confidence about protecting your income and your family, residential and business mortgages, pensions, SIPPs, annuities, income drawdown, inheritance tax, wills and tax efficient investments. The first meeting is at our expense and without any obligation
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