Welcome to our latest edition. Inside, we look at New Year’s tax saving resolutions to make sure you are fully utilising your relevant tax planning opportunities. With the tax year end (5 April) on the horizon, taking action now may give you the opportunity to [..]
Research conducted by ABI last year highlighted that 1.6 million pension pots worth £19.4 billion are unclaimed. Although these statistics are pretty shocking, they may not come as a total surprise. Our lives have changed and for the majority, the days of [..]
Pensions are a really important part of peoples’ future. Although most employees know they should be saving for their retirement, for many it’s just not top of their agenda. And for some, it’s not something they plan to worry about until nearer the [..]
The latest phasing of state pension age (SPA) increase is now finished. On 6th October 2020, the state pension age reached 66 and unless current legislation is changed, it will remain there until 6th April 2026, at which point the next increase, to age 67, starts [..]
One of our Partners, Darren Laverty speaks to Employee Benefits about pension saving in the current environment. He highlights the importance of employers offering coaching sessions for their employees to help them better understand their financial [..]
Aegon is launching personalised video statements that give real-time information to members on demand and via communication programmes and prompt them to take actions to take control of their savings. The provider has developed the video summaries following a [..]
You may already have a pension and an ISA, but do you have a WISA? Falling pension allowances and youngers workers’ desire to get on the property ladder have led to an increasing number of employers to offer workplace ISAs or ‘WISAs’ to their staff. They [..]
Darren Laverty, Partner at Secondsight, has written a blog post in Pensions Expert discussing what makes a successful financial wellbeing strategy. It is fair to say employers have been thinking about financial wellbeing for years – even before auto-enrolment [..]
This week we’re marking Pension Awareness Day. An awareness event now in its 4th year, the initiative promotes the importance of saving for the future and engaging the UK’s workforce with their retirement saving (called Pension Awareness Day, events now run [..]
Female employees on average have less in their pension pots, and whilst this should be recognised, we firmly believe that everyone should receive high quality education in respect to their financial needs, now and in the future. Darren Laverty, Partner at [..]
Secondsight has added the Selectapension’s digital guidance tool, ‘Pension Monster’ to its online engagement and financial education portal, Mybenefitsatwork. The pension and investment software provider is currently talking to different companies, so they [..]
The research on pensions carried out by Royal London, which highlights that the medium sum saved for retirement by those aged between 30 and 40 was £14,000, makes for alarming reading. The research flags the need for that to be £660,000 – so there is – clearly [..]
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