by Martin Dodd | Apr 23, 2012 | Blog
The national Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) and the Pensions Institute (PI) have recently reported that many pension savers are not shopping around for the best annuity rates and are taking the default option from the pension provider. As a consequence their...
by Martin Dodd | Feb 17, 2012 | Blog
Here are a few advantages and disadvantages of Flexible Drawdown. Advantages Maximum tax-free cash lump sum can be taken at outset. The amount of income withdrawn can be varied each year to suit your circumstances. The remainder of the fund not used to provide income...
by Martin Dodd | Dec 9, 2010 | Blog
The Treasury has, today, published a summary of the responses to the Consultation paper on removing the requirement to annuitize by age 75, together with draft legislation for further consultation, defining more clearly and with greater certainty the proposed rules. ...
by Martin Dodd | Jun 17, 2010 | Blog
Do you not like the idea of buying an annuity at retirement? Don’t want to use your pension fund at retirement? And have other income and don’t want more income and higher rates of tax? We have been using a wealth planning strategy for many years now which may be very...