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Six ways to get your retirement plan on track
15th October 2026This is the fourth and final Insight in our Rough Guide to Retirement. In the first three Insights, we covered: If you’ve not read those earlier Insights, start there. In this Insight, we’ll assume you’re following this series and have now drawn up a picture of your future income slices. Perhaps you’ve been pleasantly surprised…
How to plan your retirement income on one sheet of paper
15th October 2026
How to plan your retirement income on one sheet of paper
15th October 2026This is the third Insight in our four-part ‘Rough Guide to Retirement’. If you’ve not read the first two parts, start there. Alternatively, if you’re following this series closely — to learn how to sketch out your own retirement income picture — you’ll be making good progress by now. By the end of Insight #2,…
How much retirement income is enough?
15th October 2026
How much retirement income is enough?
15th October 2026This is the second of four Insights in our ‘Rough Guide to Retirement’. In the first Insight, we looked at why having a rough plan beats having no plan or relying on ‘Rule of Thumb’ shortcuts, which can mislead you and discourage you from saving at all. Start there if you’ve not read that first…
The rough guide to retirement
15th October 2026
The rough guide to retirement
15th October 2026It’s not easy to design a sound plan to have enough money to stop working (or slow down) in the future. And you should be wary of anyone who tells you it is. As with most complex life challenges, many will tell you to avoid the hard work and instead rely on their simple, common-sense…
Four retirement planning rules of thumb that mislead you
15th October 2026
Four retirement planning rules of thumb that mislead you
15th October 2026If you ask ten people how they plan to have enough money to stop or slow down from work, you’ll probably get several blank stares and a few tentative ‘Rules of Thumb’—which don’t actually work! How many people know whether they’ll have enough? The blank stares are well documented. When the Department for Work and…
Can you help (spread betting) Joe?
22nd August 2026
Can you help (spread betting) Joe?
22nd August 2026Written for wannabe ‘day traders’ worldwide – whose lives are destroyed by spread betting and other gambling activity. This Insight aims to help anyone (like our fictional character Joe, here) to understand the real and horrendous risks of spread betting before it’s too late. Please share with your friends. How can this still be happening?
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