Mark Soper – RetireEasy In his speech last night, Sir Mervyn King stated that the silver lining of the global slowdown was falling inflation -CPI is now down to 3% from 5% a year ago. He went on to announce a huge two-pronged capital injection for the banks.

Richard Collinson – RetireEasy For anyone interested in classic cars, the expectation has always been that the hobby of owning one will be time-consuming, fraught with problems – and a money pit. Although some cars have been appreciating in value for many years, most cost more to run, maintain and refurbish than they could ever […]

Mark Soper – RetireEasy The Pensions Advisory Service has this month published its detailed guidance on taking small pension pots as a lump sum. Sometimes it is just inconceivable how the Treasury and HMRC can get things so wrong – you would think from the complexity of this document that every potential retiree out there […]

Chris Collinson-RetireEasy I am sure we have all heard the current expression “the wettest drought on record”. Certainly in the Midlands British Waterways have temporarily lifted some of the restrications as we, apparently, have “too much water in the canals”!

Mark Soper – RetireEasy We learnt last week that the Pensions Regulator is relaxing the accounting rules for Company Pension Schemes to help them through the economic downturn. The Regulator blamed much of the crisis on low gilt yields which have been directly depressed as a result of the Government’s quantitative easing (QE) programme. The […]

Mark Soper – RetireEasy As the UK officially enters a double-dip recession what actions can retirees take to help mitigate the financial impact? Firstly, we recommend that you thoroughly review where you spend your money. Check out if you can save on your utility, phone and broadband tariffs, bargain hunt for food, clothes, birthday gifts […]

Mark Soper – RetireEasy The Retireeasy LifePlan is truly unique and original and we are delighted that Which? Money has reviewed it and liked it and this follows great accolades from Investors Chronicle.  A few copy-cats are moving in so we would just like all our users and friends out there to know that there […]

Mark Soper – RetireEasy Following a report to the FSA by PWC, the City regulator is set to instruct pension providers to reduce their projection rates.

Mark Soper – RetireEasy It was announced today that the Government’s CPI measure of inflation increased by 3.5% in March, approaching double the Bank of England’s target of 2.0%. Food and clothes were cited as the main culprits, so bad news for retirees.

Richard Collinson – RetireEasy What would you consider to be a reasonable growth rate for you Pension Plan (that’s Yield + the increase in share prices) for a reasonably conservative and well spread portfolio, over the long term.