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The final year before retirement is when a lifetime of saving turns into a set of real decisions — some of which, once made, cannot be unmade. Sorted early, they set up a comfortable and confident retirement. Left to the last minute, they get rushed. If you plan to finish work within the next twelve months, here are the five …
Today is National Financial Awareness Day — an annual prompt, held each 14 August, to stop and take an honest look at your money. Most of the advice you will see today is about the everyday: check your balance, cancel the subscription you forgot about, shop around on your energy bill. All sensible, and all worth doing. But there is …
Market Insight | 22 July 2026 Inflation Eases to 2.6% — What It Really Means for Your Retirement Good news on paper — but the road to a comfortable retirement still needs careful navigation. This morning brought a welcome dose of good news. The Office for National Statistics confirmed that UK Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation fell to 2.6% in …
Millions of people are at risk of missing out on retirement savings because they have lost track of their pension pots, Standard Life has warned. Research from the company found a quarter of UK adults do not know who their current pension provider is. The same amount were also unaware that moving jobs could result in multiple pension pots. While consolidation could …
Applications could take 14 fewer days to process Legal & General (L&G) has launched a digital application process for annuity applications which it says could trim a fortnight off the time it takes an average case to complete. The provider said it had launched the digital process with a select number of firms and would roll it out in the …
The provider exited the annuity market in 2017 but is now selling a fixed-term product to advisers. M&G has re-entered the annuity market eight years after it stopped selling the retirement products, Citywire can reveal. The provider is launching a fixed-term annuity term product (between five to 15 years) for advisers’ clients, with a minimum lump-sum investment of £10,000. The launch …
