Pension Awareness Week is back and this year it’s celebrating 10 years of making a positive difference. Now is the time to get to know your pension better than ever and prepare for the future you want. Our financial planning team Robson Laidler Wealth are on hand to guide and steer […]
Category Archives: Retirement
In this vlog we discuss retirement planning with our model couple, Andy and Sarah to ensure they don’t run out of money. Andy and Sarah are now in their late 50s – they have a joint income of £140k, they have savings in stocks and shares and investment ISAs and […]
This vlog: Planning for university and retiring sooner demonstrates the situation of our model couple Andy and Sarah, both now aged 49 and who have a 17-year old daughter who is thinking about going to university and a 13-year son who will most likely do the same. They have approached […]
In 2019 Robson Laidler Wealth wrote a blog entitled NHS Pensions – handy hints to plan your exit This has been one of our team’s most viewed blogs yet since 2019 there have been a few changes, which you should be aware of. One thing that hasn’t changed and […]
If you have a UK pension then you may need to be aware of three important changes that were announced in the recent Autumn Budget: No 1. The change to the age that you can take an income from an invested pension. We’ve been mentioning this to our clients […]
Pension Awareness Day takes place annually on September 15 with the aim to alert the nation that they need to save more for their retirement. So what do you need to be aware of exactly? Here’s some tips from Chartered Financial Planner Amanda Cowie director at RL Wealth: Pensions are […]
Whether you are a busy professional, medic or business owner, the simple answer to the question, “when should I start planning my retirement?” is – now! It’s never too early. If you organise your life now you will minimise stress for yourself and your family in future. Holiday season […]
GPs need to focus on their future financial planning just like the rest of us. Most GPs we talk to are working long hours in addition to patients with Covid, they are dealing with the fall out of long Covid, mental health issues exacerbated by the pandemic and also those […]
Financial planning – Why it’s better for your money to outlive you? When we put together a financial plan, we use a mortality of age 100 because we don’t want you to run out of money. We also use a financial planning forecasting tool to help you “see” your financial […]
Why is organising your finances good for your mental health? Mind, the mental health charity says: It’s those nagging thoughts in the middle of the night that cause us to lose sleep, cause gut busting anxiety and yes, it can become a vicious cycle leading to depression, relationship issues […]