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Archive for January, 2008

planning for retirement: pensions vs buy to let part 2

Yesterday, after a comment on ISAs versus pensions from Nick, I described one way of using a buy to let investment to fund a retirement. Today, I’m comparing that to a standard pension invested in the stock market.
recap
Yesterday I calculated that an initial investment in a buy to let property of £30,000 and a further [...]

planning for retirement: pensions vs buy to let part 1

I recently compared pensions and ISAs as investment wrappers after being inspired by a reader’s comment. In response to that post, Nick said:
It’s been suggested to me that a good option is to buy property to let over the same period I would normally be pay into a pension plan, then use that to fund [...]

spending plans for 2008

Since I let you in on how much I’m worth (alive - like many people I’m worth more dead) and how I spent my money last year, you might also be interested to see how I’m planning to spend it in 2008.
I’ll hand you over to my beautiful chart:

Just to let you know what’s in [...]

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