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a retirement calculator for you

I revisited my retirement plan the other day. I’ve got a really geeky spreadsheet that I can play with to work out whether I’d be on track to retire under different scenarios. Anyway, I realised that I’d forgotten to include my stocks and shares ISA into the mix, even though I plan to use that [...]

why retirement planning is important

I was catching up on my reader when I noticed this great post from bluntmoney about how working until you die is not a good retirement plan. She’s right, working until you die doesn’t sound like fun, but what would be worse is needing to work and being unable to due to ill health or [...]

do you think about retirement?

I’m in my late twenties, so it’s about 40 years until I hit state retirement age, and it’s more than 25 years until I reach the age at which I can withdraw any of my pensions. I don’t often think about what retirement might be like, or whether I’ll be able to afford it.
I do [...]

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