What might a post-growth economy mean for small business owners’ pension planning? The path to post-growth pensions report from the Arketa Institute argues that traditional retirement investing—especially market-dependent, growth-oriented pension systems—rests on fragile assumptions given the climate & nature crisis we find ourselves in. For small business owners and their advisers, this has significant practical […]
Category Archives: Pensions
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Dec
Dec
Which is better: Property or Pension? Often, when talking about tax planning and saving for the future, clients have spoken to me about investing in a buy-to-let property. For many, this type of investment seems to be something ‘everyone is doing’, and they are worried about missing a potentially lucrative boat. However, there are a […]
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Dec
Dec
Pensions Are Sexy! Pensions can save the world but only if they are invested in the right things. How do you tell if your pension is invested to save the world or destroy it? We have all heard of the importance of checking your pension to see if it is invested in fossil fuels or […]
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Nov
What is a Pension? Often, when we are looking at clients’ plans for the future, we start talking about planning for later life, and one of the most obvious financial ways to plan for later life is to use pension savings. But what is a pension? A pension is a retirement savings plan that provides […]