How To Protect Yourself Against The Care Crisis
One of the first things which the new government announced, to the surprise of nobody, was that the previously announced reforms of the care system
October 25, 2024
Retirement Income
New Rules To Help Protect You From Financial Fraud
At Sussex Retirement Planning, we understand how vital it is to protect your hard-earned money from scams. Scammers are becoming more sophisticated, particularly in targeting
October 15, 2024
Knowing Your Onions Can Protect You From Financial Crime
One of the first recorded financial crimes was committed by one of Ancient Greece’s founding fathers, the philosopher Thales of Miletus. He cornered olive farmers
September 16, 2024
Does It Matter If Your Retirement Lasts 30 or 40 Years?
A lot of the research on retirement planning assumes a planning horizon of thirty years. Indeed, it was one of the explicit assumptions in Bill
September 6, 2024
Lessons from a micro-retirement
Christine Benz is a director of retirement planning at Morningstar in the USA. She’s been fortunate enough to be able to take sabbaticals during her
August 23, 2024
Sussex Retirement Planning’s Budget Guessing Game
It sounds like the Chancellor will be raising taxes when she announces her first budget on 31st October. However, prior to the election, she ruled
August 15, 2024
New Government Announcement Surprises Nobody!
In the least surprising of her statements since becoming the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves announced she is scrapping reforms to adult social care in England that
August 7, 2024
What’s The Point Of All Those Cashflows, Spreadsheets and Investment Recommendations?
There is a lot of focus on the “numbers” in retirement planning. And a lot of focus on the specific tools and techniques that you
July 12, 2024
What If Pension Tax Free Cash Were Removed?
There has been plenty of speculation in the media recently that the next government will remove the tax free lump sum from pensions. Readers of
July 4, 2024
What Expenditure is Essential?
In its recent Retirement Income Advice Review, the FCA referred on several occasions to “essential expenditure”; for a long time, we’ve used the same term,
June 14, 2024