Planning for your retirement

Making sure you have enough money in retirement to enable you to spend your time the way you want to, doing those things you always intended to do, is likely to be at the heart of planning for your retirement.

Too complicated to think about

People surveyed for BlackRock’s Investor Pulse survey stated that their biggest financial priority was ‘funding a comfortable retirement’. Yet many people spend more time planning their holiday than their own retirement – perhaps because planning for retirement seems too complicated to think about?

Don’t know where to start

We are all living longer, the State Pension Age is increasing and pensions legislation is ever-changing. Understandably, we want an active, comfortable retirement but often don’t know whe