#pensions
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Labour fears low-key budget won't satisfy voters
Labour insiders warn 'low-key' budget risks looking weak as voters demand tangible change.
the Guardian · 1m

EU taxes AI workers to fund pensions
EU must tax AI profits to keep funding pensions as jobs vanish.
EUobserver · 1m

Self-employed pay into SIPP for pensions
Self-employed can save tax-efficiently with SIPP pensions despite income instability.
MoneyWeek · 1m

Retirement Savings Anxiety
63% of UK adults fear running out of retirement money.
MoneyWeek · 1m

Why your pension won't follow your will
Pensions bypass your will entirely. Here's what you need to do instead to ensure your family gets the money.
MoneyWeek · 2m

Don't act on Budget pension rumours
Two years of wrong predictions about tax-free pension cuts have cost savers real money they can't get back.
MoneyWeek · 3m

State pension will soon exceed tax-free threshold
The state pension is about to breach the personal allowance for the first time, but the government says you won't have to pay tax on it.
MoneyWeek · 1m

Families lose £1 billion to inheritance tax on late gifts
Over 5,000 estates paid tax on gifts made too close to death, with the seven-year rule catching many families out.
MoneyWeek · 2m

Chicago finally pried open the parking meter deal
Alderpersons cut a side deal with a New York buyer and won back money Chicago was told it could never get.
Chicago Sun-Times · 3m

South Korea got old fast. Here's what broke
South Korea aged into a super-aged society in 24 years, and the rest of the world gets to watch what happens next.
The Conversation · 3m

The SIPP fees quietly eating your pension
A fraction of a percent in platform charges, plus tax relief nobody claims, can cost a saver six figures over 30 years.
MoneyWeek · 2m

MoneyWeek's free trial, and what it costs after
Six free issues, two price tiers, and a refund promise: what MoneyWeek's subscription offer actually commits you to.
MoneyWeek · 1m

The retirement tax trap nobody planned for
Frozen thresholds are quietly pulling over a million pensioners into 40% tax and beyond, and there are ways out.
MoneyWeek · 2m
$400,000 Now or $2,000 a Month for Life?
A 60-year-old runs the math on a pension buyout, and the answer hinges on one number nobody knows.
Yahoo Finance · 2m

Buying an annuity in slices: insurance, not a better deal
Staging an annuity spreads a risk nobody can forecast, but the only UK model of it pays a fifth less for a decade to hand back 2.1%.
MoneyWeek · 2m