by The Investor | Oct 14, 2025 | Planning for retirement
Why it’s important If you’re approaching retirement with spare cash each month — or a lump sum to invest — one of the biggest dilemmas is:👉 Should you clear your mortgage early or boost your pension? Both can save or make you serious money, but in very different...
by The Investor | Oct 14, 2025 | Planning for retirement
Why it’s important Your State Pension is the bedrock of retirement income in the UK — guaranteed for life, inflation-linked, and paid every four weeks.Yet thousands of people are missing out on hundreds of pounds a year because they have gaps in their National...
by The Investor | Oct 14, 2025 | Retirement
Why it’s important Your workplace pension is one of the few places where you can get free money — legally, instantly, and risk-free.For every pound you put in, your employer and the government top it up. Yet millions of people still don’t take full advantage, often...
by The Investor | Oct 14, 2025 | Retirement
Why it’s important If you’re serious about building financial freedom, two tools dominate the UK savings landscape: pensions and ISAs.Both grow your money tax-efficiently, both can fund retirement — yet they work in opposite ways.Getting this choice right can mean...
by The Investor | Oct 10, 2025 | Weekly Review
The week in 60 seconds Tariff shock → risk-off Friday. Markets sold off after a threat of steep new U.S. tariffs on China; the move hit tech, trade-sensitive names and small banks, and flipped the weekly tone negative. Oil down, gold up. Brent fell to multi-month lows...
