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Re: Retirement Living Standards
I'm not too sure about that 9% - it seems very low. Mr S and I were both brought up in what would be, in today's terms, abject poverty. We then had to leave school at 15 because our parents…3 -
Re: Retirement Living Standards
Minimum, comfortable, luxury might be more suitable, I dont’ know There was a similar type Which report ( which seems not to have been updated recently) and they used those descriptions I think, cert…1 -
Re: Retirement Living Standards
Similarly if a couple have had well paid jobs, bought a home, have two cars, have weekends away, holidays abroad, decent meals out, a busy social life and they expect that to continue they need more.…1 -
Re: Rate my SIPP - ITV high conviction
Brief SIPP update as I recently reinvested my May ITV 3.3p final dividend into my pension as usual to keep the compounding engine running. SIPP holding now stands at 1,215,785 shares Implied full yea…6 -
Re: Retirement Living Standards
ah - that took me a second to decode. so its assuming this is retiring at normal state pension age, and the couple values are per person income and savings needs? almost not bad. Although the absolut…1 -
Re: Retirement Living Standards
Previous years the estimated pot sizes were considerably on the low side, perhaps with the recovery in annuity rates they are now more realistic?1 -
Re: Retirement Living Standards
Don't wait until just before retirement it's a really useful metric for budgeting and saving. It was early in my investing for financial independence that I kept a couple of years of detail…1 -
Re: Court claim form - Gateway House
Everything is relevant to your case. We know what we are doing. Obviously they can (under court discretion) have up to 8% interest if a judge lets them at a hearing but that never happens and the poi…1 -
Re: Retirement Living Standards
if you look at the personas used for the data they tilt lower than that - one or two 75th percentile income people but most are median earners or lower. Which suggests that there are a lot of people …1 -
Re: Retirement Living Standards
Typically they are likely renting by necessity rather than choice and this will be aggravated by low earnings pre retirement and miserable private pension provision in retirement. Pensioners who rent…4
