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Portfolio critique please but be gentle!

bigchipper · 2013-09-11 12:48:26

Hi I am 55, married and in reasonable health. I aim to retire in 5 years time on a public sector final salary pension of around £20k (for which I am making additional contributions). My other half works part time and has only a small amount of deferred final salary pension provision (estimated to be worth about £3k at age…