Retirement Planning Resources

• Joint Life Annuities: Protecting Your Loved One's Future
  As you grow old with your partner, you tend to share more and more. In addition to possibly sharing a home, you might share a car and a number of financial products. Joint bank accounts and joint mortgages are a prominent notion amongst with many couples. However the financial offerings for loved ones do not stop there. Many people opt for joint life annuiti […]
• Why Investment Banks Stay Away From Fixed Assets
  Pretty much every planner or financial professional will tell you that the key to reaching your financial goals is to maximize the market upside and try to bypass the market downturns. So if this is the case, why haven't investment banks been focusing on implementing these indexed products within their portfolio? […]
• Why The Global Financial Crisis Does Not Count In The Balearic Islands
  Thinking about retiring abroad I have found a place that has become immune to the global financial crisis.This place has sea, sun and sand plus a real estate market that is driven by lifestyle hunters. This place is near Spain but a million miles from its real estate market it is the Balearic Islands […]
• How Do You Get A Good Pension?
  It always seems a pain when you are young and just starting work to consider a pension scheme for a time which seems a long way off. It is also a time when the personal budget is squeezed by the demands of a house purchase and the payments demanded from student loans. The harsh fact is that years ago most companies ran private pension schemes as a condition […]
• How Fixed Policy Owners Were Able to Survive the Fall of AIG
  Today, the money within the insurance sector of AIG is still protected. Not one policy owner lost a penny of money in any fixed AIG account, even when AIG needed billions of dollars of financial assistance from the federal government. […]
• A Basic Guide on QROPS
  QROPS is the short form for Qualifying Recognized Overseas Pension Scheme and provides people with the opportunity to transfer their UK pensions to destinations outside the UK. Thus, a wide range of UK's pension schemes can be transferred into QROPS. […]
• How Deregulation Gave Way to a Global Financial Collapse
  Today, Wall Street still adamantly opposes regulation; and many of the same people who helped contribute to our financial collapse on a global level are still in power. In fact, many of these individuals were able to walk away from their bankrupted companies with millions of dollars, all while many portfolios and retirement plans were completely destroyed. […]