Planning a successful retirement

Planning a successful retirement

With life expectancies increasing and retirement ages being pushed back, you may be asking yourself how effective your retirement planning actually is. Do you genuinely know what standard of living you will be able to enjoy when you finally stop working? These are the most common questions asked by new clients:

‘Should I put all my pensions together?’
‘Why aren’t my pension plans growing and am I paying in enough?’
‘I’ve not heard from my pension adviser in years, can you help me?’
‘I’ve got a lot of money in my pension, should I have a Self Invested Personal Pension?’
‘Should I buy an annuity or take income drawdown? What’s the difference?’

Despite extensive rule changes in 2006 to ‘simplify’ pensions, pension rules have got more complex over the past few years.

‘Pension Freedom’, introduced in April 2015 has meant clients taking even greater care with their ‘at retirement’ decisions. We can help.

We’ve been able to explain to many clients why their pension scheme is or isn’t working or growing, the correct level to pay in, the pros and cons of consolidating several pensions.

Create Wealth Management has built a reputation on understanding the needs of individuals so that we can help you to make an informed decision about how best to plan, invest and ultimately take your pension benefits at retirement.

What Our Clients Think

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As the Managing Partner running an increasingly busy consultancy that helps others market and maximise the value of their own businesses, my own finances often took a back seat! From a recommendation, I turned to Stephen and the team at Create Wealth several years ago and have not been disappointed. The highly professional attention I enjoy means I can get on with my work knowing my finances are on track. Stephen ensures we review my situation and portfolio regularly and is always flexible to fit in with my busy schedule. He can now count amongst his clients, several people I have been more...

Noel A. Baden-Thomas, Managing Partner of Phoenix Business Sales & Consultancy, York

I have known Stephen for many years and have always valued his time and guidance when helping me with my financial planning, investment planning and advice. I am someone who always seems to be on his way to a meeting or to catch a plane. Stephen and the team at Create Wealth Management have always been able to accommodate me and have taken time to fully understand my personal needs and objectives whilst always explaining complex topics in terms I understand. In tailoring their service for me, they help me look after the most important things to me; my family’s enjoyment of life, the ability...

Philip Wagstaff, Sunningdale

Stephen understands our needs and listens carefully to our preferences. He is reassuring about complicated procedures. He never tries to push a product or influence us beyond advice.

Mr & Mrs J Fisher, Glamorgan

We sold our business 3 years ago and after paying off several debts we had a financial pot which we were keen to invest for the future as we were still relatively young and needed our money to work for us. We spoke to several Financial Advisers who were extremely pushy in their approach and did not fill us with the greatest confidence. We met Stephen by chance through a mutual friend and immediately struck up a rapport. It was refreshing to talk to someone in the sector who let us do the talking about what we wanted. Once we had established we would like to work together he provided us with...

Kim & Chris, Abergavenny

We met Stephen before selling our company and became clients. Stephen has always set aside time for myself and my wife to review our options on investments. We never feel rushed into decisions. His advice over the last two and a half years has proven to be very beneficial to us. Advice in this field can be very daunting to the layman, but Stephen is prepared to bring it to our level with diagrams and sketches to explain it fully. We have an ongoing agreement for getting advice from Stephen, through both good and bad times with the markets. We are still extremely happy with the advice that w...

Malcolm & Lesley Boundy, Melksham

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