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The Problem With Pensions!

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The idea of pensions has been known since the Babylonian era: You give capital to a money lender who would then provide you with interest on the amount in future years. In more recent times pensions evolved into Defined Benefit (DB): The employer contributes alongside the amount taken from pay up to retirement which provides you with a set income after working.  Defined Contribution (DC) is the now: Payments alongside the employer's contribution are put into an outsourced financial market fund In the hope of providing a sufficient income. Auto-enrolment is not only forcing workers in with every new role, the percentage being taken from pay including the employer's contribution is not high enough (even with the increase). Generally, most people are unsure where this money is actually being invested (underperforming mutual funds with high overall charges). *You can find this out and choose which one yourself* Drawdown (income from invested pension): Soon

A Little About Me And How I Want To Help

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I hope this can be of use to someone out there! I'm Adam a 34-year-old long term investor from the south west of England. Since my accounting and finance studies. I have been successfully saving, investing and generally managing my own money. The reason I am writing this Is that not everyone understands finance. We're not really taught anything in school, college, the university even work (pensions). I want to do something because I have started to get frustrated with the number of people in our society who are literally being let down. Be it from inadequate pensions, even appalling savings rates which we have all worked hard for. I want to show that we can all be independent with finance to a certain degree. I am not saying I expect you to directly invest your savings into sustainable securities (that's why I decided to be educated in finance). I do however believe that if there is a simplified safe way for you to be in control of you're money and generate ad