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Phased retirement
Most people regard a pension plan as a single scheme, this does not have to be the case. Your pension plan could be constructed from a large number of individual plans.
When you have a number of pension plans you can choose to buy annuities at differing times and thus ease yourself into retirement gradually. As with other pension plans these must all be converted to annuities or alternatively secured pension by the age of 75.
So how does phased retirement work? Phased retirement is potentially suitable for people with pension funds in excess of £100,000. Say you split your pension fund into 1000 pension plans. Each of these operates as an individual pension plan and is subject to the same rules as single pension plans.
If you want to convert a quarter of your Pension fund into annuities all you need to do is to arrange for 250 of these pension plans to be converted. Bear in mind that you can also take your tax free cash allowance from each plan.
There are many reasons to use phased retirement as part of your strategy for financing your retirement, your financial adviser can provide specific examples for your circumstances. Simply complete the free, no-obligation phased retirement quote form below and one of our financial advisers will contact you.
Our financial advisers will look at the current annuities marketplace and provide comparisons specific to your needs and requirements.
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