My first pension had a retirement age of 50, and the talk then was of the lives of leisure our generation would later lead. Many of us are still working well past 50, and most of our kids are likely to carry on into their 70s. ‘Super Savers’, however, are apparently a thing, living in penury now for the promise of a leisure, travel and choices at 40+. All very well, but life, and sometime death or divorce, have a habit of getting in the way. You never, alas, know when the best years of your life may be; so a bit of both is best, says this financial adviser.
“Sunak and Hunt accused of ‘damaging UK plc’ over NatWest boss’s exit”
Here’s the flip side. Should a business not have the right to choose whom it serves? If you as a client, or more likely potential client, rub us up the wrong way, are a declared anti-vaxxer or support the barges, can we not, as a business, say ‘Be Gone’?