Financial planning for DIY investors

Peter Temple

Pensions planning is brutal. Start at 20 and you'll need to save around £600pm to get £35,000pa. Leave it until 40 and it's around £1,100pm. But unless you're a civil servant, the alternatives aren't great.

Ceri Jones

Could Guaranteed Equity Bonds replace shares and bonds as a mainstay of financial planning? Ceri Jones investigates a product gaining respectability.

Faith Glasgow

You can't cheat death, illness and the shocking expense of children, but you can plan for them. Faith Glasgow introduces our checklist of essentials for any DIY financial planner.

Ceri Jones

From thinking you can choose when you retire to mistaking geographic variety for asset diversification, learn how to avoid the common pitfalls of financial planning.

Peter Temple

If you don't plan ahead, the government will take 40% of your
estate over £275,000. Motive enough to reduce your liability with IHT-free investing and by making gifts ahead of time.

Richard Beddard

Richard Beddard has not had much
success with advisers, but he knows a man who has.

Richard Beddard

Financial meltdown forced Freddy Crabbe to rethink his retirement.
His savings habit and gimlet eye saw him through.