Retirement planning is a basic requirement for anybody, but is seen as many as a real headache and as such many people do nothing.

Obviously, doing nothing is the worst move you can make, as your potential retirement fund shrinks with each passing year.

Here at CFS Financial Consultants Ltd, we can help profile the right pension for you. This means you can plan ahead with confidence, safe in the knowledge that you can put away as much as you can afford, to ensure that your retirement will be as comfortable as possible.

According to recent statistics, people are now living longer which means that any fund you build up for your retirement must be bigger than ever before.

For example, the life expectancy of females in the UK is now 80 years of age, and if you wanted to retire at age 55, this means you would need to fund for 25 years income.

Bearing in mind your main outgoings would have ceased by retirement (mortgage, dependants, any other loans), you would still need a fairly large sum to generate an income to keep your standard of living the same as it is now, particularly if annuity rates stay as low as they are today.

Funding for retirement is critical, and the longer that no provision is made, the more you will have to save over a shorter term to reach the same retirement goal.

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