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- I spend most of my time helping people to make the transition into retirement and get their pension benefit decisions right, so let’s look at some examples which use all of the three main options.
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Very informative, could do with dialling down the sums to more humble amounts . And some explanation re the typical funds used in drawdown and how the payments are made eg selling units etc
Simple explanation, content rich, affable presentation. 10/10
Great video. I hadn't realised it was all so complicated!! Better wrap my head around this...
It can be, Nicola, but for most of us it's simple enough. The examples were designed to provide options for complexity! Seek advice if you're not sure...
Excellent content. Thanks Pete
Wow. Thank you! Great video. Love the examples.
Thanks Justyn - appreciate the feedback
Thank you for this excellent video! Lots to think about and plan for.
Glad it was helpful, Christine!
Great Video Pete, I'm glad that you have dissected this in so much detail. How lucky we are to have this wealth of free information at our fingertips. I wish I had seen this type of content 20 years ago !
Glad it’s helpful now, Stuart!
Great video, thank you
Thanks, Pete, that was great!
Glad it was helpful, Dmitry - thanks for watching...
Another great video, just got to try and mold it to my situation, 67 this year, and just wondering when to stop work and this helps, thanks.
That's the challenge, right?! Seek advice if you're not sure...
Great video, I've seen many examples around the LTA but they never explained it in such a clear way thank you.
Thanks Roberto - glad it all made sense!
This was very useful and informative, food for thought for myself.
Glad it was helpful, Ken! Thanks for watching…
Brilliant many thanks and easy for me to understand
You are welcome!
Thank you. Very clear explanations
Thank you Sharon - glad it was useful!
Superb and very clearly communicated as always, thank you
Thank you kindly, Nick!
Great video Pete, very informative
Thanks 👍
Really excellent, thank you !
You are welcome, Rod!
Great video and great explanation of the different scenarios. I found this really useful as I’m at the stage where I’m trying to understand and plan for my retirement with an RS6😮
Fantastic video. Excellent examples and great food for thought for myself. Off to run my numbers again on my retirement planner spreadsheet.
Really glad it was helpful, David - thanks for watching!
Thanks Pete, I can see why you have job. Like you always say if you only get advice once it makes sense to do it when making plans for retiring. Hats off for putting that deck together!
Cheers bud - I appreciate you!
Wow Pete, having had my hour with PensionWise and having watched abut 200 YouTubre videos on retirement, SIPPs, ISAs etc and having read "Beyond the 4% rule" I thought I had grasped pretty much everything and then you produce this video...
This is the first time I have heard about a temporary annuity.
Fortunately for us, our income comes from a few rental properties and will be supplemented by our state pensions. We can get tax-free cash by re-mortgaging (and thereby reducing IHT) or we can sell a property pay out a lot of Capital Gains Tax to acquire other lump sums (the less fun way of reducing inheritance tax).
Your video has confirmed to me that our strange plan of continuing to grow the pension without touching it before age 75 seems right for us.
I'm delighted it was helpful, Mike - thanks for commenting and watching!
Hi Mike
I hope you don't mind me asking, but how did your hour with PensionWise go?
I'm in my 50's, and consuming lots of videos like this. I wonder if PW is going to be aimed at people with zero knowledge, or if it will be worthwhile?
How did you find it?
Pete, proper job, thanks.
You're welcome, Robert - thank you for watching!
Brilliant thank you very informative.
Glad it was helpful, Kevin - thanks for watching!
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Really really great video.
Cheers Daniel - glad you enjoyed it!
Love this geezers videos. I'm only 40 but it's good to be prepared
Good to have you here!
Fantastic slides and info really breaking it down as simply as possible very interesting, or am I just a bit sad lol
Whoa! This is exactly the sort of detailed content I’ve been looking for - perfect, thank you!
You’re welcome, Richard. I’m glad it hit the spot!
Amazing slide pack and video, thanks! Brilliantly useful examples (okay some of the numbers were huge but very useful to make points which wouldn’t have been possible otherwise) and appreciated your choice of showcasing a spectrum of relationship set ups :)
Thanks Becky - glad it was useful!
Pete, another great video thanks! So many variables around risk attitude, LTA and income tax liability, also the piece on IHT. Keep the Videos coming.
Great examples and an episode wouldn't be complete without the mention of a campervan :)
I know, right?! I really should think of something more original...
An amazing video - so much detail. Really well presented - thanks a lot Pete!
Ah, glad it was helpful Simon - thank you!
Great video. Very clearly explained. Thanks! It takes a while to get your head around this stuff when you've ignored it for the first sixty years of your life!
It really does - it's why I have a job! Thanks for watching, Allsystemsaredown
Well said!
Many of us wishing we could go back in time and manage our finances better… 😄
Green job Peter
Belting video Pete. At 38 and just getting finances together for retirement this really helps me visualise what I am working towards. Keep up the good work, many thanks for all your content
Thank you so much - glad it was helpful!
I'm 37 and doing exactly the same! Fully agreed - this clear and visual approach really helps make it easier to plan.
Good show
Thank you!
As with the previous example on FAD and UFPLS explainations this was FABULOUS with a capital F !!! ...well done better than my own financial advisors explaination which was no where near as good as yours
Thanks Tim. All I can say is that there’s 25 years of experience and practice going into these explanations!
Another useful video thank you. Have you done anything on options when a pension fund doesn’t offer flexible drawdown? Thanks.
Hi Julia, sorry, I'm not Pete but just wanted to help. If your current pension provider doesn't offer flexible drawdown then you should be able to transfer it to one that does. At the accumulation stage, think of your pension provider as basically a bank account with benefits - once you have your pension pot, you don't need to stay with them through drawdown. You can take your pot and deposit it with whoever is offering the best deal for you. You can do this at any point before retirement with the more modern pension providers like Fidelity or Hargreaves Lansdown, but if you have an older pension with Zurich or someone like that, you may have to wait until your selected retirement age before you can transfer it penalty free. Either way though, you're not stuck with your current provider.
Great answer, Richard - thanks for jumping in. Nothing I'd add there, Julia - pensions freedoms are a great thing; the pensions world is your oyster!
Great video as ever. Can you do more examples please? Thanks
Thanks Andy. Any specific examples you’d like to see?
These examples have ridiculously high incomes, savings and pensions....do more of these but with realistic finances!
I understand, but in order to illustrate the flexibility of the various options, and particularly the Lifetime Allowance issues, I need to use larger figures. The principles apply universally though, so you can just plug your own figures in...
What I was just thinking...how many people have this much pension / savings? Not many I think.
We would never be able to retire !
Dont think they do im 51 with a 700k pot only in the last year have i had to worry about 40% tax
@@mwscuba Good effort! You must have been stuffing money away for a few years. I have around £500k and I’m 53 and been a higher rate tax payer for last 10 years. Guess I should have saved harder.
Hi Pete, recently joined your subscription as I am getting to that age. 60 April. Whilst I know you can’t recommend any advisors I am wondering is there a list of financial planners you know of in the Widnes (Cheshire) area? Like your presentation skills so please keep it up. Feel you are explaining at an acceptable pitch for the audience. 👍🏻
Thanks Tommy. Nearest I can get to you is Altrincham. Check out Smart Financial Planning: smartfinancial.co.uk/
Thanks Pete - great video as always. The worked examples really help to understand the options and choices available. Don't worry about how long your videos are - I find they fly past due to the quality of the content and your presentation style.
Thanks you Mike - really appreciate that! 🙏🏻👍🏻
Another excellent video, Pete. The graphics made everything so clear.
I’m glad, Martin - thanks for watching!
Smashing stuff Pete. Very well explained and that takes a lot of work.
Cheers Sandy - appreciate the kind words!
Thanks, I learn something every time I catch one of your Presentations.
I believe I have an old DB Final Salary Pension, paid in for 16 years, since 1989. Have no idea of value or process, I learnt a bit today though.
Time to trace it now..... As Salary was lower in 2005, I don't expect it is worth much.
They are normally index linked, though sometimes have an annual cap once deferred (e.g. 2.5%, 5%). It might not be too bad as that will have missed most of the high inflation years, until this year...
I reckon you might be surprised, Sue - as John says, the indexing will have added quite a bit over that time...
You will probably be pleasantly surprised. I have a dB pension I only paid into for 8 years in the 90s and it is forecast to pay me 12k a year when I'm 67 if I don't take tax free cash
Pete, you’re a legend. Thanks so much for all your videos!
You’re very welcome, Alister - thank you for saying thank you!
No better way to prepare for retirement than buying, holding and buying more dividend stocks. You will thank yourself you did!
Fact. It's interesting to see dividends like SAFT, PSX, NKSH and PM doing well after all the doomsday analyses from naysayers
Thanks very good video. My situation is similar to the last example with DB scheme, but I have a range of options which use up different amounts of LA. Are you available for financial advice?
Potentially, though it would be my firm rather than me personally as I’m am now coaching and supervising my advisers rather than being too hands-on.
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Hi Pete, thanks for all your great information. I'm still trawling through your 9 years plus of videos and finding the gems.😁My question is - From your examples today it seems like even a single person is looking at around a half a million pound pension pot to retire around age 60. I've been crunching our numbers for a few months now and assuming a few things, I don't think we need much more than half of that as a couple. Am I being really naive or am I missing something ?
The assumptions are
1. That thinking about the slow go years and the no go years , by the time we are both at retirement age our state pension and lgps/ teacher pension will suffice.
2. As we are already saving about 500 a month of our joint income (and we are happily holiday and doing what we want to do currently ) then we won't need anymore than our current income and can even reduce by a couple of thousand.
3. As we are happy to "die with zero" ( fab book btw and worth a read) then we don't need our pot to keep growing and just need it to cover the period from retirement to state pension age. Obviously this is taking into account all the ways we are going to be taxed on everything 🙄. I hope this makes sense and I'd love your thoughts on this. I'd also love you to do some examples from us "poorer"😂 individuals who still dream of retiring in the sunshine 😂.
Hi Keely - all sounds like you've thought things through very well. Investments and pension pots are there to bridge the gap between income and outgoings, and how much you need is entirely dependent on the size of that gap, and the other factors you mention. Well done, keep going and good luck!
I need to watch this great video a few more times to get it fully.
In the meantime, I am confused by the £40,000 vs £32,000. Am I right in thinking that Tony wants £32,000 after tax as income for spending? So does he receive £40,000 from the drawdown and he pays £8,000 income tax OR does he receive £32,000 from drawdown and the drawdown pays the income tax of £8,000? I suspect the former, but want to get this straight in my head!
Thanks in advance for helping!
Pete that was brilliant. I retire soon with significant transfered pension pot which should be a simple draw down for me. But your show has been great for demonstrating options. Thanks.
Glad it was helpful John! Thanks for watching...
Imagine paying over £100k LTA charge, only for the government to remove the LTA altogether soon afterwards. Being risk adverse often introduces more risk.
I’m leaning towards UFPLS. I’ve a good DB pension which I started receiving at 42 which is due to increase in a few years time .
Hope the examples were helpful, Alan...
@@MeaningfulMoney thanks Pete I never knew about temporary Annuity’s or UFPLS till i watched your very informative channel.
Very good video. I watch it as if the rules are going to be the same in 45 years time 🙃
Probably not, but maybe I'll still be shooting CZcams videos then...!
£16760 a year from pension completelly tax free. That is just amazing. Imagine how powerfull this is if combined with ISA withdrawals.
Properly powerful stuff - tax breaks are powerful and should be maximised!
Please consider a show on how ifas are paid, it's y bit of a black box and I am hesitant to engage ifa
Could you update these example now that LTA is abolished,Pls?
That is a really helpful video. I just have two questions of a very practical nature. When you have a SIPP with on online platform and you crystallise, do you get given a separate account on the online platform with those funds inside? And do you have to contact your other pension providers to tell them you have crystallised your SIPP or is it completely separate from those other pots?
Good questions, Mark. Yes, you'll generally have a separate drawdown account on a platform to keep things tidy. It can get more complex if you have a full SIPP with third-party investments, but for most of us mortals with simple platform pensions, it's straightforward enough.
No you don't need to let the other pension providers know if you have crystallised elsewhere. You will normally have to fill in a questionnaire before your crystallise though, so that's where you tell them what percentage of the LTA you've used elsewhere
@@MeaningfulMoney Hi Pete, I am looking at this very issue myself as I’d like to juggle my SIPP content to keep the bulk of the cash and lower growth funds in the uncrystallised (I’m already over the LTA) and the higher growth funds in the crystallised and take their growth as income, to minimise LTA pain).
Hargreaves Lansdown have separate pots for drawdown and uncrystallised, but Interactive Investor do not and neither do AJ Bell. Problem is that HL fees are really high and they charge separately on both pots so their fees get really high, more than offsetting the LTA advantages made possible by the account separation. II & AJB just use simple averaging to work out your LTA penalty at 75 with a part crystallised SIPP.
Extremely helpful and answers the question that I had on whether investment growth affects the LTA. I found it easy to understand your examples and found them of great benefit.
I’m glad, Phil - thank you 🙏🏻👍🏻
Thanks Pete, really interesting. I was one of the people who requested more info after your earlier You Tube video. I know you can’t answer everyone’s questions, but I agree with some of the other comments that the LTA won’t affect a lot of people (inc me!). I am still trying to work out if FAD or UFPLS works better, especially if you can set up regular UFPLS withdrawals 🤔
Also, in the graphics, when you move from the uncrystallised to the crystallised pots, and these both remain invested, are they two separate pots? Or are they treated as one investment by the platform provider?
Thanks as always Pete
Hi Celia - Obviously I can only put in so many examples. but maybe I'll add a video with pots for more ordinary folks!
To your second question, most platforms will separate out pre- and post-crystallised pensions into separate accounts.
So if you want a regular withdrawal for income, is Flexi Access the better option?
Very good video and some good examples chosen - a combination of which is not too dissimilar to the position I am in. Thanks.
Glad it was useful, Andrew - thanks for watching and commenting!
Great video. I have a couple of questions. What are the typical costs of managing pensions once you hit retirement and are there more fee efficient ways to manage drawdowns? I assume the pension companies moving money into drawdown and paying tax on your behalf are not doing it free of charge. In the last example, is there no additional tax rate to pay on the funds over the lifetime allowance? I thought it worked out to 55%, or did buying the annuity alleviate the additional tax charge. Thanks!
Costs for running a drawdown plan are much the same as running a pre-crystallisation pension, except s9me providers charge an annual fee of (say) £120 a year or something similar. If the scheme pays the LTA charge and you take the excess as income, not a lump sum, the LTA charge is 25%, but then you pay income tax on the income, which roughly evens it up if you’re a higher rate taxpayer.
@@MeaningfulMoney Ah right, understood, thanks!
Pete, thank you for the brilliant video with patient explanations. Please could you do some more examples, especially around the age 75-evaluation and inheritance tax liability?
Also, I’m nowhere near the LTA but I thought the tax on anything above was 55% not 25%?
More videos around the pension theme please 🙏
If you draw it out as a lump sum its 55%. If you leave it in and take it as drawdown its 25% and then your income tax rate. Which works out at 40% total at basic rate and 55% total at higher rate income tax.
If taken out as a lump sum it's 55%, but if it stays in the pension fund subsequently to be drawn as income, it's a 25% LTA charge, then income tax when you draw
@@johnkennet3036 @meaningfulmoney Thank you, John and Pete
Hi Pete, can the lifetime allowance charge always be paid by the scheme and the balance transferred or would this ever need to come of the tax free amount? Likewise if taken as cash and 55% tax applies?
Are you talking about DB pensions, Gus? If so, then you’d need to check with the specific scheme you have in mind. Also, some older less flexible DC plans may not have the facility to pay the LTA charge.
@@MeaningfulMoney I was thinking about this if I was to transfer out of a DB scheme.
Hadn’t heard of temporary annuities before. This has earned my subscription. Look forward to further examples.
Can be useful in the right hands, Richard - glad to have you with us!
Really good examples Pete. I think it's so important to have this information to hand as it gives us all options to consider when it gets to our turn!!
Glad it was helpful, Matt!
would the funds in pre-retirement and drawdown, be invested differently? I mean, would the pre-retirement fund earn more interest that the drawdown fund?
I talked to a fund management company last week, they said they'd never heard of UFPLS.
A fund management company wouldn’t necessarily have heard of it, even though UFPLS has been a thing since 2015! It’s not their area at all.
Yes, I think you should invest differently when drawing down versus when you’re accumulating. Here’s the ultimate guide: czcams.com/video/wL87j34VCEk/video.html
Oh no! When did Joy leave Tony? I always thought Tina and Joy were more than just friends, but Tony couldn't see it. 😉
Otherwise a great video. Thanks.
Hahhahahaha! The complex lives of my examples.
Wonderful video, Pete! Great information and presentation as always.
ok can you as a uk resident use QROPS to help with the LTA ? and guessing anytime you take taxable income from your pension the " only allowed to pay in 4K rule " kicks in
Transferring to a QROPS is a benefit crystallisation event, and would trigger an LTA test at that point. After that, I get a little hazy - offshore pensions are really not my thing!
To your other question - yes, once you take any taxable income from a pension (even income that falls within your personal allowance and hence is taxed at 0%) you are subject to the £4K Money Purchase Annual Allowance
How many times can I press thumbs up?! Thank you Pete. Really appreciate you and what you do for us. I'll definately be giving Jacksons a call in around 18 months to get onto your waiting list :-)
You're a star, Richard - so glad it was helpful!
12:53 I didn't think one could still invest money in the drawdown pot. I'm having trouble understanding the difference between UFPLS and moving into drawdown.
Hi Jon - yes, drawdown plans are invested just like an uncrystallised pension (one where you haven’t taken benefits). Have you watched this video: czcams.com/video/NOIivz8_QuA/video.html
@@MeaningfulMoney I have thanks, I'll watch it again to make sure I didn't miss anything.
Any real world examples at all?
Great info. It would be also worth to mention that in case of UFPLS first taxable pension withdrawal, one might have to pay emergency tax.
Yep, that’s true…
If you have a local gov DB scheme, can you use UFPLS?
No, sorry. UFPLS is only for DC schemes
@@MeaningfulMoney thanks, just wondered if I could take from 55 using that method! And top up from Investment ISA until 67.
Does it mean that once you crystallise some of your pension it doesn’t grow interest anymore? If so, then you should crystallise the smallest possible amount each year right? And repeat the process each year
Doesn’t mean that at all. If you crystallise a pension fund into drawdown, it remains invested and you get all the investment options available to you as before the crystallisation
@@MeaningfulMoney thanks a lot for all your answers to my questions, appreciate it
For the effort producing the slides 😊
Can you give advice on what to do if you want to return to the EU to retire and you have a fair amount of money coming from the sale of a UK home?
Sorry, @kyaume21 - not really my forté
@@MeaningfulMoney Fair enough. Any hint on where to go for advice?
I'm lucky enough to be on a Final Salary scheme (Direct Benefit)..projections show it'll give me around £32k a year. I have no idea if this is considered enough these days! are there ways of maximising a Final Salary option?...thank you!
Some DB schemes allow you to buy extra DB income, though not many. Look up if you have that option and if the cost is worth it. Otherwise SIPP it. Only you can decide what is enough. £32K is around the UK median full time employment earnings so that's a pretty good baseline. Remember that DB and state pension are taxable income so you will be paying 20% tax above the personal allowance (though no National Insurance).
@PompeyMatt17 - ultimate, whether £32k per year is 'enough' comes down to your lifestyle and spending patterns, but as @John Kennet says, it's certainly a tidy outcome. You may be able to add AVCs on the side, but these are DC, not DB , though they could be subsidised by the company to the tune of very low fees. Also, in some cases AVCs can be linked to the main scheme and provide a pot from which to draw the tax-free cash. You'll need to speak to the pensions department, I reckon
Please do one on tax returns once retired 😔
They're not much different from when you're working. Harold. If you have a specific questions, send it to hello@meaningfulmoney.tv and I'll do my best to answer...
Hi Pete, thanks for this, very informative as always. Couple of questions if I may - is it more tax efficient to use pension money ahead of any invested in ISA's, or perhaps one could do a mixture of both? Also would you recommend continuing to save into ISA's through retirement with un-taxed pension withdrawals, assuming there's some cash left over each month? So many ways of approaching this it makes my head spin!
Hi Carl. By ‘use’ I presume you mean draw down. In which case, ISAs are likely to be more tax-efficient unless you have unused personal allowance.
Not sure why you’d continue to save in retirement when there’s fun to be had with that unused income! But each to their own. Everyone’s situation is unique, which is why I have a job trying to apply these rules to individual circumstances!
@@MeaningfulMoney Great thank you, really enjoy watching your content. I was figuring if I took a fixed salary with pension drawdown then I'd want to keep invested whatever is leftover...but I guess I could just keep it in the bank and take less from my pension the following year...must remember to keep things simple
Interesting video, could we have more realistic examples, only the lucky few will have huge pension pots.
Lookup Karen Marie Emma, she's a certified fiduciary.
Pete can you cover the way that it is possible to take £20K tax free please. where you crystalise £30K take £7.5K tax free and then your personal allowance of £12.5K.
You’d need to do this via Drawdown. Crystallise £30k. Take £7.5k tax-free cash. Put the £22.5k in a drawdown account and take £12,570 out of it, leaving £9,930 invested the drawdown account.
Jane's additional £10k a year pension would also be taxed on top of losing her original £119k from her pension pot, seem's to me to be a poor outcome for someone who has saved all their life. Might have been better to have channeled funds into cash/s&s isa's instead.
Another great video Pete....I've just hit 60 and even though I worked in financial markets (not pensions!) all my life, you manage to clarify and simplify a pretty complex subject that is a real boon to folks of all ages. Indeed I had watched dozens of your videos and decided that I needed some professional advice. It was mainly to clarify my own thoughts and critically to make sure I wasn't making any undoable mistakes as I received/constructed my pensions and savings. To that end you ended up with me as a client despite some serious competition :-) (though you (and Mark) may be regretting it now of course !!)
It's a privilege to serve, Nigel. Ask mark to let me know when you're on a call with him next and I'll put my head in the call!. you're in great hands with him - he's a superb adviser!
Good information and insight but feel examples are sided to people with around 1 million would of been better with a bigger difference in pots/overall available money
Noted, Kevin. Obviously when considering the impact of the LTA, the pots need to be large. But the principles of Drawdown, UFPLS and Annuities apply no matter the size of the pot
Saving for retirement feels quite simple. Getting the money out...
Good examples and helpful, but still feels like one of those things that unless you fit the example exactly (which will never happen) it still leaves lots of questions. I guess that's where a financial planner comes in!
Well, yeah - it's why I have a job. But if you understand the mechanics you may be able to work out what might work for you. Remember that there are often many ways to achieve what you want to achieve, and rarely a 'right' or 'best' option...
Hi Pete,
Just been catching up on some of your videos, and they've grrrreat!
One of them motivated me to ask this question.
How do I know that paying for advice will be worthwhile?
I am a skilled manual worker in manufacturing, and whilst my future retirement finances are healthy, in comparison with most of my peers, I am constantly made aware of how little I actually know. Thanks to you and other content providers, I am regularly learning new things, and can truly see the sense in having experts like yourself, maximising income and investment strategies, but,
Can I afford it?
Some charges I have seen are eye-watering. Some also seem endless.
Keeping costs to a minimum is important, especially when the sums & opportunities relatively small.
Some fees could wipe out profits in bad market conditions.
How do I know what is worthwhile, and when?
I have a deferred DB with a CETV of 400k and a pot I hope will be around 200k at 60, when I wish to retire, but like everyone, I have individual nuances that seldom fit the case studies in these videos.
Hi SlayerRocks2
I understand your points about fees. You could look for an adviser who charges in a way which works for you. some charge hourly rates, some percentages, some fixed fees.
Any adviser *should* add more value than they charge, but some elements, such as performance, can't be guaranteed of course.
I wish you well - good luck!
LTA exceeded here?
I love your videos but agree with the comments that the figures you use are not the norm. Why not aim for people who have been on minimum wage most of their life .
Hi Mohamed. I understand, but the video is designed specifically to help people understand the interplay between crystallisation methods and the lifetime allowance. Folks who have been on minimum wage all their lives are not, with the best will in the world, going to have an issue with the lifetime allowance.
Maybe I’ll do a version addressing smaller pension funds. Watch this space…
In the Tony example, is there any merit in refusing to take his state pension? This would free up about £6,500 each year of his personal tax free allowance that could be used to pay less tax on his private/corporate pension income. Furthermore, when he does claim his state pension, it would at a higher rate. Admittedly, he needs to live another 17 years for the state pension income foregone to be overtaken by the extra amounts received.
Why is the value to crystallise £600k please? Where does that value come from?
Another super helpful video. Your explanation and examples make sense of what could be considered a minefield especially if you make the wrong choices. 👍 keep it going please and thank you!!
I will, Aki- thank you! Glad it was useful…
Ever since the BBC decided to dumb-down its financial programme “MoneyBox”, it’s been hard to find genuinely useful financial wisdom in the public domain. I don’t see anything unrealistic in these videos or the amounts of money illustrated. Anyone on a modest or average income who prioritises saving would have these sums in their pensions by the time they retire, as long as they start early enough. The challenge is, no one learns this unless they have a financially savvy parent, or are lucky to discover a good financial planner soon enough. In my case it was the latter.
Cheers, Lee - I agree!
One thing I’m missing here is why doesn’t Tina take her 25% tax free sum of 125k and save all the messing about.put it in the bank and live off that for 10 years?
Why is UFPLS only recommended for ad hoc withdrawals and not ongoing withdrawals?
It can do both, but generally UFPLS is easier to organise for ad hoc lump sums. There are providers that can arrange regular UFPLSs, though, so whatever works for you. Note that nothing in the examples constitute recommendations - they’re just examples.
If you set up regular UFPLS withdrawals, isn’t this basically the same as FAD? Other than taking the tax free amount as chunks rather than a one off amount??
I read that the average pension pot in the UK is just over £60k so it's a shame not to look at more extreme example at the lower end, pension pots of £500k to £950k I guess might be standard for your normal clients but those that can't afford your services but wish to learn - it's difficult with the examples given. A pension pot of £150k say might have been an interesting example
A few people said this, so I listened: czcams.com/video/0xF9B-h0-Fo/video.html
These are not your average situations that most people can relate too
Maybe not. Doesn’t make them unhelpful for those who need them though - hence the view count. What would you like to know about?
Suppose I have £100k in my pension pot.
I am allowed to withdraw 25% of it tax free (drawdown)= £25k
My pension pot then becomes £75,000
If I want to take per year the level of the personal allowance only (currently 12750), can I take the £25k in portions every month to top up the 12750?
My question phrased differently,
Suppose I take 12750 per year, with my example, I can therefore more or less take it in 6 years time and dry out the pot.
But can I divide the £25k drawdown by 6 and take £4166 per year as well?
It means per year I could get tax free £16916. Is it possible?
PS : I assume I have no other income from elsewhere and I am over 55 yrs old. And yes I believe you would not recommend this because I would have dried out the pot, which might not be desirable, but my questions above are only to understand if technically I would be allowed to take the personal allowance out of the main pot and top it up with the 25% tax-free drawdown?
Yes, you could take all your 25% tax free cash out in one go, then keep your withdrawals to below £12,570 each year and pay no tax on the withdrawals (assuming no other income, as you say).
Alternatively, you could draw £16,760 each year, made up of £4,190 tax free cash and £12,570 taxable and pay no tax as the ‘taxable’ part would fall within the personal allowance.
Your understanding is correct 👍🏻