Author: Touchstone UK

Improving your financial health

Posted by Touchstone UK on May 6, 2022

Staying on track to achieving specific financial goals

All of your financial decisions and activities have an effect on your financial health. To help improve your financial health during this period of rising inflation and interest rates, we look at three areas that could help keep you on track to achieving your specific financial goals.

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How much do I need to save to retire?

Posted by Touchstone UK on May 3, 2022

Questions to help you live your best life in later life

The question, ‘Have I saved enough to retire?’ is a difficult one. It requires a lot of information about you, your family, your income needs in retirement, and an understanding of the various financial vehicles available for saving and investing before it can be answered definitively.

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Cost-of-living crunch

Posted by Touchstone UK on April 29, 2022

Savers still recognise the importance of long-term planning

Britain’s cost-of-living crunch has hit the country hard, with inflation at its highest level in three decades, petrol prices spiralling, retail price increases rising to their highest levels in ten years and, most recently, Ofgem announcing a 54% price hike in energy bills affecting 22 million households.

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Investment choices

Posted by Touchstone UK on April 25, 2022

Behavioural patterns shaping our way of investing, for better or worse

When it comes to money and investing, we’re not always as rational as we may think. Every human being is driven by emotions – more than we would like to admit. Emotions are the key drivers of our behaviour, and these behavioural patterns shape our way of investing, for better or worse.

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Money lessons

Posted by Touchstone UK on November 15, 2019

5 tips that add up to teaching your child about money matters

Understanding how money works is an essential life skill. Unfortunately, for a lot of people, these lessons come later than they should, and often as the result of something going terribly wrong. Continue reading “Money lessons” →

Women’s State Pension age changes

Posted by Touchstone UK on November 11, 2019

Government’s bid to ensure ‘pension age equalisation’

On 3 October, campaigners lost a significant legal battle against the Government’s handling of the rise in women’s State Pension age. Up until 2010, women received their State Pensions at the age of 60, but that has been increasing since then. Continue reading “Women’s State Pension age changes” →

Staying on track to achieving specific financial goals

Questions to help you live your best life in later life

Savers still recognise the importance of long-term planning

Behavioural patterns shaping our way of investing, for better or worse

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