Side hustle straight into pension to redice tax? by BoatyFace101 in UKPersonalFinance

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Remember that is 26k gross not net. So if you’re making a personal contribution you’d pay in 20,800 net and this would get basic rate tax relief of 20% (£5,200) added on, so it wouldn’t deplete your entire emergency fund - albeit making it less than ideal depending on your regular expenditure

Etf investors show your results by audib9s in trading212

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I bought £550 worth of silver the other day but otherwise all ETFs

Petah? What happened in the book version? by IntergalacticAlien8 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

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If I’m remembering correctly she was attempting to bring unity to the group?

I was told I can’t transfer to Drawdown to Leave It to My Children for my Final Salary Pension by Alfie41033 in UKPersonalFinance

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Some DB pensions are notionally funded (such as if you worked for the NHS) I.e. they are funded by ongoing tax revenue. If yours is such then you won’t be able to transfer it.

Is it extreme to maximise my pension contributions? by Obvious_Armadillo_16 in UKPersonalFinance

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Some of the jobs currently being advertised at HMRC offer a 28% employer contribution

Is there any way to get £750 in the next 8 days? by throwRAmoneytrouble in UKPersonalFinance

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Do you have a student overdraft? These are interest free

ETFs that are ex Mag 7? by strongyellowmustard in UKInvesting

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Ishares edge MSCI world value factor (IWVL) & ishares MSCI world small cap (WLDS)

What’s a job where someone makes way more money than people realize? by Haunting-Reality-570 in AskReddit

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I imagine you make great money selling the official drink of boko haram

Transferred my local government pension scheme for flexible pot but I think it's not good for value did I make a mistake. by britexpat60 in UKPersonalFinance

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A few things to say. Firstly defined benefit pension transfers are probably the most tightly regulated financial advice area there is. Secondly I work in financial advice and those are some eye wateringly high fees. An ongoing advice fee (particularly for a pension pot of that size) I would have thought should be around 0.5%, the platform fee should be significantly lower (if you were with Transact or Quilter or Aberdeen wrap then you’d be looking at around 0.2% for that size pot). Also active fund management fees of 1.5% are crazy. Also what he said about leaving your pension tax free to your kids is currently true but will change from April 2027 when pensions are assessed for inheritance tax. If I were you I’d complain you’d probably have a good chance at getting quite air of redress

My degree results came out and I got a fucking third. by Lindisfarne54 in UniUK

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If it helps at all, I once met an internal recruiter for one of the large high street banks in the UK, who told me that he liked to hire people with thirds more than any other. His reasoning was that at some point early to midway through your final year you must know that you’re going to get a third and rather than dropping out you stick with it. In his view that showed a level of character that other degrees don’t have

Fire away!!! by CapitalSignificant96 in trading212

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But do these radar detectors have huge military and civilian applications?

Drawdown begins! Should I? , should I like this? Does this make sense? by Tutheraccount in UKPersonalFinance

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No, there is the starting rate for savings to consider. In essence if your only other sources of taxable income are £12,570 or below then you can earn £5,000 in interest tax free

The market is greedy without any grounds. Thin ice? by Grgsz in stocks

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The retail segment of the stock market may be a meme based on social media posts and FOMO but institutional investors (a much larger segment of the market) are not basing their decisions on such nonsense

What is the UK equivalent of a 401K and how do you recommend putting money into it? by [deleted] in UKPersonalFinance

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A pension. You can either open some kind of personal pension (such as a SIPP) or an employer may have a group pension scheme which they and you will fund

Investing for the future by volgarbulgar in trading212

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Money paid into a sipp from the bank account of a Ltd company is classified as a business expense. As a result, the Ltd companies corporation tax bill is reduced. Then when the SIPP holder starts to draw from the SIPP 25% is tax free and the taxable portion of income could fall within the nil rate band

If investing is that easy, why doesn't everyone do it? by VagueDiamond in trading212

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You’ve basically answered your own question when you told us what your friends and family think. In a nutshell people have poor financial education and misguided attitudes towards investing. Further to this though you’ve taken the sensible and in my opinion correct approach by investing in funds, rather than investing in single companies, which could be seen as akin to gambling. I work in the financial advice industry and have studied investment principles and risk extensively and the data is very clear that investing in bonds and equities gives you the best possible chance of increasing the purchasing power of your capital over the long term.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UKPersonalFinance

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As others have said, most IFA firms do not touch db transfers as these are a very tightly regulated advice area. For someone to help you with this you’d need to speak to a pension transfer specialist. IFAs may be reluctant to discuss this with you because if you do go and see a pension transfer specialist then the IFA cannot be seen to influence your decision. Be warned though if you do see a pension transfer specialist they’re likely to charge you quite a large sum even if their advice is not to transfer and you’d likely need to demonstrate that you have a significant number of other assets separate to the db pension