Learn how effective planning can help secure a prosperous retirement

Retirement is changing. No longer a few years taking it easy after 40 years of work, today's retirees can look forward to a much longer, more fulfilling retirement. Unfortunately, financing this longer, more adventurous retirement isn't cheap.

We all recognise the importance of having a good pension but with hindsight not all of us acted as soon as, we now realise, we should have. It is however, following the relaxation of pension contribution rules, much easier to give your existing pension a boost. Read the special supplement on retirement planning to better understand and examine the options available to you in order to get the maximum yield from your pension scheme.

This special supplement answers all the burning questions that will enable the shrewd investor to avoid making the wrong decisions that could greatly affect your retirement. Money Observer provides you with the strategies, life-style choices and investment vehicles you should consider for a wealthy future.

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