The Retirement Planning Project aims to help as many people as possible achieve a more financially secure retirement by helping them make better retirement planning decisions.
The project is a combination of easy to understand information really useful tools and calculators this website, backed up by direct access to advisers like myself with whom you can ask questions about any aspect of retirement planning, especially annuity, drawdown and investments.
Pensions and retirement planning are important but many people in the UK bury their head in the sand when it comes to retirement planning and so risk losing out financialy when they retire. Therefore, it is important to take retirement planning seriously but becuase there is an 'advice gap', many people do not know who to trust and where to turn to for help and advice.
The project will help to narrow the advice gap by making it easier to learn about pensions and retirement planning and will help to make it easier to get the right help or value for money advice.
Why financial advice is so important
Many people find retirement confusing, complex and boring. We aim to make the complex simple and to make planning as interesting as possible by providing:
You will be able to access all of the project's resources including;
You will also be subscribed to receive our regular retirement newsletter and updates.
We treat your privacy seriously and your data will not be shared with anybody else and you will not be contacted unless you request contact first.
The project is run by the well-known and respected financial adviser William Burrows who has written most of the educational material and programmed the annuity and drawdown tools.
William has over 25 years’ hands-on experience of advising clients and has written many acclaimed retirement planning guides including; “Retirement is a journey not an event” and “Retirement advice; an art or an science?”
The inspiration for this project came from the experience of running the "Emergency Financial Advice" project in 2020 when a group of over 50 financial advisers offered help and advice to anybody affected by the Covid 19 pandemic.
There is no catch - I am passionate about helping people make the best possible decision at retirement and as a previous pension minister once said to me "we have the scars on our backs from trying to be the customer champion".
For over 25 years I have been providing free information about retirement income and given free access to my calculators and charts as well as answering questions on retirment matters. I am now making this information available through the project to help people make the most of their retirment savings.
All aspects of pensions including annuities and pension drawdown as well as other personal finance matters, e.g. investments, wills, Lasting Powers of Attorney and equity release, but not debt consolidation.
The Retirement Planning Project is a trading style of Eadon and Co which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The project itself is only providing information and this is not financial advice in any way whatsoever.
Anybody who wants financial advice will be referred to a regulated financial adviser such as William Burrows of Eadon & Co.
William Burrows is a financial adviser at Eadon & Co and anybody referred to him for advice will be advised in accordance with the relevant FCA regulations.
Workplace pensions can easily direct their employees to the project's website where they can access all of the resources and take advantage of the free 'toe in the water' meeting with an adviser.
No formal appointment is necessary. However, it is possible to set up a bespoke version of the Retirement Toolbox with dedicated material tailored to the specific scheme.
Many advisers register and use my website for my annuity rates, calculators and charts and I am glad they find this useful.
Advisers can also join the project to brush up on their retirement skills and keep up to date with the latest information.
In order to keep the project independent and unbiased, the project and website and is funded by William Burrows and there is no external funding or sponsorship.
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