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NEWS & SPECIAL OFFERS

1/1/2010 Interesting Year ahead for Retirement Planning

"We are in for an interesting year" said Managing Director Tony Wheeler when interviewed recently retarding retirement planning issues.

"We have a relatively in-experienced Pensions Minister Yvette Cooper due to oversee the implementation of the Pensions Act 2007 which involves the most major changes to the state pension since 1948.

Countless women who retire before April 5th this year without full state pensions are likely to vent their anger at the Government when they learn that those reaching state pension age after 6th April may receive far more generous pensions. For example a woman reaching state pension age on 4th April 2010 with a 20 year national insurance record will receive a pension in today’s terms of about £49 per week. A woman whose state pension age fall two days later on 6th April would receive £63.50 per week for the same 20 years national insurance record. If they both live to be 80, then £15,080 more will have been won or lost for the sake of having been born perhaps premature or later than due!! By 90 the figure rises to £22,620.

These figures ignore the state pension increasing each year which would exaggerate the imbalance substantially more."

1/12/09 Open Course dates and venues 2010

If you are interested in attending an open course, or sending an employee on one, please contact us even if the dates and venues below do not suit.

1/10/09 HMS Belfast hosts Talking Retirement Online launch

Leading providers of pre-retirement lifestyle training, Oxfordshire-based Retirement Education Services Ltd. recently caught the attention of a number of well-known major employers at the launch of their web-based self-teaching programme “Talking Retirement Online”.
A prestigious launch event was held on board HMS Belfast near Tower Bridge in London and attended by representatives of employers such as GlaxoSmithKline, Harrods and Sainsbury’s. Managing Director of RES, Tony Wheeler, said “Talking Retirement Online is the culmination of over 20 years of experience offering comprehensive, independent advice to would-be retirees. We are pleased and proud to have generated a high level of interest from some of the best-known organisations in the U.K.”
A draw was held at the end of the day providing a year’s free licence for the product. This was won by the aptly named Andrew Luck of Thomson Reuters.

Being internet-based, “Talking Retirement Online” can be made available to a company’s entire workforce through purchase of an inexpensive, annual user license, offering huge cost savings when compared with traditional face-to-face, printed or pre-recorded training. Employees are free to learn at their own pace and to re-visit subjects as often as necessary. There is the additional advantage that course material can be updated rapidly in the light of changes to legislation and benefit structures, so that users always have access to the latest facts.
The product launch is well-timed, as recession-hit employers seek to trim overhead costs and possibly bring forward retirement dates. “Talking Retirement Online” enables caring employers to provide high-quality pre-retirement education at what can be less than £1 per person.
For more information, contact Retirement Education Services Ltd. on 01491-833696 or go to www.res-ltd.net or www.talking-retirement.co.uk, where a free limited trial of the product is available.

1/5/2008 Retirement Planning E-Learning for under £1 per employee!

Retirement Education Services are to launch an exciting new retirement planning product that will make the world of retirement planning accessible and economical for many more people.

'Talking Retirement', the 4 CD Audio package presented by Angela Rippon, has been adapted for the Internet as an attractive audio-visual package and will shortly be available to companies for under £1 per employee!

We are very keen to hear from companies who may be interested in trying out our new package, and will be giving special offer prices to our first customers! Send an email to training@res-ltd.net with the subject header 'TALKING RETIREMENT ONLINE' for further information.

10/12/2007 Pre-Retirement course boom for RES!

Retirement Education Services have seen a marked increase in the number of requests for pre-retirement courses for 2007/08

Fifteen new customers chose RES as their in-house course provider in 2007, including Logistics company Kuehne & Nagel, Brewers Inbev, three local authorities and a number of Colleges of Further Education.

There was a 39% rise in courses bookings in the last quarter of 2007, with an unprecedented number of December bookings, traditionally the quietest month of the year.

And things continue to look brighter going forward - there has already been a 67% surge in course bookings for the first quarter of 2008, with the January training schedule almost completely booked and February rapidly filling up.

"There have been dramatic changes to retirement planning recently.." said Managing Director Tony Wheeler, "With Pension Simplification (April 2006), The Age Discrimination Act (October 2006) and the Pensions Act (July 2007), it has never been more important that employers give employees close to their pension ages an opportunity to learn the implications of these changes and ability to make the right decisions on their future."

5/12/2007 

Retirement Education Services featured in SAGA Magazine!

The December Edition of SAGA Magazine included an article by Serena Allott on retirement planning called 'The rosier path to retirement'. It featured a number of organisations, including RES. Managing Director Tony Wheeler was interviewed for the article, as well as a delegate who enjoyed one of our open courses in 2007. The Magazine has over 600,000 subscribers. See the SAGA website for more information