Money Box Live: Your Pensions and Investments
Money Box
BBC
4.2 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
With the end of the tax year fast approaching, people are looking at their finances and investments. But in a cost of living crisis with unstable markets, are they performing, and how should we be investing?
The experts on the panel are Sangita Chawla, Managing Director at Standard Life, and Kirsty Stone, Chartered Financial Adviser at The Private Office.
Presenter: Adam Shaw Producer: Amber Mehmood Editor: Elisabeth Mahy
(First broadcast 3pm, Wednesday 22nd February 2023)
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| 0:00.0 | On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation. |
| 0:07.0 | It was an extraordinary news story. |
| 0:09.0 | The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny, |
| 0:14.0 | mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared. |
| 0:18.0 | One of the great mysteries in English criminal history. We're still looking for |
| 0:21.7 | Lucan. It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime. I'm Alex Fontunzelman. This is |
| 0:27.8 | the Lucan Obsession. Listen on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Welcome to the podcast of Moneybox Live, the program about your money. |
| 0:41.5 | The cost of living crisis, unpredictable markets, and the end of the tax year fast approaching. |
| 0:47.5 | It all means that a lot of people are looking at their finances and investments. |
| 0:52.1 | Add to that, there have been calls to limit the tax-free lump sum people can take |
| 0:56.3 | from their pensions and to increase the state pension age, so you have to work longer before you |
| 1:02.2 | retire. According to one piece of research, internet searches for pension questions have now hit |
| 1:08.4 | record highs. So today, we're looking at pensions, investments and any |
| 1:13.8 | of the financial questions which may have been bothering you. And with me to answer those questions |
| 1:19.3 | are Sangita Chowla, managing director for pensions and savings at the Investment Group's |
| 1:24.3 | Standard Life and Chartered financial Planner, Kirsty Stone. |
| 1:28.3 | As Sangita, if I could start with you, this time of year, |
| 1:31.0 | I understand traditionally been a time when people do re-look at their pensions. |
| 1:35.1 | That bit of research I mentioned came from you. |
| 1:37.5 | Why is that? |
| 1:38.3 | Why is it now that people start reviewing what they have? |
| 1:41.9 | We tend to find that this time of year it's tax year end. |
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