Legal & General Pension Review

A Legal and General pension can play an important role in your retirement planning, but only if it is still right for you. Over time, pensions can quietly drift off track. Investment funds change, charges can increase, and your own goals often evolve.

At Hilltop Finance, our Legal and General Pension Review is designed to give you clarity. We help you understand how your pension is performing today, what you are paying in fees, and whether it still supports the retirement you want.

Important information: Our website offers information about investing and saving, but not personal advice. If you’re not sure which services are right for you, please request advice from Hilltop’s independent financial advisers. Remember that investments can go up and down in value, so you could get back less than you put in.

What's Included With Our Legal & General Pension Review

Your Pension's Performance

Our advisers will check the performance of your Legal & General pension against its benchmark and across the market. This ensures you’re getting the right pension for you, that will potentially deliver for your retirement.

Check The Fees You're Paying

All pension providers charge a fee for managing your funds. Our advisers will check that your Legal & General pension or any other pensions you may have are not charging you excessive fees. Excessive fees could be affecting your pension’s growth.

Risk Check Your Funds.

All pension funds are subject to an element of risk. As part of our review service, we will carry out a full financial risk assessment to ensure your Legal & General pension is aligned to your attitude to financial risk.

Management Options

Does your Legal & General pension offer online access? Can you get up-to-date valuations instantly? During your Legal & General pension review, we will find out what’s important to you and ensure the personal pension you invest in can give you the functions you require.

Who are Legal & General?

Legal and General is one of the UK’s largest and most established financial services providers. They offer workplace pensions, personal pensions and drawdown options, and are trusted by millions of people across the country.

While their reputation brings reassurance, being with a well known provider does not automatically mean your pension is working as well as it could. Many Legal and General pensions are set up years earlier and never reviewed, which can lead to outdated investment choices or unnecessary costs.

Why should you get your Legal & General pension reviewed?

It is common for pensions to be left untouched for long periods of time. Unfortunately, this can mean missed opportunities or risks that go unnoticed.

A Legal and General pension review may be helpful if:

– Your retirement plans have changed

– Your income or family situation is different

– You are unsure how your pension is invested

– You do not know what charges you are paying

– You are thinking more seriously about retirement

A review is not about making changes for the sake of it. It is about checking that your pension still makes sense for your life today.

Are fees affecting your Legal & General pension growth?

Charges are one of the biggest factors affecting long term pension growth, and overpaying in fees can have a noticeable impact on your pension value over time.

As part of our Legal and General Pension Funds Review, we look at:

– Fund management charges

– Platform and administration costs

– Any ongoing adviser fees

– Investment performance after charges

Our role at Hilltop Finance is here to help you understand whether your Legal & General pension offers good value and whether alternatives could improve your long term outcome.

What to expect

Expert advice in three simple steps

We’re committed to going the extra mile, holding your needs and requirements at the centre of our trusted advice. Everybody is different, and the financial advice we deliver reflects that. Our professional advice is always relevant, personalised and tailored to you.

Get in touch

Give us a call on 0161 413 7051 or let us know when you’d like us to call back. A friendly pension professional will discuss your enquiry to get a better understanding of your situation.

Analyse and report

As soon as you give us authority to work on your behalf, our team will get started analysing your pensions to produce an in-depth report and assess against the market.

The choice is yours

Your expert pension adviser will deliver their assessment and ensure you fully understand the advice given. Now you will be able to make informed decisions.

Arrange a callback

or call us now on 0161 413 7051

Frequently asked questions

Should you have any queries about our services, or if you can’t find what you’re looking for simply get in touch with our friendly team who are here to answer any questions you might have.

Consolidating your pensions from different employers is run in the same format as a regular pension consolidation service. It’s generally not recommended to combine out of your current workplace pension, but in some cases, you can combine and transfer your other funds into your current workplace pension. Please speak with our team to find out all of your options.

Retirement Income Planning is the process of assessing how much income you will need in retirement and then making decisions and actions on how to achieve the targeted income. Your financial adviser will work with you to make a detailed retirement plan to help achieve your goals.

To combine your pensions, a financial adviser will need your authority to speak with your pension providers and then your authority to act on your behalf to transfer your pensions into the recommended product.

By initially giving the financial adviser the power to speak with your providers (Letter of Authority) the financial adviser will request the relevant information they need to make any recommendations on if consolidation is right for you, where to combine and potentially transfer your pensions.

For the full process of combining your pensions, please speak with our team.

A 25% Tax-free lump sum is calculated on the total value of your defined contribution pensions, rather than specific to each policy. The advisers at Hilltop will be able to give you guidance on your options.

Tax treatment depends on the individual circumstances of each client and may be subject to change in future.

Capital at Risk.

Depending on your current pensions, you could lose money when combining your pensions, if they have exit fees included or any guaranteed rates included. By speaking with our advisers, they can check to see if any of your current pensions have any clauses attached and help you to make the right choices about pension consolidation. If we don’t think that pension consolidation is in your best financial interests, we will tell you that too.

Capital at Risk.

There are several ways of consolidating your pensions. But, we believe the best way to consolidate them and to ensure you’re getting the best pension policy for your circumstances is to speak to our team.

We will quickly assess your current pensions and offer advice and recommendations on where to consolidate your funds. The advice we give is always in your best financial interests, and by speaking with us, we can take some of the decision processes from you and guide you to a more suitable pension, rather than a fit for all pension you may see online.

Capital at Risk.

Combining your pensions could have many benefits. Putting your pensions into one policy can help you to keep track on the value of your funds, quickly see the performance of your fund and also you could benefit from lower management charges than having multiple pensions.

With all your funds in one place, you could furthermore reduce the chance of losing track or forgetting about that smaller pension pot that you accrued with an old employer. Pension consolidation isn’t for everyone, though, so please speak with one of our advisers before moving your pensions.

Capital at Risk

You could drawdown from a personal pension from your 55th birthday. In some circumstances i.e. ill health, your pension provider may allow you to take money from your pension, but this is at their discretion.

Capital at Risk

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