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The Good Retirement Guide 2025: Everything You Need to Know about Health, Property, Investment, Leisure, Work, Pensions and Tax
Retirement planning has never been more complex. With yearly changes to the policies and professional advice, it can be overwhelming. That's where The Good Retirement Guide 2025 can help.
Retirement can be the perfect opportunity for people to discover new opportunities and to fulfil long-waited experiences, but many are unsure on how to best approach retirement planning and what it entails. Updated for the financial year, this essential guide is here to help navigate the lead up to retirement and the most up-to-date information to make sure that you get the most out of your retirement years.
With expert insights on savings, the cost of living, pensions and tax, The Good Retirement Guide 2025 has been updated to offer helpful knowledge, and to ensure you plan your retirement efficiently.
Retirement can be the perfect opportunity for people to discover new opportunities and to fulfil long-waited experiences, but many are unsure on how to best approach retirement planning and what it entails. Updated for the financial year, this essential guide is here to help navigate the lead up to retirement and the most up-to-date information to make sure that you get the most out of your retirement years.
With expert insights on savings, the cost of living, pensions and tax, The Good Retirement Guide 2025 has been updated to offer helpful knowledge, and to ensure you plan your retirement efficiently.
320 pages, Paperback
Published January 28, 2025
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September 8, 2025
Sadly, I'm not at the point of retirement yet, but every five years or so I read a book on retirement because I want to make the most of it when I finally get there.
The Good Retirement Guide is a completely UK-focused detailed reference guide to all things retirement. It covers things like finances, leisure, working in retirement, health and funerals. There is quite a lot of detail on tax, which is useful. Many pages are filled with long lists of organisations you can contact, which is practical but not particularly inspiring to read. Practical is the word I'd use for the whole book in general, and it's probably most useful those who are just retiring or are newly retired. For me, as purely speculative read, it was not terribly relevant but that's not a reflection on the quality of the book.
The guide is tightly packed with information most of which I already knew having read a few finance /retirement books already; but I did find a few new useful morsels. Despite the density of the information I actually thought that the book spread itself too thin and I wanted more depth. Some bits are rather odd inclusions, e.g. food hygiene (with some questionabe suggestions such as washing eggs).
A rather dry read but not a complicated one, and readers who are lucky enough to be retiring imminently may find the guide quite useful.
I know my personal retirement plan will involve finally getting down to some serious reading and reducing all the unread books in the house!
The Good Retirement Guide is a completely UK-focused detailed reference guide to all things retirement. It covers things like finances, leisure, working in retirement, health and funerals. There is quite a lot of detail on tax, which is useful. Many pages are filled with long lists of organisations you can contact, which is practical but not particularly inspiring to read. Practical is the word I'd use for the whole book in general, and it's probably most useful those who are just retiring or are newly retired. For me, as purely speculative read, it was not terribly relevant but that's not a reflection on the quality of the book.
The guide is tightly packed with information most of which I already knew having read a few finance /retirement books already; but I did find a few new useful morsels. Despite the density of the information I actually thought that the book spread itself too thin and I wanted more depth. Some bits are rather odd inclusions, e.g. food hygiene (with some questionabe suggestions such as washing eggs).
A rather dry read but not a complicated one, and readers who are lucky enough to be retiring imminently may find the guide quite useful.
I know my personal retirement plan will involve finally getting down to some serious reading and reducing all the unread books in the house!
January 19, 2025
Great resource guide for the UK. Extensively researched with lots of links to practical resources. Covers every area from pre-planning retirement to death. Highly recommended for UK. Thank you to the author. Thank you to #netgalley and the publisher for an ARC.
February 5, 2025
This could easily be a manual for life as well as retirement. It’s a useful overview of things you need to think about and helpful resources. Covers all aspects of life and how to get the best out of your time.
August 14, 2025
I have only just started reading. Reviews from others make it a promising read. BUT: there are references/signposting throughout the book to a Directory, downloadable from www.koganpage.com/GRG2025 , which I get a 'page not found' error 404 message. Not a good start.
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