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Top 5 Tips for Small Business Retirement

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Small business owners are often in an unusual position because they won’t receive a pension from their employer once they retire. The self-employed have to think more carefully than most about planning for their retirement. This weeks tips column contains our Top 5 Tips for planning your retirement from a small business: 1.

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Building a business from your skillset

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There is an interesting article on the BBC Business website about how former athletes are making a success of their retirement by becoming entrepreneurs. Sportspeople have to face a massive change in their life at a relatively young age.

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A Lesson From Beckham

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On the day that David Beckham announced that he will be retiring from professional football, I felt compelled to put aside the theme I’d been planning and write this piece instead.

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Defined Contributions – Still several risks attached

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With so many companies still licking their wounds as the result of continuing pension fund deficits, it is hardly surprising that new schemes tend to be of the defined contribution variety whereby the only thing guaranteed is the employer’s contribution rather than the benefits payable on retirement.

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Top 5 Tips for Senior Entrepreneurs

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There is no reason why older people can’t start their own business too, even if they have no previous experience of entrepreneurship or if they have already passed retirement age. Entrepreneurship is not just a young person’s game.

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Top 5 Tips for Business Longevity

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If your business is to last until your retirement age (and perhaps beyond) you will need to think carefully about diversifying your portfolio so that your future is not totally reliant on the continued success of just one product or service.

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Work-Life Balance 2.0 and Small Business | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

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Ian Wilson THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG » Blog Archive » Ready To Retire Right Now? San Francisco Lawyer Said on October 1st, 2008 at 3:49 pm For a very long time the move was towards working for large corporations so you could get a retirement and other benefits. Well don Interwatch Security!

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