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Why you are leaving money on the table by not contributing to a pension scheme
Imagine you want to help someone and you call them to your office. After they explain themselves, you open your wallet and give them 20,000 shillings. To your surprise, they take 14,000 leaving the rest on the table and walk out. How would that feel? You will be surprised to learn, Kenyans especially those in…

Old-Age Poverty and How We Can Prevent It
When we are old and retired from work, we would all love to continue with our lifestyles or have even better lifestyles. But when most people retire, this is not the case. In life, one of the things we are guaranteed to face is old age. The quality of life that we shall have in…

Inculcating a Saving Culture
If you ask most people why they do not save, the go-to answer is that they don’t have anything left to save. They then go ahead to say that they will start saving when they get more money coming in. The hard truth is that if you can’t save when you have a smaller income,…

Does retirement location matter?
When looking to purchase a piece of land or home, the key thing that we usually consider is location. The same applies when planning for your retirement location. Where you decide to live when in retirement matters. Here are some key factors to consider when choosing a location: Location of your current property If you…

Keeping Busy in Retirement
Work takes up a large percentage of our time, that is why most of us dream of the day when we can finally put our feet up and relax. When the time comes for retirement, people tend to take the trips they never had time for, and do things they had always wanted to do….

Planning for Retirement
Retirement! What do you think of when you hear the word retirement? Well, simply put, retirement is withdrawing oneself from active working life. It is inevitable as it comes with old age. In Kenya, the mandatory retirement age for public servants is 60. Some people opt to begin their retirement life as early as 50….