Do you have a “Golden Parachute” account too?

Often when employees are lose their job they receive a sum of money from their employer. In the Netherlands, until 31 December 2014 it was possible to use that sum to buy a claim on periodic benefits to replace lost income; the tax burden on the lump sum payment was...

What to do with my scattered small pensions?

A question that occurs more and more frequently, because people change jobs more than in earlier times and work fewer years with an employer. The result is that people often end up with several small pensions.What are small pensions then? These are pensions accrued...

Is your pension a piece of wet soap to you?

For many people, retirement is like picking up a piece of soap in the shower: hard to get!It starts with the confusion between the state pension date (AOW-datum) and the retirement date. Although the two dates ideally are the same at the end of someone’s working...

You will not die, until you do

It is not a pleasant subject, but also a bit of elephant in the room because we all will face it. And (luckily for whom it happens!) usually unexpected. But at such a moment the surviving relatives are confronted with the harsh recognition of your financial past....

Why?

Someone asking this question has certainly taken the effort to listen to you. I often ask older young people or younger old people whether there is enough income to do the things they want. Of course I ask that question if I have doubts about it. In case I get the...