Q I’m 60 and have two pension funds with my former employer. One is a guaranteed with-profits fund that is paid up since the early Nineties. The other is a defined contribution pension that is paid up since 2014, but there are still outstanding contributions due from that employer and it’s taking a legal route to resolve. My question is this: is it possible to draw down one of the funds and leave the other one invested? And is it safer to leave them in the employer’s scheme or should I transfer them into my own name?
During almost two decades as a Sky News correspondent, broadcaster Enda Brady (48) reported on subjects from the pandemic to Brexit and interviewed world leaders and Hollywood A-listers. The Wexford native currently presents Roundtable, a London-based current affairs on TRT World, runs a media coaching for clients such as England international footballers and CEOs, and is a media training consultant with Healy Communications, the PR firm run by broadcaster Jonathan Healy. He lives in Oxfordshire.
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