Skandia insights

Skandia insights

What is an investment platform?

This short video explains how an investment platform can give you flexibility and control over your investments.

Building a decent retirement income

In this video, Jim and Jon, Skandia pension experts, provide a light-hearted guide to pension planning and introduce Skandia's pension calculator.

The Retirement Route Planner

Growing pains

Skandia’s study about the roads to wealth for Britain’s youth highlights the financial challenges many young adults experience as they move away from home.

Words of wisdom falling on deaf ears

'If I only knew then what I know now' – a survey of 500 UK professionals using specialist recruiter skilledpeople.com asking what advice they would give to youngsters in their twenties to help them achieve success.

Millionaire Monitor

Third Millionaire Monitor Shows Confidence in Government and Economy is Falling.

Topic: Latest research

Understand your retirement with our pension calculator

Our pension calculator, the Retirement Route Planner, can help you make sense of all your pension pots and what they mean for your retirement income.

Topic: Retirement

Millionaire Monitor 2012

Following the launch of the UK Millionaire Monitor in 2011, the latest version – featuring data collected in January 2012 – has been expanded to include research with wealthy individuals in France, Italy, Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai, as well as the UK.

Topic: Latest research

First Steps to Wealth

A study highlighting earning options for Britain’s youth.

Topic: Latest research

On your best behaviour

Do you let your heart rule your head when it comes to investing? Here we explore some of the common mistakes and how to avoid them.

Topic: Managing your investments

Skandia's Millionaire Monitor

Skandia's Millionaire Monitor survey used an independent research company to survey over 500 millionaires on a range of different topics. The aim was to gauge how they felt about living in Britain and the issues and topics that affect them.

Topic: Latest research

Making a million – a question of degrees?

It’s official: doing your homework is the best way to make serious money. At least that’s what our Millionaire Monitor survey – carried out with more than 500 British millionaires - indicates.

Topic: Latest research

Stock market volatility

Stock markets around the world have reacted negatively to the eurozone debt crisis, the slowdown in the US and the downgrading of the US credit rating by Standard & Poor’s.

Topic: Investment: an introduction

Four weddings and a reality check

Weddings and civil partnership ceremonies are big business and even a fairly modest one can cost a five-figure sum. Research carried out with 500 engaged couples showed that 7 out of 10 rely on the bank of mum or dad to afford the day of their dreams.

Topic: Latest research

Protecting against market falls

When might you consider protecting your stock market based investments against market falls? Graham Bentley offers his view.

Topic: Managing your investments

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