How much money do you need to retire early?
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What does it take to retire early and how much money do you need?
Welcome to This Is Money Podcast, sponsored by Trading212. Download the Trading212 app today and open a Cash ICER with promo code TIM to get the 12-month bonus promo rate of 4.61% term supply. I'm Georgie Frost and joining me and Simon Lambert's Day is Lee Boyce. And coming up, so you want to retire early, we'll tell you how much you need to have saved in your pension to quit the daily grind at any age. How does your pot stack up? Also, state oil prices and food bills soar is a fresh cost of living crisis on its way as we head towards winter. Every landlord in England will soon have to join a national register, but will it actually make tenants' lives any better? And has Lee's daughter struck gold with a £10 Disney trading card?
Don't forget to stay up to date with all the latest breaking money news. Just go to thisismoney.co.uk or download the app. But first. Do you dream of jacking it all in? And retiring early. Plenty of us have, and it's the young uns apparently that are the most keen. Gen Z, those under twenty nine, are three times more likely to want to retire before the age of fifty five than the rest of us, according to research by Skipton Building Society. But are they more likely to be able to do it? How much would you need and what would it actually take for you to be able to retire at fifty five? But also forty five, fifty, sixty. Welcome, Simon, welcome, Lee Lee. I think For a few of us here, that i.e. all of us, the forty five ship has probably sailed.
But can we do it a little bit earlier than what is planned? What is the current retirement aim? Just just remind us because it's changing, isn't it, soon?
Just to quickly rewind very quickly there, uh wanting to retire when you're twenty nine, three times more likely. I love that. You're you're already done.
It's quite depressing, isn't it? You've done with
work. You're kinda like, I just want to retire now. Uh I've just had it. That's it. Um Checking out, done. Um okay, retirement rules at the moment. So you can think about it in two different ways, really. First part of the puzzle of your retirement uh is your state pension. Now that is currently 66, but it's going to be moving up, it's gradually moving up to 67 between now and 2028. So there are the chances are, depending on your age now, that age is likely to continue going up, uh, if we're being quite frank. But that Is when you can start getting your state pension. And then we've all been pushed, um, I would say, especially under fifties, into saving into our private pensions, um, and trying to trying to take control more of our retirement and having more kind of uh you know, kind of investing and making sure that you're on track and we have a lot more tools at our disposal, I would argue, than previous generations in order to do that.
You can start accessing your private pension from 55. That's rising to 57 from 2028. So for all in tax purposes, 57, you can take 25% tax-free lump sum from that. And then you'll be subject to income tax or anything else that you're withdrawing from your private pension. It's also quite early to be tapping into your pension at that age. You have to be incredibly careful because you know if you leave that money for another five, ten years, compounded interest, all of that kind of stuff is gonna mean you're probably gonna have a richer retirement. Uh but it's a trade-off. A lot of it depends on your health, for example, um, what kind of job that you've done, um, you know, how much is your body being worn down by the job that you've done?
All of those kind of factors come into play. But that is it is the current state of play uh when it comes to retirement.
I was there tapping my head. Not just your body, Lee, your mind. Your mind. Think about all those twenty nine year olds who want to quit now. They're What are they gonna be like in twenty, thirty years? So tell me about this research then, Simon. Uh what would it actually take? I mean, let's go for the bold one. Uh like I said, I think the ship has sailed for all of us here. But, you know, let's say you are this
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What does it take to retire early and how much money do you need?
0:03–5:41
2
How much should I save each month to retire at 45, 55, or 65?
5:41–13:52
3
Why is owning a mortgage‑free home crucial for early retirement?
13:52–20:02
4
How are rising oil, energy and food prices affecting my retirement plans?
20:02–27:27
5
Will the new Renters’ Rights Act landlord register help tenants?
27:27–34:16
6
How did Lee accidentally become a valuable trading‑card collector?
34:16–40:06
7
What can high‑earners like Chris Rokos teach us about tax and retirement?
40:06–46:11
8
What are the key takeaways and next steps for early retirement?
46:11–51:41
Speakers
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