Are you 50+ and ready to plan your future?

Pre-Retirement MasterClass

UK retirement experts will explain how to prepare your lifestyle, finances and pensions for retirement.

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Planning confidently for retirement
11,000+
employees have attended over the last 10 years
94%
feel more confident about preparing for retirement
Learning outcomes

Get ready for retirement

Designing a plan for retirement

Design your future

You will identify the building blocks that shape a successful plan for retirement. Transition from the workplace and flow into a rewarding new lifestyle. Prepare for the 3 stages of retirement, focus on your health and changing relationships.

Discovering new opportunities

Discover new opportunities

Ready to start something new? Explore how volunteering and learning new skills can add purpose and happiness to your retirement. Create new income streams via paid employment and learn how to start your own business.

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Know your numbers

Gain an expert insight into how to build your financial plan for retirement. Learn how to prepare your retirement budget and structure your savings and investments. Get the facts about estate planning, inheritance tax, property and long-term care.

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Explore your pension options

A Chartered Financial Planner provides a deep dive into workplace and state pensions. Learn how to access your different pensions and the tax implications. Should you combine your pensions, and what happens to your pension upon death?

Enrolment

Join our next workshop

Attend this workshop via Microsoft Teams

Workshop dates

  • 30 September 2026
  • 22 October 2026
  • 26 November 2026

The delegate fee is paid by your employer. Request the programme guide for full details and reserve your place.

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Start planning your future

Our learning team will email your programme guide:

  • Learning content
  • Workshop dates
  • Delegate fee
  • Reserve your place

* Learning programmes are for educational purposes only, financial advice is not provided at any time.

Delivery team

Delivery team

The Pre-Retirement MasterClass is delivered by two UK retirement experts, who explain how to design a successful plan for the future.

Allan Esler Smith FCA

Allan Esler Smith

  • Widely considered the UK's leading retirement planning expert.
  • Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAEW).
  • Author of The Retirement Planning Expert, the #1 best seller in retirement planning.

Phil Haden

  • Award-winning Chartered Financial Planner, the gold standard of IFAs.
  • Fellow of the Personal Finance Society.
  • Advanced Pensions & Pension Freedom qualifications.
Phil Haden, Chartered Financial Planner
Learning materials

Learning materials

The Retirement Planning Expert
The Retirement Planning Expert — 6th edition, UK #1 Best Seller

Delegates receive a copy of The Retirement Planning Expert.

The #1 Amazon best seller is a comprehensive guide of how to prepare for retirement in the UK.

The author of the book Allan Esler Smith delivers the morning session of the workshop.

Clients

Supporting individuals from the private and public sectors

Thames Water
Dr. Oetker
Arqiva
gov.scot
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
Sony
DHL
Department for Business & Trade
Amazon
Thames Water
Dr. Oetker
Arqiva
gov.scot
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
Sony
DHL
Department for Business & Trade
Amazon

Explore the programme

Our learning team will email your programme guide:

  • Learning content
  • Workshop dates
  • Delegate fee
  • Reserve your place

* Learning programmes are for educational purposes only, financial advice is not provided at any time.