Stop the government before it raids your pension

When governments go looking for money, it's often your pension funds they plunder, says Bengt Saelensminde. Here, he tips the best ways to protect your retirement savings.

The European machine is in trouble. Greece is essentially bust. Italy's sinking further into the mire each day that passes. Spain's in trouble, too. Even France could end up shocking us.

But you know all this. Question is, is there anything that we can do about it?

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Bengt graduated from Reading University in 1994 and followed up with a master's degree in business economics.

 

He started stock market investing at the age of 13, and this eventually led to a job in the City of London in 1995. He started on a bond desk at Cantor Fitzgerald and ended up running a desk at stockbroker's Cazenove.

 

Bengt left the City in 2000 to start up his own import and beauty products business which he still runs today.