Cristiano Ronaldo may be the first name people consider nowadays when the the name ‘Ronaldo’ comes up, but the original version’s place in football history is secure.
Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima, to give him his full name, generated headlines since he was a teenager breaking through at Cruzeiro to the end of his playing career in 2011.
Known as O Fenomeno – ‘The Phenomenon’ – and R9, the Brazilian Ronaldo remains a source of inspiration to many of the
The UK state pension notoriously pays a meagre income that barely covers the basic cost of living in retirement.
Even those who receive the full £11,500 a year face a shortfall of almost £3,000 on what is required for a ‘minimum’ standard of living, according to pension industry guidelines.
But are British pensioners really any worse off than their counterparts in Europe and around the world?
And just how generous are state pension schemes in other countries?
With the help
Until last week, holiday lets offered landlords a small boon amid a relentless squeeze on buy-to-let investments.
While landlords in general have been forced to grapple with rising taxes and dwindling tax reliefs, which eat into their profits, holiday-let owners have benefited from much more generous rules. It’s no surprise, then, that thousands of landlords have been switching their long-term lets to holiday homes in recent years to bolster their profits.
A quarter of landlords who advertise with Sykes Cottages,
Whether it’s glorious holidays abroad, spending time with family, days on the golf course or leisurely lunches with friends, most of us have dreamt up a rosy picture of what our early years of retirement might look like.
Indeed, a record number of over-55s have called time on their careers early in the past few years, with close to 400,000 more than usual leaving the workplace, according to official figures.
Yet many who did retire early are now being forced
The UK’s biggest pension tracked by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) stands at approximately £11million, a Freedom of Information (FOI) request reveals.
According to figures collated in 2022, it’s estimated that some 929,000 savers have accrued pension wealth of £1million to £2million, with 128,000 sitting on pensions worth up to £3million. Meanwhile, 46,000 investors are sitting on pensions worth more than £3million.
However, the ONS estimates people need to have a pension wealth of £374,500 to be among the
“She evidently is a tough opponent, a lefty. It’s never easy to play against a leftie with the ball going the other way. But I have nothing to lose. I’m going to go out there and have fun regardless and see what happens.”
And she will be able to go into the match with the confidence of winning her first match out of retirement after proving that her form on the practice court was no fluke. “I think I have
Wozniacki will make her highly-anticipated return to tennis on Tuesday – more than three years after saying farewell at the 2020 Australian Open. The 33-year-old announced her comeback in a Vogue essay back in June and will take on Australia’s Kimberly Birrell at the WTA 1000 event in Montreal.
Ahead of her first match back, the 2018 Australian Open champion is feeling relaxed and warned the circuit that she was focusing on Flushing Meadows more than Montreal, hoping to peak
In 2015, when Diana and Charles Cox were considering where to retire, they drove their R.V. across the Southwest to visit several possibilities: Santa Fe, Sedona, Phoenix, Las Vegas.
They’d lived in San Jose, Calif., for nearly 20 years, but Ms. Cox was winding down her practice as a biotech patent attorney, and her income was dropping as taxes, housing and other living costs were rising.
Her husband, 71, a contractor, had retired years earlier. “I was having more and
Lewis Hamilton’s contract situation at Mercedes is still yet to be resolved despite the Brit holding lengthy talks with the Silver Arrows over the last few months. Hamilton’s existing deal is set to run out at the end of this year, which will leave his Mercedes future hanging in the balance until he finally decides to put pen to paper.
The fundamental aspects of a new deal are said to have already been settled upon, with only minor differences holding
On Wednesday morning a crowd gathered outside the Uniqlo flagship store on Fifth Avenue hoping to catch a glimpse of Roger Federer.
The tennis player, who retired in 2022, was inside introducing his first fashion collection, which he designed with Jonathan Anderson. It will be sold by Uniqlo starting Aug. 28, the first day of the U.S. Open.
Mr. Federer, 41, has long sold hats and T-shirts with his RF logo, but this project is different. The collection includes fast-drying
