{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Pensions for the self-employed","description":"Chartered financial planner David Finan looks at strategies to achieve a comfortable retirement if you\u2019re self-employed. There are 4.8m self-employed people in the UK but fewer than a third of them are actively paying into a pension scheme. Some have other strategies to provide retirement income \u2013 perhaps selling their business to live off the proceeds or building up a portfolio of buy-to-let property \u2013 others have nothing to fall back on but the state pension. In this podcast David Finan, a chartered financial planner and managing director of the financial advice firm Jardine Finan, examines the options open to self-employed business people looking to achieve a comfortable retirement. Click here for the Unbiased website listing independent financial advisers and here for VouchedFor where users rate their adviser. ","author_name":"Cumbria Chamber of Commerce Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/cumbriachamber.libsyn.com\/podcast","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/6883801\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/22477482"}