Recommence personal pension contributions?

[LGDT]

Good post. But I think you understated it, pensions are a complete and utter mugs game.

Agreed. I wouldn't touch a pension with a syphilis-infested bargepole and I wish I knew in 1988 what I know now.

Successive governments have been unable to resist fscking about with them to the extent that the disadvantages now far outweigh the benefits.

[Mich the Tester]

WLGDTS.

Everything I've done with pensions since 1988 has turned into an unmitigated disaster.

Ho hum.

Sounds like you've done a better job than my pension provider then. In their case the disaster was mitigated by the fleet of Mercedes S-Classes and BMW 7 series the board purchased for themselves. There might have been whores and cocaine involved too.

[Descartes Dog]

Good post. But I think you understated it, pensions are a complete and utter mugs game.

Really helpful info - thanks. I think I'll focus on ISA and other investments rather than pension.

[wikramasingha]

Really helpful info - thanks. I think I'll focus on ISA and other investments rather than pension.

What oother investments would be likely candidates?

In my considered opinion I think you should make maximum annual contributions to your ISA until you have a decent pot and then reinvest the return.