I get very confused looking at NT's UK retirement statements. It seems like there are a dozen different company names involved, but supposedly there are only two pensions.
So I believe I got an updated value for the smaller of the two pensions. Supposedly it's at 12,663 British pounds, which is quite a bit higher than the value for it I have in my net worth records.
Just a note to myself so I can update that amount the next time I calculate net worth! Now I can put all these confusing statements away in the file and not look at them anymore, because I'm getting a headache.
Update to pension value
May 23rd, 2010 at 06:40 pm
May 23rd, 2010 at 06:45 pm 1274640310
May 23rd, 2010 at 06:49 pm 1274640559
May 24th, 2010 at 12:50 am 1274662217
NT also said there's been some selling of his pensions from company to company, so that might explain it too.
I've actually been thinking I'd love to talk to a British financial adviser while we're over there in October. I don't know if we'd have time, but I feel like it might help me understand better. This is my weakest area of all our finances, and I'm afraid NT's very little help; everything is so automated in the UK with regard to retirement and taxes, that the average person doesn't really need to know what's going on; it just gets taken care of for them. (From your blog it sounds like Australia has more similarities to the UK than the US in areas like retirement and health care.)