{"id":238600,"date":"2025-10-25T06:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T06:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/238600\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T06:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T06:04:10","slug":"your-money-questions-we-are-pensioners-so-where-can-we-get-a-return-on-e30000-over-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/238600\/","title":{"rendered":"Your money questions \u2013 We are pensioners, so where can we get a return on \u20ac30,000 over four years?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Plus, how long does it take for my health insurance upgrade to kick in?\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"As you age, preserving capital is more important than chasing returns. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/9769445f-4d6b-43ad-a8a4-eae9313351a0.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">As you age, preserving capital is more important than chasing returns. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Q My wife and I are pensioners with a combined income of \u20ac38,000 a year. I am 83-years-old and my wife is aged 76. We have \u20ac40,000 saved. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Where can I invest \u20ac30,000 of the \u20ac40,000 to get the best return over four years? We save \u20ac1,000 a month out of our joint income. I still pay income tax of approximately \u20ac1,500 a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plus, how long does it take for my health insurance upgrade to kick in? As you age, preserving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[45,49,48,81334,112493,133,81335,6107,131,132,5551],"class_list":{"0":"post-238600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-charlie-weston","12":"tag-credit-unions","13":"tag-finance","14":"tag-money-experts","15":"tag-pensions","16":"tag-personal-finance","17":"tag-personalfinance","18":"tag-savings"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}