Planning for retirement
- Residents aged 65 or over
- 18.8%
If retirement is your reason for seeking advice, ask how the adviser plans withdrawals and reviews your income over time.
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Dundee serves a broad Tayside advice market, including nearby Angus and Perthshire. Local convenience can be combined with specialist search rather than treating the city boundary as a hard limit.
Dundee, Angus and nearby Perthshire can form one practical advice market. Remote advice can widen choice when specialist experience matters more than distance.
What to compare before choosingThe local-authority figures cover the Dundee City council area, rather than Dundee alone. Each figure shows the period it covers.
If retirement is your reason for seeking advice, ask how the adviser plans withdrawals and reviews your income over time.
Questions for a retirement adviserIf you work for yourself, ask how pension contributions fit with variable income and business commitments.
Advice when you are self-employedIf your plans involve selling or inheriting a home, ask how the adviser considers property alongside savings and pensions.
Planning after a property saleArea averages do not describe your own finances or determine whether you need advice. See the full figures and sources.
Ask for initial advice and ongoing charges separately, including any minimum fee. Compare the cost in pounds and check which other charges apply.
What firms include in their published prices0.75% of £500,000
Example only. Initial advice, platform, fund and product charges are excluded. This is not a quote.Use the fee calculatorCheck regulation first, then compare the advice specialism, typical clients, minimum assets, service style and fees.
Yes where practical. A wider Tayside search can improve specialist choice.
There is no single Dundee price. Ask for the year-one and normal ongoing cost in pounds.
Yes. Local advice can be convenient, but remote specialists can be suitable where the service and expertise fit better.
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We aim to confirm that we have received your enquiry within one working day and update you on the next step within two working days. Working days are Monday to Friday, excluding bank holidays.
How enquiries are reviewedConsider nearby places alongside the experience and meeting arrangements you need.
The local-authority figures cover the Dundee City council area, rather than Dundee alone. Each figure shows the period it covers.
Company figures are not adviser counts. They count active company registrations in selected business categories (SIC codes 64999, 66190, 70221) and do not show FCA authorisation or whether a business trades locally.
Sources: Companies House · ONS population estimates · ONS local statistics · Open Government Licence v3.0.
For Dundee City, the 2022 Census gives this industry breakdown: Wholesale and Retail trade; Repair of Motor Vehicles and Motorcycles accounts for 13.0% of employment, 1.8 percentage points above the Scotland benchmark. Public Administration and Defence; Compulsory Social Security accounts for 9.3% of employment, 0.2 percentage points above the Scotland benchmark. Human Health and Social Work Activities accounts for 18.0% of employment, 3.4 percentage points above the Scotland benchmark. Among the three sectors shown, Human Health and Social Work Activities is 8.7 percentage points higher than Public Administration and Defence; Compulsory Social Security. These figures show which industries local residents work in. They do not measure demand for financial advice or the number of advisers.
Gross median weekly pay was £589.9 in 2025. Gross disposable household income per head was £20,563 in 2024. The published average house price was £150,945 in June 2026. The self-employment rate among people in work is 10.6%, compared with 13.1% across Scotland. The figures come from different time periods and measure different things. They do not describe the finances of a typical household.
These population figures cover the Dundee City local authority area. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates 148,390 residents, with 18.8% aged 65 or over. The geography is the named council area; it should not be read as a separate total for Dundee.
The selected Companies House business categories contain 71 active registrations mapped to Dundee; the Dundee travel-to-work area contains 92. These figures count registered companies in the area. They do not show how many financial advisers work here, whether a company trades locally or whether it is FCA authorised.
Dundee. Photograph by Richard Szwejkowski. CC BY-SA 2.0.