This photograph taken on 24 March, 2025 shows a view inside the Euronext Brussels Exchange. European stock markets and global oil prices tanked on 4 April, 2025, extending a rout as investors fret over the impact of US president Donald Trump's tariffs. Photograph: Hatim Kaghat/Belga/AFP/Getty Images

Tell us: have your pension savings been affected by turbulent stock markets?

We’re interested to hear how people’s invested pension savings have been faring amid sharp ups and downs in recent months and years, and how this may affect them

US president Donald Trump’s trade war, political elections and societal shifts ushering in dramatic change and dire public finances in multiple countries, the war in Ukraine and the Covid pandemic have been creating tumultous conditions on international markets for the past few years.

We’d like to hear how people’s invested pension savings have been affected by this series of economic shocks. Has your invested portfolio sustained big losses, or have you enjoyed staggering stock market gains? How may you and your plans be affected by it all? Tell us.

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