Annuities

Should pension providers be forced to offer the full range of freedom and choice products to consumers? Natasha Browne investigates

Could freedom and choice help deferred annuities make a comeback?

Pensions minister Ros Altmann should focus on three areas to improve UK schemes over the next five years says Tor Financial managing director David Harris.

New pensions minister Ros Altmann has said she is hopeful existing annuitants will get the opportunity to sell their right to an income for a lump sum

Annuities have become the new focus for complaints according to figures from the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS), a year after the product was publicly abandoned by the Chancellor.

Just Retirement and Partnership have seen sales of individual annuities collapse in the months running up to the introduction of the pension freedoms.

Legal & General (L&G) has generated a 'record' £330m in cash in the first quarter of the year as changes to its business following the pension reforms paid off.

PP looks at warnings from the OECD about the UK's direction of travel

Advisers are warning the message on pension reforms has been misunderstood after experiencing a surge in interest from people looking to cash in their annuities.

BlackRock has launched its first drawdown offering for pension schemes to capitalise on the Budget freedoms introduced earlier this month.