Annuities
Defined Contribution
The Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) has called for savers to be "automatically protected" in retirement by phasing them between drawdown and annuitisation.
23 March 2017
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3 min read
Defined Contribution
An index has been launched by IRESS to compare annuity yields against equities, cash ISAs and drawdown.
25 January 2017
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2 min read
Industry
The third quarter of 2016 saw new pension investments fall by £380m, bucking the trend of the previous two quarters.
19 December 2016
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2 min read
Defined Contribution
The OECD believes annuities are part of the solution to prevent people running out of money in retirement. Michael Klimes asks how viable this is in the era of Freedom and Choice
12 December 2016
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4 min read
Defined Contribution
Charges and poor returns can seriously reduce the amount of income people have in retirement. Michael Klimes looks at what can be done to help avoid these pitfalls.
07 November 2016
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4 min read
Law and Regulation
The government has decided to scrap its plans to create a market for secondary annuities.
19 October 2016
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3 min read
Defined Contribution
DWP's consultation into the future of NEST has generated some strongly contrasting responses about whether it should enter the at-retirement product market. Michael Klimes reports
10 October 2016
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8 min read
Defined Contribution
Sue Pemberton looks at how default fund design will need to evolve following Freedom and Choice.
06 October 2016
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4 min read
Defined Contribution
The number of people accessing regulated advice to purchase annuity and drawdown products fell in 2015 according to this year’s Future Book.
29 September 2016
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2 min read
