Industry rebuffs Webb proposal 'to sell annuities for cash'

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Pensions minister Steve Webb's bid to allow annuitants to sell their contracts in exchange for cash has been rejected by industry figures.

Webb told The Telegraph the proposal would help equalise the rights of the Budget freedoms for up to five million people who had bought an annuity before the reforms were announced. The plans, w...

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