Gender neutral rate switch will lead to surge in individually underwritten annuities

Jonathan Stapleton
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The introduction of gender neutral annuity pricing will lead to an increase in the number of people looking to buy individually underwritten annuities, LV= says.

In March 2011 the European Court of Justice ruled that insurers can no longer price products based on gender. As a result, all insurers were forced to scrap gender-specific pricing by 21 December 2...

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