Annuities

The pensions industry would support a cap on exit fees for defined contribution (DC) savers, according to research from PP.

A secondary annuity market would help with hedging longevity risk in defined benefit (DB) pension schemes, experts say.

Most annuity holders would resist the urge to cash in their policies on a secondary market despite concerns people had got a bad deal from insurers, according to research.

Natasha Browne takes a look at some of the proposals for a successful secondary annuity market as the consultation closes

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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.