Annuity purchase requirement and ASPs to be scrapped - UPDATE 3

Helen Morrissey
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The government is set to scrap the requirement to purchase an annuity and abolish alternatively secured pensions.

In an HM Treasury consultation on annuity reform - published today - the government said that, under the new regime, retirees would have the choice to go into either a capped drawdown system where ...

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