Annuity/equity mix may prove best retirement portfolio
Analysis suggests annuity/equity strategy will suit longer-lived better than bonds and equities
Annuity
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Royal London offering ‘substantial’ cash for annuity guarantees
Royal London is worried pension holders are “throwing away” their guaranteed annuity rate (GAR) under the new pension freedoms and it wants to offer them cash for the promised return.
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Pensioners risk turning their retirement stream into a flood
Retirees in drawdown are at risk of running out of money in retirement, as a third have no investment experience and two in five are not getting any financial advice or guidance, research from Zurich UK has found.
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Phoenix offers some annuity holders one-off payment
Phoenix Life customers with small annuities in payment will be able to exchange the regular income they receive for a one-off taxable lump sum.
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Drawdown sales hammer annuities
There has been a dramatic move away from annuities to income drawdown following the pension freedoms, data published by the Financial Conduct Authority shows.
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Canada Life buys annuity provider Retirement Advantage
Canada Life, the UK arm of international financial services group GreatWest Lifeco, has agreed to buy specialist annuity provider Retirement Advantage for an undisclosed sum, the company announced in a statement.
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UK retirement income down 46% since the financial crash
People retiring now must cope with pension income that is 46% lower than they could have expected had they retired immediately before the global financial crisis, analysis from Fidelity International has found.
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Drawdown beats annuities but pension cash is king
More than half of UK pension pots accessed for the first time were withdrawn entirely as cash lump sums in Q3 2016. Drawdown proved twice as popular as annuities but a fall in the number of people seeking advice before making pension decisions has some in the industry concerned.
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UK tax office warns on two tax avoidance schemes
HM Revenue & Customs has warned of a new disguised remuneration tax avoidance scheme that uses payment via annuities as a means to avoid income tax and national insurance contributions (NICs).
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Guaranteed retirement income products may not be worth it
Retirement income products with guarantees, offered by many life companies in the UK as an alternative to the old fashioned annuity, do not offer value for money in most cases, according to a study by Milliman, an international consultancy group.
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Prudential may divide UK and Asia units amid reported review
Prudential has kicked off a review of its £45bn ($57.2bn, €53.6bn) pension liabilities business in a move that could see the break up of its UK, US and Asian operations.
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Muted response to FCA plans on shopping around for annuities
Proposals from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) that would require annuity providers to tell customers what they could gain by shopping around and switching have been met with muted enthusiasm.