Help needed to improve UK pension annuity rates and quotes
Help needed to improve UK pension annuity rates and quotes. The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) has called on the government to skew the issuing of gilts towards long-dated gilts and index-linked gilts. NAPF’s pre-budget report submission said such a move by the UK government would reduce pension fund deficits and cut the scale of overall pension fund [...]
Better UK annuity rates, bigger pension fund; buy your pension annuity early
Better UK annuity rates, bigger pension fund; buy your pension annuity early before pension annuity rates fall back or we see another blow to the stockmarkets around the world. The big rises in the stockmarket this year are allowing people to consider retiring earlier than they had previously feared, new research from Mercer, the consultancy, shows. Employees with [...]
Hopefully UK pension annuity rates in 2010 will improve
Hopefully UK pension annuity rates in 2010 will improve, as the changes over the past ten years have been pretty deplorable. Pension annuity incomes have really fallen back over this past decade. All this according to a recent KPMG report. In that period, the average pension scheme only managed to grow its fund value by just over 2.25% per [...]
IFA’s lose interest in finding best UK pension annuity rates for 2010
IFA’s lose interest in finding best UK pension annuity rates for 2010. Independent financial advisers (IFAs) are losing interest in offering retirement savings products as more flexible options become increasingly important, according to research from Defaqto. Its research suggests the number of IFA’s who see pre-retirement savings products as their major focus has dropped this year. Defaqto says clients are [...]
Best UK pension annuity rates alerts earlier
Best UK pension annuity rates alerts earlier. There are to be earlier wake-up retirement calls, suggests the Association of British Insurers (ABI). They are encouraging insurance companies (annuity providers) to contact customers close to retirement a little earlier than the current four to six months under new updated guidance on wake-up packs. These updated wake-up packs provide more [...]
Smoker annuity rates could be the best annuity rates for you
Smoker annuity rates could be the best annuity rates for you. How? Well, quite simply, the easy answer is you must be a smoker to get a smoker annuity rates. When you decide to buy your retirement income you take your pension fund (probably after taking your tax free cash) and approach an insurance company (annuity provider) to [...]
Enhanced annuity rates provider to offer annuity rates to partners
Enhanced annuity rates provider to offer annuity rates to partners. Just Retirement says it is close to agreeing certain new deals to provide enhanced annuities to the customers of up to nine firms, including insurance companies and closed life offices. Just Retirement, which was bought recently by private-equity firm Permira for just about £230m in September, has developed a [...]
Best annuity rates, the right pension annuity and the right annuity options important.
Best annuity rates are what matters at retirement. Every little extra helps. Selecting the right annuity and the right options is important. Take your time to find the best deal. With the right annuity rates you could have a richer retirement. Is that important to you? Some would say it’s the most important financial decision you’ll [...]
UK pension annuity rates to rise; The Pensions Advisory Service suggests
UK pension annuity rates to rise; The Pensions Advisory Service is suggesting. Annuity rates are expected to increase after the recent pre-Budget report sent the price of gilts falling. Recent retirees and those about to retire are currently facing some of the lowest annuity rates in history. However as the Bank of England moves towards a position of selling bonds as [...]
Spend more time looking for the best pension annuity rates than shopping
You really should spend more time looking for the best pension annuity rates than shopping, but apparently this is not the case. More time is spent Christmas shopping than annuity shopping, according to Aviva. Its research suggests that us Brits spend up to 26 times longer shopping for Christmas presents than we do looking for the best annuity rates for our retirement income. On average, [...]