November 2009 Archive
Get the best pension annuity rates with UK postcode pension annuities
Did you know some people get the best pension annuity rates with UK postcode pension annuities. Look at a small town in Scotland, Kilbirnie, with a population of around 8,000, which has a lot of undertakers. Three firms of funeral directors are on the Main Street, outnumbering the banks and grocery shops. By cruel coincidence the Scottish town holds [...]
Eligible for enhanced annuity rates or impaired life annuity rates?
Do you know if you’re eligible for enhanced annuity rates or impaired life annuity rates? Rates that can really boost your pension annuity income. For all the criticism of the ways in which poor value pension annuities are foisted on unsuspecting retirees, we are yet to see a legal challenge on the matter. Interesting, though, because a successful [...]
The open market option; getting the best UK pension annuity rates
The open market option; getting the best UK pension annuity rates, is proving to be a communications challenge in the pension annuity arena. We need to help people engage much better with their important retirement decisions. Agencies have been lobbied, the likes of the Association of British Insurers (ABI) and the Department of Work and Pensions [...]
Open market option, PICA, and finding the best UK pension annuity rates
The open market option, PICA, and finding the best UK pension annuity rates, is an important development in the UK pension and annuity market. The emergence of the Pension Income Choice Association (shortened to PICA) has been well received by an industry desperate to help retirees become more engaged with their at-retirement options. While there have been [...]
Help needed to get the UK best pension annuity rates
In the UK, there is help needed to get the UK best pension annuity rates for the hundreds of thousands of people retiring with a pension annuity each year.We have had the choice of single life and joint life annuities, level, escalating, or inflation proofed for many years now but in addition we now have temporary annuities, annuities with [...]
Smaller pension funds and getting the best pension annuity rates
Small pension funds and getting the best pension annuity rates is becoming a concern in the pension and annuity industry. While increasing uptake of the open market option (OMO) will do a lot to improve many people’s retirement income there are concerns for smaller funds, especially when you consider that the average pension fund in the UK still stands [...]
Enhanced annuity and impaired life annuity rates provider makes appointment
Enhanced annuity and impaired life annuity rates provider makes appointment. Partnership Assurance have appointed David Harvey to spearhead their enhanced and impaired life annuity drive in workplace annuities. He will take on the responsibilities of director of corporate pensions development, to (logically) develop the company’s presence in the corporate pensions arena. Harvey, joining from Axa Corporate Benefits, where he was [...]
UK pension annuity rates at record lows
Unfortunately, we are currently seeing UK pension annuity rates at record lows. The opportunity of getting a good retirement income have taken a bit of a blow of late as news indicates that pension annuity rates have hit an all time low. A pension annuity is effectively a guaranteed income for life paid by an insurance company (the annuity [...]
Brits told to use the open market option for the best UK pension annuity rates
Shop around for those pension annuities. Brits told to use the open market option for the best UK pension annuity rates. Those individuals reaching retirement age in the UK should look at all the retirement options available to them when it comes to turning their pension fund into an annuity. This message comes from leading enhanced annuity rates [...]
Give your child a £1m pension fund to spend on the best UK annuity rates
Make your child a millionaire. Give your child a £1m pension fund to spend on the best UK annuity rates when they reach their retirement annuity buying age. Children do cost a small fortune to run, so to speak, and the costs do seem to go on forever. Therefore, saving for a child’s retirement more than fifty to [...]