Monthly Archives: January 2012
31
2012
You shouldn’t wait for the ABI’s new code of conduct for annuity sales if you’re looking for a higher annuity income. Many thousands of people risk a poorer retirement while the financial services industry wavers over finding better ways to help turn hard earned pension …
30
2012
When you retire it’s important you get the best annuity rates if you’re buying an annuity, and you’ve got friends in high places to help. Campaigner Baroness Greengross is going to lobby senior Government ministers about various concerns that people with smaller …
29
2012
Research shows that annuity rates fell by close to 8% during the course of 2011. As if this isn’t bad enough a recent Prudential study finds that around 25% of new pensioners actually retire in debt. Yes, retirement incomes for …
28
2012
When you come to retire, should you delay buying a pension annuity? Pension annuity rates have dropped in recent months and years and with stockmarkets around the world still unpredictable, pension investors approaching their retirement may wonder whether they should put off buying a pension …
27
2012
Pensioners are still suffering in retirement despite the inflation drop: MGM Advantage, enhanced annuity specialists, state. December’s slight fall in inflation didn’t go anywhere near far enough to help financially struggling pensioners and their cash-strapped households, Aston Goodey, sales and …
26
2012
Some good news on the annuity rates front. Gilts prices are falling and gilt yields are climbing. Unfortunately, this was after the worse than feared drop in the UK economy was revealed earlier yesterday. Following the 0.2% dip in the economy, which …
25
2012
New rules from the EU and the ongoing European debt crisis threatens pensions and pension annuities here in the UK. The problems come from fresh directives which require insurance companies to hold greater reserves and the fact that they can’t carry on using gender to calculate …
24
2012
Annuity rates are still dropping. Indeed, some industry experts are suggesting that annuity rates are in freefall, they’ve dropped that much. Annuity rates have actually fallen around 9.3% over the past three years, meaning significantly less money for people about to …
24
2012
When it comes to buying a pension annuity, there is more to shopping around than just the price, you also need to get the right type of pension annuity. Pension annuities have long been the bedrock for retirement incomes, but now …
23
2012
Annuity rates are directly effected by gilt yields, and these yields have fallen to yet another record low as investors’ ongoing appetite for UK debt stays strong with the continuing eurozone woes we are witnessing currently. During recent trading, yields on …


