Category Archives: Important considerations
19
2012
Arriving at the best annuity rate to apply to your hard earned pension fund at retirement to calculate your vital post-retirement income is complicated. Look at the various factors involved in the calculation; interest rates have to be considered, as does inflation, how …
19
2012
It could be said that the pension annuities, which provide your important income in retirement, are recession free purchase. Why do I say this? Because you aren’t actually handing over any of your hard earned cash to buy the annuity. Yes, you are …
18
2012
It is probably worth telling you how this online pension annuity service actually works and how it might be a bit different from other annuity websites. The marketing of the annuity service is done via the website, so all you need to know …
16
2012
We should stand up for annuities and annuity rates more and my thanks and support go to Billy Burrows for his recent article on annuity rates. He suggests that you can hardly turn on the television or pick up a newspaper these …
15
2012
It’s possible that millions of people in the UK could see their pension annuities plummet in what is being called a £3billion scandal. The rip-off by ruthless insurance companies means payouts for workers in private sector company arrangements are likely to fall by as …
10
2012
There are warnings over data protection issues when shopping around for a pension annuity, with emphasis on an enhanced annuity which pays out a higher retirement income if you have any health or lifestyle issues to take into consideration. Submission of …
09
2012
This is a brief guide to pension annuities. I am providing this because the upheavals of the financial markets we have been witnessing of late have made the whole at-retirement market much more fraught. It is aimed at providing answers to common …
07
2012
The mortality rate both in England and Wales continued to improve in 2011, resulting in warning of a knock-on effect on your pension annuity. The number of deaths actually fell to about 484,000 last year, the third year in a row …
07
2012
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) must ensure that insurance companies should encourage retirees towards specialist annuity advice at retirement, the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) has just stated. The NAPF was giving its response to an ABI consultation …
06
2012
The way pension annuities are sold is costing many thousands of retirees around £1bn in lost vital future pension income, a recent report by the National Association of Pension Funds (known as NAPF) claims. The NAPF said that the difficulty lay …


