Category Archives: Income drawdown
11
2012
Flexible drawdown is a viable alternative retirement solution for some, instead of buying a pension annuity at retirement. Currently it is a testing time for retirees, with the pain of falling UK gilt yields affecting those with capped drawdown arrangements, as they are suffering …
30
2011
Do you want flexibility with your retirement planning? If you do, income drawdown could be the right solution for you. Normally, pension holders can take a regular income from their pension fund between the ages of 55 and 74, as long as they …
22
2011
SIPP provider AJ Bell is suggesting that the government to reverse some of its income drawdown pension withdrawal reforms. Andy Bell, chief executive of AJ Bell, said the government should permit retirees to withdraw 120% of the equivalent annuity rate from their income drawdown …
16
2011
It’s time to force annuity buyers to shop around and find an open market option annuity for the best pension income. The Government must move quickly to make it compulsory for insurance companies to inform their customers that they can shop around for a …
13
2011
Why income drawdown? Income drawdown is arguably the most flexible way to take your pension benefits when you come to retire. The main difference to a pension annuity is that your pension fund remains invested after you retire and you simply take …
12
2011
In respect of a short term annuity, MetLife became the sole distributor for the Living Time annuity in February 2011, following its acquisition of Alico the previous year. Now, as part of the integration of Alico, MetLife is to launch its own enhanced, MetLife …
07
2011
Should you take an annuity or income drawdown? Imagine that you had a £100,000 pension fund and took the maximum income from income drawdown 5 years ago of £6,000 per annum. If your pension fund tracked the FTSE 100 index, it would have fallen in value to around £88,000 …
06
2011
Retirees who chose income drawdown rather than a pension annuity to fund their retirement income face a cut of up to 40% in their pension income. This fall in pension payments is the result of a triple whammy effecting income drawdown: declines in the stockmarkets …
01
2011
Income Drawdown differs from a pension annuity because your pension fund remains invested and you simply take your income directly from it. This is the most flexible way to take your retirement income. If you’re not sure how and when you want to take …
29
2011
Do you want a guaranteed pension income? That’s what MetLife offer with their Retirement Portfolio. The MetLife Retirement Portfolio is a personal pension plan. But to make it fit each client’s specific circumstances and aspirations, it offers a range of additional …
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