Category Archives: Open market option
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 …
17
2012
It is probably fair to suggest that many people are losing out on their pension annuity income because some well known, and household names, annuity providers – insurance companies – are luring you into taking a pension annuity from them …
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 …
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 …
05
2012
Make sure you shop around for your pension annuity when you arrange your important retirement income. You need to understand precisely what type of income will best suit you, remembering you could get a lot more if you have certain lifestyle or medical conditions. According …
04
2012
Pension annuity rates continue to be in freefall. MGM Advantage’s recent research shows pension annuity rates have fallen about 10% since June 2009, and that’s a lot in such a relatively short time period. Data in the MGM Advantage Annuity Index illustrates that average …
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 …


