Category Archives: Annuities for smokers
15
2008
Norwich Union has displaced Aegon Scottish Equitable as the firm offering the most competitive level pension annuity rate, according to recent comparative tables. The company has improved its level annuity rate by £140 since June – to £7,150 per year for …
06
2008
You are probably looking at this website because you are looking to buy pension annuities, but do you know enough? Anyone currently paying money into a personal, stakeholder or money purchase pension scheme will probably have to buy a pension annuity to fund …
01
2008
Some recent research by Watson Wyatt, specialist actuaries, suggests enhanced annuity sales topping £1bn for first time in 2007. This a 35% jump in the take up of the enhanced annuity product between 2006 and 2007. Enhanced Annuities provide people …
26
2008
The UK annuities market has tripled in size in the last 15 years. It is the largest market in the world with nearly 300,000 new annuity contracts written in 2005 and premiums totalling around £8 billion. It is at the forefront …
26
2008
A pension annuity is almost a personal calculation of your own longevity. If there’s a history in your family of people not lasting long after they’ve retired, then go for the level rate annuity and see if you can ramp …
25
2008
It would appear that pension annuities will start to be provided on much more of an individual basis…like underwriting life insurance. This should lead to more competitive annuity quotes and be better for the retiree. As an example, Norwich Union is …
21
2008
Here we highlight your choice of annuities: First, you have single-level annuities. These are the simplest type of annuity. They pay out exactly the same amount to an individual (the “annuitant”) every month until the annuitant dies. Guaranteed annuities pay out …
21
2008
Here’s a statistic; over the next five years there will be around three million people who will look to turn their pension fund into pension annuities income to help see them through retirement. Looking at another statistic, unless the Financial Services Authority (FSA) takes decisive …
20
2008
We are keen at to ensure that as many individuals as possible reaching retirement obtain the best pension annuity. With us you can access the best annuity quotes, and ultimately the best annuity rate for your valuable pension income. What follows is …
14
2008
The easy answer to this headline is ‘yes’. You want your pension annuity to give you a healthy retirement income. You want the best annuity rates leading to the best annuity quote, and you are bothering to shop around. Excellent, but …


