Just Retirement has said that it plans to enter the long-term care market within the next few months.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has said it is "open and neutral" on whether getting regulated advice when buying an annuity is necessary.
The consumer group which monitors financial services for the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has called for a review of the growing direct to consumer annuity market.
Providers should "show solidarity with advisers" rather than offer non-advised companies cheap deals on annuities, according to one Cheshire-based annuities specialist.
A pensioner who built up a pot worth almost £50,000 in a Virgin Money stakeholder pension has been left with just £15,000 after failing to buy an annuity before he turned 75.
In this annuity-themed quick fire poll we ask: Should the Open Market Option be mandatory for all annuitants?
Splitting a pension pot by blending annuities could increase retirement income by around £2,175, according to research from LV=.
A parliamentary select committee has called for government and regulators to make the Open Market Option ‘mandatory' at annuity purchase.
Pension providers who automatically increase clients' drawdown income to 120% GAD could push clients into a higher tax bracket warns Hornbuckle Mitchell.