Income

Recent fluctuations in the housing market mean people can no longer look with certainty at using their property to fund retirement. David Millar discusses the situation

Maureen Duckworth goes through the issues surrounding recycling tax free cash

A free guide for IFAs on the third way retirement product market has been launched.

Income drawdown has become the flexible solution sought by many in their post working life. From a standing start in the mid-1990s, this year, drawdown accounts for over 21% of new funds earmarked to provide retirement income.

Living Time, the AIG-backed UK annuities company, has stressed it is very much "business as usual" at the firm despite the troubles surrounding its American parent company.

Just Retirement, the specialist UK life assurance group focusing on the provision of financial services to those at or in retirement, has announced a rise in total sales of 12.8% for the year ended 30 June 2008.

A pilot study examining the popularity of annuities priced on common health risks is being launched by Legal & general (L&G).

Annuity rates may have reached a "tipping point" and retirees should begin to consider using the open market option (OMO), Alexander Forbes says.

The Prudential has today taken on the liabilities of a £1bn final salary scheme in what is being called the largest deal of its kind ever in the UK.

Adam Wrench examines the annuitisation process and asks how much will there really is within the industry to make real changes