Income

Potential drawdown clients looking to keep their pension pot invested after April next year will be a "big target" for Standard Life, which earlier announced a near 60% drop in annuity margins for the first half of the year.

Annuity margins at insurer Standard Life were down 59% in the first half of the year due to the sweeping changes to retirement income announced in the Budget, latest results show.

The guidance guarantee, if delivered as planned, will do little more than deter people from "doing stupid things" with their pension pots - it will not help them plan for their retirement, according to LEBC.

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BlackRock is working to "repurpose" its range of target date funds and introduce an income drawdown product in response to the liberalisation of defined contribution (DC) regulation.

Provider Aviva has dropped the £100 a year drawdown charge on its platform.

Annuity sales have dropped 43.8% year on year as retirees wait for pension freedoms to begin in April 2015, according to latest research.

Mutual LV= has reported strong annuity sales for the second quarter of the year despite the sweeping changes to retirement income announced in the 2014 Budget.

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