Enhancing clients' income

Helen Morrissey
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Helen Morrissey goes through the latest results on the enhanced annuity market and asks what challenges advisers face when recommending these products to clients.

The enhanced annuity market has undergone massive growth over the past five years and looks set to go on growing into the future. However, despite this, concerns persist that not everyone who could qualify for an enhancement is necessarily getting one. In this Retirement Planner Inquiry we asked advisers how much they are recommending enhanced annuities to their clients and whether awareness needs to be raised further.  As with previous Retirement Planner Inquiries, we sent out an email questionnaire to our readers. We received responses from 178 readers. The first question we aske...

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