Three things clients may call you about this week

Three things clients may call you about this week

Carmen Reichman
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All eyes on pensions. Here is our weekly heads-up on the stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend...

  Annuity unfairness Annuities are contracts for life. But sometimes circumstances change dramatically immediately after a purchase is completed, which could result in thousands of pounds of extra income over the person's lifetime. But providers aren't always willing to renegotiate cases when cooling off periods have finished. The Sunday Telegraph looked at what happened when one pensioner found out he had been living with cancer just weeks after buying his annuity. MORE...

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