RP Poll: Should providers offer a default retirement income option?

Jenna Towler
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In the latest Retirement Planner poll we ask readers to share their opinion on whether providers should offer consumers a default retirement income option…

Pensions Policy Institute research, released on Thursday, indicated retirees were ‘daunted’ by number of options available to them under pension freedoms and wanted providers to offer a default retirement income option. Some consumers even thought it was providers’ duty to offer a default. To share your opinion on the subject VOTE HERE. In the last RP Poll were asked readers to share their opinions on Steve Webb's plan to allow retirees to sell their annuity contract for cash. Advisers were distinctly unsure about the pension minister’s plan to sell annuity contracts in retirement...

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