Brexit: Could annuities return to gender-based pricing?

Mike Morrison looks at the issues

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Self-professed pensions geek Mike Morrison also has legal leanings. Here he looks at the ripple effects of Brexit on pensions law and asks if annuity gender neutrality still stands...

As well as being a bit of a pensions geek I am also a bit of a legal geek. (Before accidentally falling into financial services and pensions, the nearest to a career plan I had was possibly becoming a lawyer.) I am not really sure why, but a few years ago, having done a few pension exams, I went back to law and did an LLM degree in European Law, and to finish it off did a dissertation entitled The effect of EU Law on UK pension Law. In the light of recent events, I thought it would be an interesting document to revisit! Obviously, we are still in the European Union (EU) until we tr...

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