Annuities

Retirement Planner's round-up of the top pension stories this week.

In this week's quick fire poll we ask: Are you clients taking a blended approach to retirement planning?

More than 30% of people aged over 60 are confused about annuities, research conducted by Age UK has found.

Andrew Tully asks how advisers need to take gender neutral pricing of annuities into their advice process.

Fewer people are saving long term as covering current costs gets harder, according to AXA's Big Money Index 2012.

FIVE THINGS

FIVE THINGS

Difficult conditions in the income drawdown market mean some clients can now get more income from a standard annuity. Helen Morrissey looks at what this means for the industry

CHALK & CHEESE

A boost in individual annuities and with-profits bonds sales helped Prudential UK maintain new business levels in the first half of this year, despite a significant decrease in corporate pensions volumes.