Annuities

This week's Retirement Planner quick-fire poll asks: Do you believe falling annuity rates could have a bigger impact on clients' retirement income than the current market volatility?

Falling annuity rates could prove a greater long term risk than stock market volatility warns Key Retirement Solutions.

Higher annuity rates and volatile market conditions have dented retirement prospects for UK workers over the last few months, suggests research from Aon Hewitt.

Avelo has added Aviva's fixed term annuity to its product portal Exchange.

Fears about the markets following last week's sell-off and the US credit downgrade will no doubt dominate clients' concerns this week. However, the weekend papers also featured warnings about pension growth predictions and annuities, an analysis of absolute...

Annuity rates could hit their lowest point for two years as the sovereign debt crises hits gilt yields.

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Origen Retirement Solutions, the at-retirement arm of Aegon-owned advisory firm Origen Financial Services, has introduced a new system to speed up the annuity underwriting process.

Retirement Planner's round up of the week's key pension stories

RPI-linked annuities will count towards the minimum income requirement (MIR) for flexible drawdown, the final Finance Act 2011 has confirmed.