Annuities

IFAs may be pushed out of the market as consumers shop for pensions online, annuity administrator Xafinity Paymaster has warned.

Yet more gloomy news for the nation's savers...

Retirement Planner speaks to Andrew Tully about how recent reform is changing how people view their pensions.

Intelligent Pensions (IP) has launched a phased annuity service in a bid to help clients mitigate the risks of staying too long in drawdown.

Advisers say the abolition of the requirement to annuitise by age 75 is the best pension reform passed this year.

While lifetime annuities remain the most popular at-retirement product further innovation is needed to meet the needs of the market according to the Xafinity Annuity Industry Study.

Just Retirement has launched a new form of third way annuity with the first new capped drawdown product on the market since the new pension rules came into force.

In this month's Inquiry, Helen Morrissey assesses the results of our survey on the ­ at-retirement market and asks how the advent of flexible drawdown will affect the market

Matt Trott talks to Retirement Planner about how the annuity market will develop over the coming years and how the Age 75 rule will affect it

The new drawdown regime means clients can stay in drawdown indefinitely. However, Helen Morrissey says that clients could actually lose out on income by not annuitising at the right time