This month's Retirement Planner Inquiry highlights the challenges advisers face when navigating the annuity market.
Friends Life has launched an annuity underwritten on savers' lifestyles, rather than specific medical conditions, in a bid to compete on the open market.
Pensioners should be able to switch their annuity contract in a similar way to switching mortgages, Steve Webb has said.
Alan Higham considers the potential alternatives to annuities in a retirement income strategy
Scottish Widows has launched an enhanced annuity as part of plans to increase its share of the wider annuity market by 10% over the next three years.
Scottish Widows is launching an enhanced annuity product.
iPipeline has launched an electronic common quotation form for annuities on its platform.
Hargreaves Lansdown has launched the ‘UK's first free' enhanced annuity search engine.
Scottish Widows' participation plans for the annuities market in 2013.