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...Legal & General’s latest standard annuity rate is 6.45 per cent, 30 per cent higher than it was in April 2022. But annuity sales fell by a shock 14 per cent....
...It pairs a “target date” fund, which lets workers pick when they want to retire and automatically invests their contributions in a changing combination of stocks and bonds, with an optional annuity that...
...The bounty continued investing in the company’s annuities until they reached a peak in 1777, when they were worth £406,942, or roughly £724mn now....
...The number of schemes trying to get ready for such deals — last year a record £50bn of bulk annuity deals were agreed — has led to steep discounts on some assets, said investment advisers....
...As a low-risk alternative, he suggests using money market or gilt funds within your pension. 5....
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...“All EU regulators are really down on PE fund owners right now,” said one insurance executive....
...Companies looking to do these so-called bulk annuity deals need to make the assets as attractive as possible to potential buyers....
...Before then, they mostly had to buy annuities. Bond-heavy annuity funds hedged that liability as retirement approached....
...Should my husband buy an annuity? My husband has an adequate pension fund invested in very low-risk equities. He is 73, very healthy, and has no immediate plans to retire....
...to fund this level of withdrawals....
...some analysts who expected a continuity candidate with knowledge of L&G’s investment engine, which includes financing projects such as build-to-rent properties that can then be packaged up in investment funds...
...Annuity capital is not permanent capital. PE firms raising capital by selling annuities have to worry about maturity mismatches....
...Annuities such as those offered by A-Cap are typically backed by low risk investments in liquid securities, because policyholders are often able to redeem funds, subject to penalties....
...London-based PIC has more than 300,000 policyholders amassed through so-called bulk annuity deals, where it takes over pension fund liabilities and the assets backing them from their sponsoring companies...
...Zurich, one of Europe’s biggest insurers, struck a deal to sell its German legacy life insurance back book — including annuity and endowment products — to Viridium in 2022....
...Employers’ access to billions of pounds of surpluses in UK company pension funds would be eased under proposals set out by the government on Friday....
...access our funds — yet few can afford professional advice....
...The appeal of annuities lies in their predictability. But in an era of high interest rates, distant cash flows are suddenly less valuable....
...Basically, Fishman thinks that their dramatic growth — he estimates their overall AUM at ca $400bn if you include products like variable annuities — means they “a stabilising influence”, but that their importance...
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