Pensions  

Shopping around

Billy Burrows is head of business development at Annuity Line

Key points

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* The ABI has just published a comprehensive data set of annuity rates from a wide range of annuity providers.

* For enhanced annuities the difference between top and bottom is 23 per cent

* The ABI appears to be doing little to encourage policyholders to consider options other than the conventional guaranteed annuity.