When your investment in your pension plan reaches maturity, you’ll need to transfer its accumulated value into a regular income for the remainder of your retirement. This can be achieved by purchasing a pension annuity – a simple and straight forward transaction that exchanges the value of your pension fund into which you have been paying a regular income.

While the principle of a pension annuity is seemingly very straight forward, however, things are rarely quite as simple as they seem.

The most critical aspect of buying a pension annuity is that it is a long-term, one-off commitment. You only have one shot at it, as there is no going back and asking for a refund of all of the capital simply because you have found a better deal elsewhere. Therefore, it is very important that you make the right choice.

Making the right choice is made harder due to the fact that a host of different annuities all offer a host of different annuity rates – i.e. will offer same amount of pension investment  for a different level of income.

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