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Alternatives to Enforced Pension Annuity

Submitted on Wednesday 10th October 2012

Published on Thursday 11th October 2012

Current status: Closed

Closed: Thursday 11th April 2013

Signatures: 4

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Economy ~ Pensions

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Alternatives to Enforced Pension Annuity

Additional Information

A consequence of QE to stimulate the economy is further decline of Annuity rates for the current crop of retirees. Rates have fallen from 15% in the 90's to less than 5% today, and yet we now auto-enrol workers into these failing pension schemes.
Other petitioners have proposed State backed annuities might offset some of the damage caused by State sponsored QE. This proposal is for a wider (and urgent) debate about making alternatives to annuities available to retirees. This could be win-win for the right solution.
For example, leveraging pension pots into the house-building market as an investment with a return, liberates a stagnant financial resource into an area likely to trigger economic growth. This might be via buy-to-let, which many have embraced instead of personal pensions, or a stake in a housing trust with defined return. [This differs from proposals to leverage parental pension funds as guarantees on mortgages of offspring, as it generates pension income.]


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