Secondary Annuity Non-market

October 28, 2016

The Government has announced that plans for creating a secondary annuity market with effect from April 2017, have been scrapped.  Such a market would have allowed individuals who have bought annuities under Defined Contribution schemes to sell those annuities, either back to the insurance company that issued them or to a third party.  However, the industry had raised many issues that would impede the efficient working of such a market, not least keeping track of how long the original annuitant remains alive.

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