| Feature | Income Choice Annuity | Guaranteed Pension Annuity - our conventional pension annuity |
Purchased Life Annuity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Level Income | Fixed Rate Increasing Income*** | |||
| Offers the potential to benefit from investment growth | ||||
| Pays an income for life. | ||||
| Provides a fixed (known) amount of income for life. | ||||
| Could help protect against the effects of inflation. | ||||
| Provides some ongoing flexibility to choose the level of income | ||||
| Income is guaranteed not to fall.** | ||||
| Your client can get an enhanced income if your client has a health and/or lifestyle condition. * | ||||
| Can be purchased on a single or Joint-Life basis. | ||||
| Can choose a Payment Guarantee Period. | ||||
| Can convert to a Guaranteed Pension Annuity (conventional pension annuity). | n/a | n/a | n/a | |
| Minimum pension fund value required
(after any tax free cash has been taken) |
£10,000 | £10,000† | £10,000† | £30,000 |
| Type of Commission | Initial or annual commission or a combination of both |
Initial |
Initial |
Initial |
| Read more | Read more | Read more | Read more | |
* Only available for funds greater than £10,000 after any tax-free cash has been taken.
** With our Income Choice Annuity we guarantee never to pay you less than a certain
amount, known as the Secure Level.
*** There are other escalation options available which we are happy to discuss.
† For existing Prudential pension customers there is no minimum pension fund value.