New customer looking to apply?
Existing customer looking to change your AVC contributions?
It’s never too early or too late to think about the difference you could make to your lifestyle later in life. In addition to your teachers’ pension scheme, Additional Voluntary Contributions (AVCs) could be just the thing to help your pension savings go further.
Watch the videos below to find out how having an AVC plan alongside your teachers' pension scheme could help you.
AVCs are investments and the value of your fund can go down as well as up, so you might get back less than you put in.
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Understanding AVCs
Default
(if available)
If you’d rather not make your own investment choice this option could be for you. The default investment fund may be a single fund or a lifestyle option.
Lifestyle strategy
(if available)
A ready-made investment strategy managed by us, for you. There are different lifestyle options to choose from to suit your retirement plans, but all aim to protect the value of your investment from large fluctuations as you approach retirement.
Manage your own
If you’re comfortable choosing your own funds, you can choose up to 10 from the risk rated funds available. This could be a good choice if you’re happy being in charge of your investments and fully understand the risks involved.
2. Find out more to help you decide
- It's important you understand these options so that you're invested in a way that suits your retirement plans.
- Check your Fund Guide and watch our Understanding your investment options video for more information. Or if you want information on a particular fund, click on the fund name in your Fund Guide to go to the fund factsheet.
These options aren’t a recommendation from Prudential. If you’re still unsure, you should speak to your financial adviser if you have one. If you don't have one, you can search for an independent financial adviser in your area by visiting unbiased.co.uk
3. Choose your investment option
- You need to choose an investment option before you apply. But don't worry, you can change how you’re invested at any time using our online service.
AVCs are investments and the value of your fund can go down as well as up, so you might get back less than you put in.
Keep track of your investments online
Our online service allows you to keep track and manage your investments whenever you like. By registering, you'll be able to
- bullet check your plan value
- bullet see how your funds are performing
- bullet monitor your contributions and transactions
- bullet change how you're invested
- bullet change your AVC contributions
- bullet change your selected retirement age
- bullet change your personal and employer details
- bullet contact us securely.
Registering also means going paperless, though there are some documents not available online yet, so we’ll continue to send you those in the post while we work on expanding our online documents.
Register now for our online service.
Applying for an AVC plan
It takes approximately 15 minutes to apply online.
To apply, you'll need
- bullet your payslip and
- bullet to have chosen an investment option mentioned above.
You'll need to call us if
- bullet you want to exceed the £40,000 Annual Allowance or
- bullet you change employer in the future.
You need to read the documents below before you increase. They have important information about the charges, costs, risks and benefits of the product and the funds to help you make a decision.
To download and save and/or print these documents for future reference, you should ensure that you have a PDF file reader program installed - Adobe has a free reader.
Once we've processed your application, we'll post a letter to you with details of the first contribution from your salary. After you've got your confirmation letter you can register to manage your AVC contributions online.
Additional support
Once you’ve applied for an AVC plan, our AVC support team will be available to help you with any general enquiries. Please call
Lines are open Monday – Friday, 8.30am – 6.00pm.
You can also send us a secure message once you register for our online service.