Guaranteed Pension Annuity

Guaranteed Pension Annuity is Prudential's conventional pension annuity which guarantees to pay your clients a regular income usually for life. When your clients purchase a Guaranteed Pension Annuity, there are three different income options to choose from. Income can always stay the same, go up each year by a fixed percentage, or match yearly changes in inflation by being linked to the Retail Prices Index (RPI).

For each of the following income options, the minimum investment is £10,000 after any tax-free cash has been taken*.

1 - Income always stays the same

This option could give your client a higher initial income but no protection against inflation is offered, which could reduce your clients' spending power in the future.

Offers the highest starting income at a known level - allowing your client to know exactly how much they will get.

2 - Income increases yearly by a pre-determined fixed percentage

Your client can select a yearly increase of up to 8.5%. The higher the rate of increase the lower the initial income would be.

Provides a known level of income with fixed yearly increases. This may help protect your clients' income against the effects of inflation.

3 - Income changes each year in line with inflation

This option links changes in your clients' income to the Retail Prices Index (RPI). Initial income will be lower than with a level annuity (option 1).

Aims to protect your clients' income from the effects of inflation. For an extra cost at the start, you can choose a "negative inflation" guarantee so income wouldn't go down for any periods where inflation falls below zero.

Options available
Many options are available on our Guaranteed Pension Annuity

• Guaranteed period (up to 10 years, 5 years for Protected Rights**)
• Single or Joint-life
• Frequency of payments (Monthly/Quarterly/Half-yearly/Yearly)
• In advance or in arrears payments

Enhanced terms
Also, if your clients have an illness, condition or lifestyle habit that may shorten their life expectancy, you may be able to secure for them an Enhanced Guaranteed Pension Annuity which could typically provide payouts of up to 29% higher.

Risk factors
Inflation can reduce the spending power of your clients' income in the future, especially if they choose a level income.

If your client chooses an inflation-proofed income (through an RPI-linked annuity) and inflation falls below zero, their income will go down, unless they choose the negative inflation guarantee.

Choosing fixed yearly increases, or inflation-proofing annuity, will mean they will need to accept a lower starting income.

Why choose Prudential?
We're one of the UK's leading pension annuity providers. We are currently paying over £2 billion*** in pension income each year to more than 1 million people^#.

We're financially strong and we're one of only a few companies awarded an AA (stable) rating from Standard & Poor's^## and an Aa2 rating from Moody's^###. Standard & Poor's and Moody's are leading financial ratings companies and these financial strength ratings are amongst the highest you can get.

Established in 1848, we're one of the country's best known financial institutions, and one of the UK's leading providers of private retirement income.

For more information or simply to request a quotation, call us on 0808 234 5100 (option 1) or email our team at pruannuities.contactquotes@prudential.co.uk.

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*There is no minimum annuity investment if your client buys the annuity from the proceeds of a Prudential pension.
** From 6 April 2012, the government has announced these rules will no longer apply and you can choose the options that suit your personal circumstances.
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