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Matt Trott talks to Retirement Planner about how the annuity market will develop over the coming years and how the Age 75 rule will affect it

Matt Trott is head of annuities at LV=. He has almost 20 years experience working in the ­retirement sector of financial services, firstly with National Mutual Life, and then moving to GE Life and LV=. Since 2004, he has been focused on promoting enhanced annuities and helped build the industry’s first online enhanced annuity quotation facility with GE Life. He has since worked hard to increase awareness of enhanced annuities and improve the take-up of the Open Market Option generally. As head of annuities for LV=, Trott is now ­responsible for the ­development and delivery of the LV=...

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