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Pensioner bonds go on sale

Open-access content Thursday 15th January 2015 — updated 5.50pm, Wednesday 29th April 2020

Pensioner bonds, announced by the chancellor in his March Budget, are now on sale through National Savings & Investment (NS&I).

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Formally known as the 65+ Guaranteed Growth Bonds, George Osborne pledged in his budget that the bonds would offer far better rates than current bonds on the open market.

The bonds issued today pays a 2.8% gross annual interest rate over a one-year term and a 4% interest rate over a three-year term - before tax. Fixed rates are guaranteed for the whole term, with interest added on each anniversary. This compares to the current best one-year bonds on the market which pays 1.85% interest and the top three-year bond offers 2.51%.

The bonds are only available to people aged 65 and over to invest in.

Investments are limited to £10,000 per bond per person, so each saver can invest a total of £20,000. Couples can hold bonds jointly.

The bonds are expected to be on sale for months, NS&I said and it urged savers not to rush to invest.

'We're really pleased to be starting the New Year by offering the 65+ Bonds to support older savers,' Jane Platt, NS&I chief executive, said.

She encouraged all savers to apply online saying it would be the quickest and easiest way to invest 'and will provide immediate assurance that an application has been received'.

Osborne reiterated on Twitter this morning that the government bonds would pay savers 'the best market rates' and that he was 'supporting savers as part of [the Conservatives'] long term economic plan'. 

This article appeared in our January 2015 issue of The Actuary.
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