The firm surveyed experts in the pension and annuity industry including product and service providers, retirement planning consultants, employee benefit consultants, regulators and influential bodies and found that some 58% believed pensioners would increasingly rely on buy-to-let.
Some 82% agreed that equity release would also increasingly form a part of a retirement portfolio for those who are exhausting other forms of retirement income.
Nigel Pearce, life and pensions director at Equiniti, said: “Equity release looks certain to be a key part of retirement and long-term care financing.
“From a pension and annuity provider’s perspective this also means that it’s the perfect opportunity for innovation in product design taking the features of buy-to-let and equity release that the public like and develop their own products that have similar appeal.”
