What will you value in retirement?
Retirement is about more than income. PenFit™ starts with what matters to you and shows how different retirement approaches line up with those priorities — including the compromises each one asks you to make.
There is no perfect pension.
Retirement values can pull in different directions. More certainty can mean less access. More flexibility can mean less security. Keeping pension wealth can mean accepting more uncertainty.
So why might nothing score 100%?
100% would mean a design delivered everything you value without meaningful compromise. In practice, retirement choices involve trade-offs, so even the approach that lines up best with you may not reach 100%.
Is the DC pension pot you are thinking about more than £10,000?
PenFit is designed for pots where there are likely to be meaningful retirement choices to compare.
We’ll show you 12 simple pairs of statements.
For each pair, choose which statement matters more to you — and how much more. There are no right or wrong answers.
How the A and B choices work
Choose between these two statements
Happy with your answers?
You can change any answer before you submit. PenFit™ treats these as evidence about what matters to you — not as product choices.
How the six pension approaches line up with what matters to you
What does the score mean?
The percentage shows how closely each pension approach matches the things you told us matter to you. Higher means a closer fit.
It is not a return forecast, probability of success or product recommendation. The top result is not rebased to 100%.
The highest score is your closest fit — not a perfect answer.
Retirement choices involve real trade-offs. The gap that remains shows where even the closest approach cannot deliver everything you value at the same time.
Your life changes — so may your priorities.
PenFit is a snapshot of what matters to you today. Not happy with the result? Run PenFit again — and rerun it as your priorities change.
See how your pension options compare
PenFit™ has compared retirement approaches first. A live scheme version could now show which options in your own pension use the same approach.
Often called drawdown
Often provided through an annuity
May be provided through a collective pension or CDC
What a live scheme version could do
Instead of these examples, this page could show the names of the actual retirement options offered by the individual's pension scheme and explain which PenFit™ pension approach each option most closely corresponds to.