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More than 13 years from using your savings consider…  Within 13 years of using your savings consider…

 Phase 1 (Growth phase)         Phase 1 (Growth) to Phase 2 (Pre-retirement phase)

 The Lifestyle choice you make will depend on your attitude to risk. You can change your investment choice at any time (see page 15).  The Pre-retirement choice you make will depend on how you plan to access your savings. See page 21 for more
                        information about your choices. You can select your Pre-retirement choice at any time (see page 15).

 Lifestyle    Aims to  Choose this option if you…  How your Member Account moves between    Lifestyle    Flexible  Annuity  Cash
 option  funds during the Growth phase  option
 Achieve growth through   …are happy to take a higher
 investing fully in equities   level of investment risk in
                                                                  Pre-retirement
 until 20 years before TRD.   order to achieve a potentially   Growth  Growth  Growth  Pre-retirement  Pre-retirement  Pre-retirement  Pre-retirement  Pre-retirement  Pre-retirement
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 then gradually moved into   20 years before your TRD.  90%  90%  90%  90%  90%  90%  90%  90%  90%  90%  90%  90%  90%  90%  90%  90%
 diversified investments still   80%  80%  80%  80%  80%  80%  80%  80%  80%  80%  80%  80%  80%  80%  80%  80%
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 (see Phase 2).
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 until 10 years before TRD.   exchange for the greater   Growth  Growth Growth Growth  Growth  Pre-retirement  Growth Growth Growth Pre-retirement  Pre-retirement  Growth Growth Growth Pre-retirement  Pre-retirement  Growth Growth Growth Pre-retirement
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 of outcome (see Phase 2).
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 exclusively diversified   short-term volatility often
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 before TRD. It provides   investments, and prefer the   100%  100%  100%  100%  100%  100%  100%  100%  100%  100%  100%  100%  100%  100%  100%  100%
 potential growth over the long   lower volatility of diversified   90%  90%  90%  90%  90%  90%  90%  90%  90%  90%  90%  90%  90%  90%  90%  90%
 term while reducing volatility   investments. You accept   80%  80%  80%  80%  80%  80%  80%  80%  80%  80%  80%  80%  80%  80%  80%  80%
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                     The Flexible option might be suitable if:  The Annuity option might be suitable   The Cash option might be suitable if
 The Lifestyle default approach  Key  •  you are planning not to use your   if you are planning on buying a regular   you are looking to access your savings
                       savings at your TRD and access    income in retirement.   in the Plan as cash.
 If you do not make an active decision as to how to invest your Member Account,     Equity Lifestyle Fund  them in a number of stages
 it will automatically be invested in the Lifestyle – Thames approach, following the    Diversified Lifestyle Fund  (income drawdown is currently only
 Flexible option during the Pre-retirement phase.   Corporate Bond Lifestyle Fund  available if you transfer your Member
                       Account out of the Plan) OR
 You need to carefully consider if this is the right choice for you.   Index-Linked Gilt Lifestyle Fund
  Pre-Retirement Lifestyle Fund  •  you are not sure how you would
                       like to access your savings or are
  Money Market Lifestyle Fund  considering a combination of options.
    Level of risk
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