Perhaps the biggest advantage to an annuity is that you pay no taxes on the income and investment gains of funds placed into an annuity
during the accumulation phase of a deferred annuity.
A withdrawal or surrender of an annuity
account during the accumulation phase, which is usually around 7 years, will generally result in a surrender charge penalty from the insurance company.
You can choose to access some of the
money during the accumulation phase, or once the surrender charge period has ended you have complete access to all the money to do with as you please.
Since the earnings and growth inside the TFSA are neither
taxed during the accumulation phase, nor taxed upon ultimate withdrawal, the net after - tax value after 20 years, assuming a modest three per cent compounded annual growth rate, would be $ 5,418.
I'm guessing it was more in equities vs.
bonds during the accumulation phase, which leads to this question: to get to the lower equity ratio, did you reallocate right before retiring, or shift your investing the last few years before retirement to slowly get to the lower equity ratio?
• B44 & B45: Input fees and all like you
did during the accumulation phase, but be aware that you probably would have wised up by then and rolled it over to a Rollover IRA and are managing it yourself using a discount broker.
The numbers in italics below show what you would have had if the total
return during the accumulation phase was inputted as 5 % on the Investment Comparison demo (instead of 1.1 %, like it was).
In the case of unit - linked pension or annuity products, the new rules bar any partial
withdrawal during the accumulation phase and the insurer is required to convert the accumulated fund value into an annuity at the vesting date.
I try to keep my commission costs to 0.5 % per transaction, which is
reasonable during the accumulation phase (assuming fees will be minimal or nonexistent once one is living off of their dividend income).
This guarantees that, should the investor
die during the accumulation phase of the variable annuity, the account owner's beneficiary will receive at least the amount of the investor's contributions minus withdrawals or the current market value of the account.
During the accumulation phase, there is a surrender charge period which is usually around 7 years (but can last as long as 15 years), and during this time there are penalties for early withdrawal which are in addition to any tax ramifications for early withdrawals.
During the accumulation phase of a fixed index annuity contract, interest credited to your nonqualified contract is tax deferred.
During the accumulation phase, the account will be set up to grow cash value based upon the formula selected by the annuity owner.
During the accumulation phase of a variable annuity, money paid into the contract (called a premium) is allocated to investment portfolios (called subaccounts) where earnings have the potential to grow tax - deferred.