The payout amount is determined by the growth of
the funds during the accumulation phase.
Not exact matches
Assets will cease being segregated current pension assets in the pre-commencement period when the
fund gives effect to value transferred by a member
during that period which results in the
fund starting to have assets that support both
accumulation and retirement -
phase interests.
A scheme of concern involves causing an asset (with large unrealised capital gains) to form part of a
fund's segregated current pension asset pool before the pre-commencement period, and then causing it to revert to
accumulation phase during the pre-commencement period by making the choice; the question will then be the purposes for which these steps were undertaken.
With a deferred annuity, you make regular premium payments to an insurance company over a period of time and allow the
funds to build and earn interest
during the
accumulation phase.
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.
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.