The government has not explicitly stated that the voluntary CPP will be
structured as an annuity, so they may have something else in mind, but for now that appears to be a safe working assumption.
Not exact matches
Structured annuities, also known
as buffered or hybrid variable
annuities, protect, or buffer, contract holders from market downturns to a limited extent.
Structured variable
annuities don't come with living benefit guarantees and therefore don't require the same level of reserves
as traditional variable
annuities, which is why company executives consider them efficient.
LIMRA Secure Retirement Institute is classifying them
as «
structured annuities.»
Buffered variable
annuities, sometimes known
as structured variable
annuities protect, or buffer, contract holders from market downturns to a limited extent.
Amounts Not Received
as an Annuity, Amounts Received
as an Annuity: Fixed
Annuities, Annuity Rules: Variable
Annuities, Charitable Gift Annuity, Death, Disposition, Divorce, Estate Tax, Gifts and Charitable Gifts, In General, Loss, Private Annuity,
Structured Settlements, Taxation, Withholding
People often turn to
annuities for the tax benefits,
as the
structure allows owners to delay tax liability until later in life.
If you're receiving monthly payments from an insurance payout or lawsuit settlement — also known
as a
structured settlement
annuity — but need cash immediately to pay for medical bills or other significant expenses, you can sell all or part of your
annuity.
Some states also require the hiring of an attorney
as a precondition to acquiring a
structured settlement
annuity.
Because
annuities can be designed to offer timed payouts, guarantees on principal,
as well
as investment gains, and were already being offered by insurance companies, they quickly became the preferred vehicle to implement
structured settlements.
Structuring the
annuity as a joint
annuity is crucial to the success of this strategy, since the gift is for the lifetime of the child or grandchild.
An
annuity generally refers to
structured payments made for reasons besides a lawsuit, such
as inheritances, survivor benefits and some retirement plans.
Peachtree, along with other
structured settlement companies such
as Novation also purchase lottery winnings, which can often be set up in a
structured annuity.
These changes should not affect lifetime
structure costs
as the life insurers use their own internal life tables for
annuity pricing.
The CEO of Independent Life Insurance Company said, «We believe Independent Life's singular focus on
annuities to fund
structured settlements will result in excellent service and broker support,
as well
as upper tier pricing, to improve and help grow the industry.»
While a majority of personal injury settlements are paid in a lump sum, a
structured settlement is a legal settlement paid out
as an
annuity — over time — rather than in a lump sum.
The parties later separated and the question to be determined was: are the
structured settlement
annuity payments to be treated
as property or income under the Family Law Act?
In it's 65 - paragraph judgment, the ONCA overturned the trial judge's decision, finding that
structured settlement
annuity payments should be considered
as income for the purposes of spousal support, and not property under Part 1 of the Family Law Act.
In pay is also referred to
as structured settlement (SS)
annuity payment, which means a personal injury tort is resolved by receiving all or part of a settlement in periodic payments.
The court also noted that payments received pursuant to a
structured settlement
annuity were analogous to disability benefits, which was another reason they should be treated
as income.
The fee
structure in broker sold variable
annuities such
as the one in the analysis above is such that it diminishes the value of the guarantees the products are supposed to provide.
As with other
annuities, you can typically
structure payments to guarantee you won't outlive this income stream.