One more note: most insurance agents will never
suggest immediate annuities to you because when you buy one, that's the last commission the agent ever gets.
Not exact matches
Michael Kitces @ Nerd's Eye View writes Solving The Annuity Puzzle — Inflexibility For Handling Potential Health Care Shocks In Retirement — Economic theory
suggests most retirees should utilize
immediate annuities for lifetime retirement income, yet very few actually do.
Just to be clear, I'm not
suggesting you or anyone else should put his entire $ 1 million nest egg into an
immediate annuity.
But if you really want to turn a portion of your nest egg into something that approximates a pension — a specific amount of money you can count on month in and month out for the rest of your life — then I
suggest you suspend your wariness about
annuities long enough to at least consider a type of
annuity that's easier to understand, less prone to the abuses that are too often associated with
annuities and is very efficient at turning savings into assured lifetime income — namely, an
immediate annuity.
We'd
suggest focusing on longevity insurance and plain - vanilla
immediate fixed
annuities.
ICICI Pru
Immediate Annuity Plan — as the name
suggest, it is an
immediate annuity plan with the following features: