Any product changes and enhancements or new launches will complement the company's annuity product families and not «pivot» from one
type of annuity at the expense of another, she said.
Not exact matches
Fortunately, the
type of annuity you're asking about — an immediate
annuity — is (by
annuity standards
at least) the easiest to understand and, to my mind the
type with the greatest potential for helping people who want more guaranteed lifetime income than Social Security alone will provide.
«Lumping immediate
annuities with all the other
types is rather disingenuous,» said Wade Pfau, professor
of retirement income
at The American College
of Financial Services and director
of retirement research
at McLean Asset Management in McLean, Virginia.
At Protective Life, we offer different
types of annuities to help meet your particular financial goals in retirement.
As I mentioned
at the start
of this page, an Insurance
Annuity is not necessarily the same thing as the
type of annuity I've discussed above.
And while some
types of variable
annuities are good
at protecting against «sequence
of returns» risk, only a few versions offer true longevity insurance and / or some protection against inflation via step - up payments.
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.
If you're the
type of person who finds comfort in the guaranteed lifetime income
of a DB plan, then if corporate circumstances have forced you to convert a DB pension into a LIRA, your ultimate intention should,
at age 71, be to convert it to an
annuity.
Depending upon the
type and the amount
of the policy, a beneficiary will typically have several choices regarding how the death benefit from the policy will be paid — all
at once, or over time from an
annuity.
With this
type of annuity, your money will grow
at a guaranteed interest rate for a set period
of time.
At the time
of this writing, although this may be changing, the step up in basis that is afforded other
types of assets upon death is NOT available for
annuities.
Depending on the
type of annuity (e.g., immediate, fixed, fixed - indexed or variable) monthly payments are based on your age and interest rates
at the time it is set up.
At first glance, I'd say you probably don't need to put any
of your savings into an immediate
annuity, a
type of investment that converts a lump sum into guaranteed monthly payments for life.
Last week we looked
at the different
types of annuities that are available in Canada.
Manulife IncomePlus is a Guaranteed Minimum Withdrawal Benefit (GMWB)
type of variable
annuity product aimed
at people who are about to retire or in their early retirement years.
To better understand how
annuities work, let's look
at some
types of annuities and their main features.
Manulife IncomePlus is a Guaranteed Minimum Withdrawal Benefit (GMWB)
type of variable
annuity product aimed
at people who are about to retire or in their... Read More»
We'll look
at how that translates into specific decisions to make, such as when you (and your spouse if married) take Social Security, what survivor option you choose on your pension, the benefit
of using
annuities, the
types of accounts you fund while working, the tax impact you may incur as a single tax filer, etc..
Depending upon the
type and the amount
of the policy, a beneficiary will typically have several choices regarding how the death benefit from the policy will be paid — all
at once, or over time from an
annuity.
These plans are essentially
of two
types, Unit Linked Insurance Plans or ULIPs that provides returns based on market performance, and traditional endowment plans that offer a lump sum or
annuity payout
at the end
of the policy term when the life insurance policy matures.
In Canada the most common
type of annuity is the life
annuity, which is normally purchased by persons
at their retirement age with tax - sheltered funds or with savings funds.