Sentences with phrase «when mortality credits»

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Mortality credits aren't available to you when you invest as an individual, which means the only way for you to get the same level of income an annuity offers is to invest more aggressively.

So when setting annuity payments, insurance company actuaries are able to include what are know in insurance circles as «mortality credits,» essentially money that would have gone to annuity owners who die early but that's instead transferred to those who live longer.

Moreover, the paper gets its history wrong when it notes that «Total cancer mortality rates did not decline until 1990, 25 years after the identification of the effect of smoking on lung and other cancers...» Well, actually, it was more like 50 years, because the earliest studies to connect smoking and lung cancer were conducted not by NIH - funded scientists but by Nazi scientists in the run - up to World War II.4 By the logic of the PNAS paper, then, ought we to be crediting the Nazi health science agenda with whatever progress has been made on reducing lung cancer, rather than the incredibly protracted and difficult public health campaign (that, for the most part, NIH had nothing to do with) aimed at getting people to cut down on smoking?

Avoiding Tax Trap in the Exchange The very common reason why many policyholders would opt to change their old annuity policy and old life insurance policy in exchange to a new annuity policy and new annuity policy is mainly because a new policy is most likely will perform much better compared to the old policies since nowadays there are already improvements when it comes to mortality which will provide a lower insurance cost, a lesser administration expense on the policy which will provide lower cost, improvements in the said underwriting with lower cost, improvements in the health of the insured which will trigger lower cost, improvements in interest crediting which will perhaps provide higher rates of interest as well as the interest linked in an index and to some cases, a worsened health which may cause higher than the usual annuity payments.

Because of the mortality credits accrued during the deferral period, the time period between the purchase of a longevity annuity and when the longevity annuity payout begins, longevity annuities can be more efficient over the long run than immediate annunities, all else being equal.