Annuities provide periodic payments for an agreed-upon period of time, either now or in the future, for the annuitant or beneficiary. You can annuitize the annuity by making monthly, semiannual, or ...

In the world of finance, an annuity is a contract between you and a life insurance company in which you give the company a lump sum or series of payments, and in return, the insurer promises to ...

We recently wrote a piece showing how much income you can expect to receive every month from different types of annuities, including fixed, immediate income annuities and deferred income annuities.

Paying taxes on an inheritance can be tricky, and that may be especially true if you’re dealing with an inherited annuity. The tax liability changes based on how the annuity was funded, whether it’s ...

Use of core CPI instead of headline rate reasonable, court finds An estate trustee has discretion over whether to use core or headline inflation metrics to index an annuity, an Ontario court ruled.