Annuities Flashcards

Which type of contract liquidates an estate through recurrent payments?

P, age 50, purchased an annuity that P will fund with $500/ month for 15 years. The annuity will then pay P retirement payments after the 15 years. Which type of annuity did P purchase?

N purchases an annuity by making payments in an amount no less than $100 quarterly. This describes which of the following annuities?

Flexible Installment Deferred

What protects against the risk of living too long?

• Simply stated, an annuity is started with a _____ ___ of money that will be paid out in
installments over a period of time or until the money is all gone

Principle amount, rate of interest the annuity earns, and length of payout period determine what?

monthly amount of benefit

-The individual who purchases the annuity pays the premiums and has rights of
ownership.

-can be annuitant, the beneficiary, or neither

The income benefits distributed at regular intervals during the liquidation phase of an
annuity contract are normally payable to the _______.

The beneficiary is the person who receives survivor benefits upon the annuitant’s death.

The pay‐in period, where the contract owner makes the purchase payments and the period of an annuity normally may continue after the purchase
payments cease.

• liquidation period
• annuitization period
• payout period
• money that has accrued during the accumulation period is paid-out in the form of payments to the annuitant.

Installments paid over a period of time=