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Retirement Income Planning

Retirement Income Planning

As rising interest rates continue, annuity payouts have increased too. Below I have a table showing how annuity payout rates have increased substantially since the when I started this blog, September 2020, almost three years ago. Methodology I update the default annuity quote (using the Cannex system). The default client is as follows. 65 year […]

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Annuity Update – August 2021 In September 2020, I began a quarterly report on “Annuities”.  In a nutshell, I’ll show the change in annuity payments over time, when all other parameters are held constant except current interest rates.  I now have sufficient data and will reduce these updates to twice annually. This is the second and […]

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Annuities Are Also Used by Corporations The other day I came across an article from GM Canada.  They recently transferred $1.8 billion of their pension assets to an annuity for their salaried pension plan members who retired prior to June 2020.  This represents about $300,000 per employee on average. Why would GM Canada do this […]

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Annuity Update – April 2021 In September 2020, I began a quarterly report on “Annuities”.  In a nutshell, I’ll show the change in annuity payments over time, when all other parameters are held constant. Since I began reporting, interest rates have increased slightly, and so did annuity payouts. Methodology Every three months, I update the default […]

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