Discover why a registered index-linked annuity offers the potential to enjoy stock market gains while also protecting you ...

Learn what annuities are, how fixed, variable, indexed, immediate, and deferred annuities work, and how they can help provide steady retirement income.

A deferred annuity is a long-term contract with an insurance company that provides future income–often for life–in exchange for premium payments, with options like fixed, variable, and indexed types ...

If you’ve been wondering what is a deferred annuity, it’s essentially a retirement savings product that lets your money grow tax-deferred until you decide to withdraw it. You can invest either a lump ...

Immediate annuities and deferred annuities are two types of financial products that allow individuals to save or begin retirement or other long-term goals. In return, the insurance company agrees to ...

Except as noted below, to the extent that contributions are made after February 28, 1986, to a deferred annuity contract held by a corporation or another entity that is not a natural person, the ...

An individual who transfers a nonqualified deferred annuity contract issued after April 22, 1987, for less than full and adequate consideration is treated as having received “an amount not received as ...

A recent WSJ article recommended that annuities be a default option in retirement plans. The author responds to readers’ ...

MONTREAL - Laurentian Bank of Canada is buying group annuity contracts to cover the responsibility for pension benefits owed ...

Darryl Strawberry did the work, but now you can collect his money from the New York Mets. Next month, the Internal Revenue Service is auctioning off the remaining annuity from the deferred ...

Laurie Sepulveda is a MarketWatch Guides team senior writer who specializes in writing about personal loans, home equity loans, mortgages and banking. She lives in North Carolina and has taught and ...