{"id":518,"date":"2015-08-10T14:44:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T18:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/?p=518"},"modified":"2015-08-10T14:44:25","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T18:44:25","slug":"to-invest-or-not-invest-that-is-the-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/to-invest-or-not-invest-that-is-the-question\/","title":{"rendered":"To Invest, or Not Invest, That Is the Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Should you invest some of your savings in a <\/b><b>deferred-income annuity<\/b><b>?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To make a long story short, the\u00a0 deferred-income annuity will provide a guaranteed monthly income, beginning at the age you set up, for the rest of your life. If you should die after it&#8217;s set up, however, you lose whatever is left. Your heirs won&#8217;t get anything.<\/p>\n<p>But the chance that other buyers might die before collecting is one reason insurances offer a higher payout for this kind of annuity than for other products that guarantee income.<\/p>\n<p>Say you&#8217;re 65 years old and invest $100,000 in New York Life&#8217;s Guaranteed Future Income Annuity. If you defer payouts for 15 years, at age 80, you will receive $28,695 annual income for the rest of your life.<\/p>\n<p>If you have no serious health issues and people in your family tree lived long lives, it could be worth a look. If you doubt that you&#8217;ll live into your late 80s or 90s, maybe not.<\/p>\n<p>One Treasury Department ruling offers another reason to consider a deferred-income annuity. You can now invest up to 25 percent of your IRA or 401(k) plan (or $125,000, whichever is less) in the annuity without having to take required minimum distributions at age 70 1\/2.<\/p>\n<p>Before the Treasury ruling, some insurers only allowed investors to use money from taxable accounts to purchase deferred-income annuities. Others required purchasers who used money from tax-deferred accounts to start receiving payments at age 70 1\/2.<\/p>\n<p>The Treasury ruling is expected to encourage more insurers to add deferred-income annuities to their lineups. If you&#8217;re tempted to buy one, retirement researchers at Morningstar Investment Management recommend waiting a few months because competition could lower prices.<\/p>\n<p>Through a 1035 exchange, you can convert your life insurance into an income annuity without paying taxes on your gains. You&#8217;ll give up your death benefit, but you&#8217;ll also no longer have to pay premiums. You can lock in monthly income for the rest of your life or for a designated number of years.<\/p>\n<p>Try putting those scenarios into your RetirementView and see what the graph shows. Does it make sense for you to do that or not. Just something to consider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should you invest some of your savings in a deferred-income annuity? To make a long story short, the\u00a0 deferred-income annuity will provide a guaranteed monthly income, beginning at the age you set up, for the rest of your life. If you should die after it&#8217;s set up, however, you lose whatever is left. Your heirs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}