Retirement can be scary. A deferred annuity can serve as a safety net. Image source: Ian Burt, Flickr. If you're familiar with annuities, you may know about variable annuities and immediate annuities, ...

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

As part of your retirement planning, you may have invested in a deferred annuity. And, hopefully, over the years you’ve enjoyed tax deferred growth in the contract. The annuity may be a fixed annuity, ...

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Annuities are insurance contracts that you can purchase to provide a stream of income for as long as you live. Think of them as life insurance in reverse. With life insurance, you pay premiums ...

Annuities are an insurance product designed to provide income during your retirement. If having an extra source of retirement income sounds good to you, you'll need to determine whether an immediate ...

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're familiar with annuities, you may know about variable annuities and immediate annuities, but not a certain other kind, which is well worth considering as part of your overall financial ...

If you decide to finance your retirement with an annuity, you'll need to choose between immediate and deferred options. Annuities are an insurance product designed to provide income during your ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This article was originally published in the January 2011 issue of Kiplinger's Retirement Report. To subscribe, click here. Deferred annuity owners have a new option: a simple way to ...