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An Annunity is an insurance product and is typically issued by the same companies that issue life insurance policies. It is a life assurance contract that will make regular payments (e.g. on a monthly or annual basis) to a person for a period certain, over one or more specified individuals' lifetimes.
Such contracts provide an income during the annuitant's lifetime. Some annuities (called "joint life" or "joint and survivor" annuities) continue paying the beneficiary after the first person dies, until that person dies as well.
Annuities that make payments in fixed amounts or in amounts that increase by a fixed percentage are called fixed or guaranteed annuities. Variable annuities, by contrast, pay amounts that vary according to the investment performance of a specified set of investments, typically bond and equity funds.
The term "annuity" generally refers to the actual contract that makes payments. Commonly it is used to refer to a contract that is making payments (with the means of saving being referred to as a "pension"). In this country the conversion of a pension fund into a Pension Annuity is the most common method of obtaining pension income, and this has led to a large market for annuities.
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