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Annuities

An annuity is a series of payments made at equal intervals. There are

many practical examples of financial transactions involving annuities,

such as

• a car loan being repaid with equal monthly installments

• a retiree purchasing an annuity from an insurance company

upon his retirement

• a life insurance policy being purchased with monthly premiums

• a bondholder receiving an annuity in the form of semiannual

coupon payments

In this chapter we consider annuities of level or varying amounts, the

payments of which are certain. Thus, we assume there is no default

risk in the case of a bond or an annuity purchased from an insurance

company. We shall discuss the calculation of the present and future

values of these annuities. When there is uncertainty in the annuity

payments, as in the case of the default of a car loan, the payments

are contingent upon some random events. Such annuities will not be

discussed in this book.

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