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BLUE CHIP FINANCIAL PLANNING | Retirement Consider the pros and cons of life and living annuities By Kenny Meiring When you retire, there are several instruments that you can use to provide an income. Most people use only a living annuity, but just one of these instruments rarely meets a person’s needs optimally. The aim here is to receive a sustainable retirement income, pay as little income tax as possible and not lose money in the form of estate duty when you die. Most of my retirement income solutions use a combination of living annuities, life annuities and drawdowns from discretionary investments. Over the past few years, low interest rates and decent bond yields have resulted in annuity rates being extremely attractive and offering good value for money. I have used them to secure decent incomes for pensioners who were drawing down too much on their living annuities. Let me give you a sense of the difference in income that you can get by adding a life annuity into your investment mix. The recommended drawdown rate for a 76-year-old is 5.5%. Your Life annuities are designed to provide you with a pension for the rest of your life. 38 www.bluechipdigital.co.za
FINANCIAL PLANNING | Retirement BLUE CHIP Converting your retirement assets into an income should not be done lightly. die early. When you have a living annuity, you have to invest as though you are going to live to 100, as you cannot afford to run out of money. • Life insurance companies can afford to be a little more aggressive about how they invest the money, as they have large pools to invest. As an individual, you cannot afford to take a chance with your retirement capital, so you need to invest more conservatively and give up some potential growth. Downside of life annuities Life annuities are designed to provide you with a pension for the rest of your life. Once they are set up, there is very little flexibility. You lock yourself into a particular income stream and that will be paid to you for the rest of your life. The other weakness of the annuity is that it is not designed to pay an inheritance. With the living annuity, there will often be an amount that your children can inherit once you and your spouse have died. This is not the case with a life annuity, as your children will stand a much lower chance of inheriting because your pension will have dried up. I like to use a life annuity in conjunction with a living annuity. The life annuity is used to cover your fixed costs such as your utility bills and medical aid, and the living annuity covers the rest. In the example below, if you bought a life annuity of R3-million and used R7-million to make up the balance of your income, you could significantly reduce your living annuity drawdown rate: Living annuity R46 000 Life annuity with no annual increases R96 000 Life annuity with 5% annual increases R70 000 R10-million living annuity would thus give you a sustainable income of about R46 000 a month. A life annuity, on the other hand, would pay out a level amount of R96 500 a month for the rest of your life and your wife’s life. If you wanted an annuity that increased by 5% a year, the annuity would start at R70 000 a month. To summarise, we have: As you can see, the life annuity will provide a much higher income for you. There are a few reasons this is the case: • As life annuities are provided by life insurance companies, they make use of life expectancy tables. The people who live beyond the life expectancy level are subsidised by those who Having a lower drawdown rate can increase the chances of the capital value of your living annuity increasing over time. Not only will this give you greater financial security, but you will also increase the chances of your children inheriting something once you and your spouse have died. Converting your retirement assets into an income should not be done lightly. I would recommend that you chat with a financial advisor, who can advise you on the right combination of life and living annuities. This story first appeared in Daily Maverick. www.bluechipdigital.co.za 39
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