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What is an Investment-backed annuity? | Smarter Finance
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January 20, 2013. What is an Investment-backed annuity? What types of Investment-backed annuity are available to me? This happens when your income is linked to the With Profits fund of your chosen insurer. This is a more stable approach to investment-backed annuities as only a bonus is paid each year. This ensures that if one year the fund performs better than another, money is kept in reserve to try and cover any poor performance periods. This can help to stabilise your income to some extent. Five commo...
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Safe Financing: October 2011
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The safe zone for your personal finance. Sunday, October 30, 2011. Even in the most volatile of economic environments, there are still good investments to be had. And if there is anything that the recent recession and the current debt crisis of the United States and Europe have taught us, it is that certain companies are sometimes better than savings accounts when it comes to preserving and growing capital at a rate that overcomes inflation. More importantly to the long term investor, companies like this...