How to Use annuity in a Sentence

annuity

noun
  • Part of her retirement income will come from an annuity.
  • The proceeds of the bonds were supposed to be used to buy annuities with enough left over to pay back the bond investors.
    Laurence Darmiento, latimes.com, 10 July 2019
  • My dad never intended on taking income from the annuity.
    Peter Dunn, USA TODAY, 14 June 2019
  • Variable annuities involve investment risks and may lose value.
    USA TODAY, 20 June 2019
  • Even New York has proposed that sellers of life insurance and annuities act in the best interest of clients.
    Barry Ritholtz, latimes.com, 24 June 2019
  • If not, there’s no excuse for failing to buy and hold products—dividend-paying stocks, bond funds, annuities—that generate cash.
    Glenn Ruffenach, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2018
  • Insurance products like annuities are a chief concern, attorneys said.
    Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2024
  • The solution preferred by many economists are annuities.
    Allison Schrager, Quartz, 3 June 2019
  • Nearly every winner opts for cash, which is the amount of money the lottery folks actually have in the bank ready to pay out to the company that would fund the annuity.
    Scott McFetridge, The Seattle Times, 23 Oct. 2018
  • The new bill opens the door for this to become a reality by creating a set of guidelines that would give employers a safe harbor to offer lifetime income annuities.
    Ray Martin, CBS News, 4 June 2019
  • Either way, yes, both an annuity salesperson and a fiduciary financial advisor make money for their services.
    Amy Wagner and Steve Hruby, The Enquirer, 31 July 2024
  • Life insurance or annuities with long-term care benefits now outsell traditional long-term care insurance by a rate of about 4-to-1.
    Nerdwallet, oregonlive.com, 15 June 2019
  • Often mislabeled or misunderstood as an investment, an annuity is a product designed by insurance companies to hedge against the chance...
    Kevin McAllister, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2019
  • The 30 payments added up equal the value of the annuity.
    Sarah Brookbank, The Enquirer, 29 July 2021
  • The winner could also elect to take the haul as a 30-year annuity.
    Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The annuity amount will rise by 1 percent a year for four years.
    Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Langer claims a $1 million prize to be paid out in an annuity for winning the points.
    Todd Kelly, The Arizona Republic, 14 Nov. 2021
  • An annuity is an annual payment of the full prize amount over the course of 30 years.
    oregonlive, 10 Jan. 2023
  • This type of annuity is available to people up to age 85.
    Diane Omdahl, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
  • And the variable annuity has an 8% charge for exiting the fund.
    Scott Burns, Dallas News, 23 May 2021
  • The $940 million is what a winner who takes the annuity option would get.
    CBS News, 4 Jan. 2023
  • But none of this is to say annuity payments are the only option.
    Mia Taylor, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Grand prize winners can opt for a lump sum of cash or can opt into an annuity.
    Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The lucky winner can opt for either an annuity or the cash option.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The winner has 180 days to claim the prize and must choose either to receive the money as an annuity or a lump-sum payment.
    Michelle Lou, CNN, 14 July 2019
  • In the sense that the money that’s being made, wouldn’t that be cool at some point down the road for those kids to be able to tap into some of that as an annuity?
    Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 13 May 2021
  • Before that, the last time a Powerball winner opted for the annuity was in 2014.
    Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The winner will have an option to take a cash payment of $274.6 million instead of the annuity.
    John Connolly, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2020
  • There are three main types of annuities: fixed, variable and indexed.
    Emilia Benton, Houston Chronicle, 24 Feb. 2020
  • By the end of the 30-year-period, the annuity payout would be roughly double the lump sum payout.
    Scott McFettridge, Fortune, 31 July 2023

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