Indexed annuity is one of the most recent annuity investment types and
is somewhat different from fixed or variable annuity. If you are
considering purchasing annuity for one reason or another (usually as a
retirement investment vehicle), you should definitely consider indexed
annuity investments.
Let’s first look at what the indexed annuity is. Indexed annuity, like
fixed and variable annuities, offers you the ability to receive a
number of payouts after you invested one or several payments into
annuity and enjoy the tax deferment possibility. Your money will be
earning interest to their full potential and tax will only be paid
during the annuity payout.
The main difference is in the interest rate that your investment will
earn. The indexed annuity is designed to track the performance of some
market index. Market index is a collection (or a basket) of a number of
market securities that have some factor in common. The examples include
but are not limited to S&P and Russell indexes (like S&P 500,
S&P 1000, Russell 3000 and Russell 1000). The indexed annuity tries
to follow the performance of the selected index. This allows the
investors who own indexed annuity investments to enjoy the market
performance and market movements. There is also an easy way to track
the performance of the indexed annuity – by tracking the performance of
the index.
There are several characteristics that apply to indexed annuity
investments. For example, most of the indexed annuities have a
participation rate. This is a certain percentage that tells you how
closely the indexed annuity follows the performance of the underlying
index. Many deferred annuities also limit the amount of money that you
can lose if the index performs poorly. There is usually a certain floor
set for this. Many indexed annuity investments will even specify that
you will earn some minimum interest rate not matter how bad the index
performance was.
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