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An annuity is a contract with an annuity provider, such as a life insurance company. Annuities are purchased as a lump sum payment (single premium) or through multiple payments over a time period.[1] The annuities sold in Canada are overwhelmingly fixed (as opposed to variable) annuities: they provide the annuitant with a guaranteed regular income, either for life (life annuity) or for a certain term. Upon annuitization, the holding institution will issue a stream of payments at a later point in time, either soon (immediate annuity) or after a delay which can reach many years (deferred annuity).

A typical use of annuities is to provide retirement income. Given a certain amount accumulated for retirement, when it is time to generate income, you can either manage it yourself, for example in a Registered Retirement Income Fund (RRIF), buy an annuity, or do a combination of both (known as partial annuitization).[2][3] The main type of annuity used for retirement income planning is the single premium immediate (life) annuity (SPIA). It provides a regular, usually monthly, income during the life of the purchaser, with the option of payments continuing for the life of the surviving spouse. There is also the option of a guaranteed minimum number of payments, but taking either or both the options would reduce the annuity's regular payment. In a life annuity, the received payments are a combination of interest earned, a return of capital and a transfer of capital from annuity holders who die earlier than statistically expected to those who live longer than expected.[1]

A newer option to provide longevity risk protection is the advanced-life deferred annuity (ALDA). Those are purchased upon retirement with payments only starting in old age, so they are cheaper than SPIAs. Unfortunately the ALDA market is still in its infancy in Canada. In the SPIA or ALDA form, the academic literature strongly favours life annuities since they provide an "excellent hedge against one’s longevity risk".[4][5] Yet only about 10% of Canadians aged 55 to 75 own one according to one survey[4]; this is known as the "annuity puzzle".

Fixed term annuities can also be used either for retirement or for other goals. Variable annuities are very popular in the US; in Canada they are called segregated funds. Insurance companies also offer "accumulation annuities", which are similar to guaranteed investment certificates.

This overview article covers the main annuity types available in Canada. It starts with annuity basics, then covers the main annuity types and taxation considerations. The article also covers payout rates, reviews advice about buying an annuity, and summarizes consumer protection measures that are in place.

Annuity basics

For all annuities:

  • Annuities are purchased from insurance life companies[6][7]

For fixed annuities (life or term):

  • You typically pay a lump sum, which is typically transferred from an RRSP, an RRIF, a non-registered account[6] or a pension plan
  • The money is returned to you, with interest, in regular payments[1][6]
  • You can choose to receive payments for a set number of years or for the rest of your life[6]
  • You can receive monthly, quarterly, semi-annual or annual payments[1][6]
  • For a given lump sum, annuity income depends on current interest rates, your age, your gender, your health, any guarantees or options, and the annuity provider[1][8]

Single premium immediate (life) annuity

Main article: Single premium immediate annuity

Canadians are generally familiar with Single premium immediate (life) annuities (SPIAs), which provide a fixed payout for life. Payouts are a function of two things: mortality tables and interest rates.[7] As with life insurance policies, the annuities marketed by life insurance companies pool mortality risks, and payout rates are partially determined by actuarial calculations of the probabilities of some people dying before their average life expectancy and some people exceeding their life expectancy. Payouts also depend on bond interest rates.

A SPIA is like life insurance in reverse.[9] With life insurance, you make a series of payments to the life insurance company (the monthly or yearly premia) and your heirs receive a lump sump (the death benefit). With a SPIA, you supply a lump sum to the life insurance company and you receive back a series of regular payments (made monthly, quarterly, semi-annually or annually), typically for life. So SPIAs are a form of longevity insurance.[9]

SPIAs come in two different forms, single or joint. Single Life annuities pay a periodic income as long as the sole annuitant is alive. Joint Life annuities pay a periodic income as long as one of the two joint annuitants is alive. Another option is to select a guarantee period during which periodic payments will be made whether or not the annuitant(s) is/are alive. Those options reduce payouts.

Most SPIAs sold in Canada pay a fixed amount per payment, with no indexation for inflation. Indexed annuities are rare and payments typically increase by a fixed percentage every year (e.g., 2%) rather than being indexed to the actual cost of living.[10]

When purchasing an annuity with non-registered (post-tax) funds, there are two possibilities in terms of the tax treatment: prescribed or not. The income tax treatment is generally better for prescribed than for non-prescribed annuities.[citation needed] Details are discussed below under "Taxation".

Fixed deferred (life) annuities

With a fixed deferred annuity, you pay a lump sum today and get a stream of regular monthly payments in the future, starting after a specified delay. One purpose of this product is longevity insurance. For example, you could set up a ladder of bonds (nominal or real return bonds) to cover retirement income needs for the first 20 years, and use a fixed deferred life annuity to provide income afterwards.[11][12] This strategy avoids the loss of liquidity associated with immediate annuities, yet covers the longevity risk. In U.S. examples provided in the linked journal articles, the proportion of capital used to buy the deferred life annuity is about 10%, and the rest goes into the bond ladder. Instead of having to plan for wealth decumulation over an uncertain lifespan (in a self-managed drawdown scenario), the retiree has "the much simpler task of decumulating over a fixed period ending on the date that the (deferred life annuity) payments commence".[13]

Advanced-life deferred annuities (ALDAs) were previously problematic in Canada because of the tax treatment.[14] However, the 2019 federal budget amended the tax rules to allow them starting January 2020.[15][16][17] The new rules include a new maximum age at which an annuitant can defer payments and a new amount limit.[1][18] More specifically, ALDAs are purchased using plans such as RRSPs and RRIFs, with a limit of 25% of the plan value or $150k; payments have to start no later than the end of the year when the annuitant attains an age of 85.[15]

A secondary benefit of ALDAs is that they lower the minimum payments from RRIFs, so reduce taxable income early in retirement.[19] As of late 2023, only one insurance company has started to offer them.[20] Unless they are in a hurry, retirees may wish to wait until the market becomes more competitive, before buying an ALDA.

Term certain annuities

Term certain annuities are fixed annuities that pay a periodic income for a specific predetermined length of time or number of payments.[1] Payments can be immediate or deferred (e.g., [21]). If you die before the end of the term, the payments will go to someone you name as your beneficiary, or to your estate.[1] Since you (or your heirs) are certain to get a known number of payments, there is no mortality risk pooling involved (unlike in life annuities), and payments do not depend on the age of the purchaser. Payments depend only on interest rates and the selected term (payment period); economically this corresponds to a portfolio of zero-coupon bonds (strips).[22]

Term certain annuities bought with money from an RRSP or RRIF must extend to age 90.[6] Those could be used for retirement income purposes, but what if the annuitant survives past the age of the last payment? A life annuity (SPIA) does not have this uncertainty (and benefits from mortality risk pooling).

Term certain annuities purchased from non-registered funds are more flexible. They can be used to fund "obligations or commitments that have a known time frame".[23] A specific example would be to provide income during early retirement, before other benefits or pensions start. Or perhaps to fund child support payments until the child turns 18, as part as a divorce.[24] Many other applications can be envisaged. At one provider, payments can last between 3 and 40 years.[21]

On the other hand, using a lump sum to provide level income over a relatively short time frame does not require the purchase of an annuity (which involves commissions, etc.). Suppose that the application is providing 5 years worth of income, starting immediately. The investor can simply place the first year in a High-interest savings account (HISA) and set up a declining ladder of Guaranteed Investment Certificates (GICs) (1, 2, 3, 4 years) with annual interest payments for the last four years. All interest payments and principal repayments from the GICs are deposited into the HISA. A few minutes with a spreadsheet might be required to produce an exactly equal amount of income every year, but this is not rocket science (see declining GIC ladder for detailed explanations). At the very least, the investor should compare this option with what life insurance companies are offering. For longer payment periods, the term certain annuity might be convenient.

Accumulation annuities

Accumulation annuities are also known as Guaranteed Interest Account (GIA), "guaranteed interest contracts", and "guaranteed interest annuities". They are a deposit or fixed income product similar to a Guaranteed Investment Certificate (GIC).

Variable annuities and GMWBs

Main article: Segregated fund

Variable annuities are widespread in the US market. The Canadian equivalent, thanks in part to tax differences, is a segregated fund. Segregated funds are akin to mutual funds but with additional insurance features, and significantly higher fees. They offer a maturity guarantee of 75% to 100% on the initial investment on the 10th anniversary. They also offer death guarantees of 75% or 100% upon death of the annuitant. Finally, they offer a free pass through probate fees for an estate, and against creditors should a bankruptcy occur.

A number of Canadian life insurance companies have remodelled segregated funds to mimic American-style variable annuities. These are segregated funds marketed as having a guaranteed minimum withdrawal benefit (GMWB).

Taxation

Annuities purchased with registered funds

If you buy an annuity with money from a pension plan, RRSP, or RRIF, your annuity payments will be fully taxed (i.e. taxed as regular income).[8]

Annuities purchased with non-registered funds

For annuities purchased with money from non-registered accounts, the regular payments will be partly taxable. Specifically, income earned (with after-tax dollars) from an annuity is treated as a blend of ordinary income (taxable interest) and return of capital ( principal).

Non-prescribed

With a non-prescribed annuity -- the default version -- the "accrual" method of taxation is used. In the early years, the annuity payments will be considered mostly interest for tax purposes, and taxed at your MTR. Income from the later years is mostly return of capital with a lower tax bill.[8]

Prescribed

A prescribed annuity, also purchased with non-registered funds, rearranges the taxable events leveling the blend of ordinary income and return of capital.[25] This reduces the tax due in earlier years and increases it in later years if the purchaser lives that long. This is an example of age arbitrage.

Conditions upon which a contract is considered a prescribed annuity are described in Canada's Income Tax Regulations, subsection 304. Prescribed annuities issued from year 2017 onwards use an updated mortality table, resulting in a longer assumed life expectancy and a larger taxable portion of payments than before.[26]

Back-to-back annuities

Back-to-back annuities are a part of insurance jargon. The principle is to fund a prescribed annuity and to take the payments from the annuity to buy a life insurance policy. The annuity and life insurance should be bought from different companies. Upon death, the principal behind the annuity will pass on "tax-free" to the heirs. But it's not actually tax-free, since the annuity was paid for in after-tax dollars and life insurance companies paid premium and perhaps capital taxes; instead, it's a mortality arbitrage, since a healthy person might get a lower premium rate on the life insurance policy versus the general pool of annuity policy holders.

This strategy is sometimes called an insured annuity.[27]

For more discussion on the taxation of annuities, see How Are Annuities Taxed?.

Charitable gift annuities

See also: Donating appreciated securities

Charitable gift annuities involve a donation (which can be in cash or "in kind"; such as a stock) to a registered charity, which offers a stream of regular payments in exchange.[28][29] The payments, which typically begin immediately, can be for life or over a fixed period.

There are two types.[30][31] The first type, called "self-managed", involves the charitable organization managing the funds. The charity gets to keep whatever has not been spent on the regular payments at time of death, to use for its programs. With the second type, called "re-insured", the charity keeps a portion of the funds for its immediate use (20% or more) and buys an annuity from a life insurance company with the rest, to provide the regular payments to you. According to RBC, "The Income Tax Act treatment of charitable annuities determines that the eligible gift amount is equal to the excess of the amount contributed by the donor over the amount that would be required to purchase an annuity from an arm’s length third party to fund the guaranteed payments".[30] So for both types of charitable gift annuities, the tax credit receipt will be the same, as else equal.

In terms of the tax treatment of regular annuity payments, the CRA writes that "Charitable annuities issued after December 20, 2002, will be taxed in the same manner as all other annuity contracts are taxed under the Income Tax Act. Assuming the annuity is a "prescribed annuity contract" as defined in subsection 304(1) of the Income Tax Regulations, annuity payments are included in the taxpayer’s income in the year the payments are received, and the taxpayer may claim a deduction in respect of the capital element of the payments."[32]

If marketing materials for charitable gift annuities present a comparison with GICs, be aware that annuity payments involve a portion of your capital being paid back to you (return of capital), whereas GIC interest payments do not. So of course the regular payments from an annuity will be higher than GIC interest, but that is a misleading comparison. The correct comparison is with a prescribed annuity without the charitable gift component; this will obviously generate a higher monthly income because no donation is involved.

It is a lot easier to think about your retirement income needs (and decumulation strategies) separately from your charitable endeavours. In the case of a "re-insured" charitable gift annuity, the obvious alternative for retirees interested in guaranteed lifetime income using non-registered funds is to buy the prescribed life annuity directly from a life insurance company (without the charity acting as intermediary), using an amount of capital required to provide the desired guaranteed retirement income. If there is capital left for a charitable donation, this can be done now or later, and the amount of the donation has no relation with your retirement income needs. The donation could be less than 20% of the annuity premium, or a lot more if you can afford it: those are separate decisions.

In the case of a "self-managed" charitable gift annuity, significant due diligence is required because charities don't have to follow the same strict rules as life insurance companies when managing the money in the annuity pool.[citation needed]

Payout rates

Are prices fair?

There is a perception that annuity prices are not actuarially fair, since insurance companies want to make profits, they have administrative costs, and there is the problem of adverse selection.[5] One way to address fairness (or "actuarial neutrality") is the money's worth ratio, which is "the ratio of the present value of the stream of benefits (the annuity) will pay, divided by the current price of such a contract".[4]

Nielson (2012)[33] calculated the money’s worth ratio of annuities in Canada in 2009. She found the ratio was close to or above 1, "implying that Canadian purchasers were getting attractive prices in the marketplace at that time". Her explanation was that "the sale of annuities offers a natural hedge to the mortality risk posed by the sale of life insurance products. In other words, most annuities are sold by insurers that have a large portfolio of life insurance policies also tied to mortality – but in the opposite direction. The sale of an annuity reduces the overall risk faced by the firm".

Boyer et al. (2020) calculated the money’s worth ratio for annuities in Canada based on June 2017 annuity prices, interest rates, and survival probabilities.[4] They found average ratios close to 1 based on the Statistics Canada life expectancy tables, but slightly less than 1 (i.e., 0.94) using micro-simulation forecasts that "simulate the future health of individuals based on a rich set of demographic and health dimensions". They note that such calculations are highly dependent on the discount rate used.

For example, if we assume that the insurance company is investing in corporate bonds instead of risk-free government bonds, the money’s worth ratio could be 85-90% instead of 100-105% based on the period 2000-2006.[34] On the other hand, if the purchaser assumes that annuity payments are indeed risk-free, then government bonds provide an appropriate discount rate.[34]

Current payout rates

Current payout rates for annuities can be found at Cannex and LifeAnnuties.com.

Cost of options

Options and guarantees reduce monthly payments. The Ontario Securities Commission gives the following examples for a 65 year old male buying $100k of annuity with non-registered funds:[35]

  • Straight life (no options) = $536 per month
  • Life plus 5-year guarantee = $531
  • Life plus 10-year guarantee = $515
  • Life plus joint-and-last-survivor = $435

Historical data

Ten years worth of yearly historical annuity rates are available here.

Historical weekly data from 2000 to 2013 can be found at Ifid. The Ifid data also include the Implied Longevity Yield (ILY),[36] which is a calculated internal rate of return that can be compared to current bond yields. For 2014 onward, similar data is available to CANNEX subscribers (for a fee).

Buying an annuity

Typical annuity quotes are for $100k of capital, but the minimum purchase amount for life annuities can range from $10k to $50k, depending on the company.[37]

There are three ways to buy an annuity:

  1. In person from a licensed insurance agent or broker
  2. Online or by phone from a broker or insurance company
  3. From a financial advisor who is licensed to sell insurance

Many people talk to their life insurance company. Once you know what you want, what is appropriate to your needs, you can also ask an annuity broker or your financial advisor to find the best deal for you. A broker shops around for the best deal for you from different companies.

Sales commission

According to the Ontario Securities Commission, the one-time sales commission "can be up to 3% of the lump sum you’re depositing".[38] The larger the annuity purchase, the lower the commission in percentage terms, for example:[39]

  • 3.0% on 1st $100 000
  • 2.0% on next $100 000
  • 1.4% on next $200 000
  • 1.0% on the balance.

The commissions and all other costs should be included in the quoted prices (i.e. payout rates).[38] So payout rates for larger premiums are better.[39]

Insurer ratings

Check the insurer's A.M. Best financial strength rating before you buy an annuity. The insurers should have that up on their websites. The possible ratings are:

A.M. Best financial strength rating scale[40]
Rating category Rating Symbol Rating notches1 Comment
Superior A+ A++ "Superior ability to meet their ongoing insurance obligations"
Excellent A A- "Excellent ability to meet their ongoing insurance obligations"
Good B+ B++ "Good ability to meet their ongoing insurance obligations"
Fair B B- "Vulnerable to adverse changes in underwriting and economic conditions"
Marginal C+ C++ Same
Weak C C- "Very vulnerable to adverse changes"
Poor D n/a "Extremely vulnerable to adverse changes"
1 Notches are gradations within the category. A second '+' is better, a '-' is worse. For example there are four A ratings: A++, A+, A, A-.

Six steps

The OSC recommends you take the following six steps if you purchase an annuity:[41]

  1. Decide how long you want to receive payments for (fixed term or life)
  2. Decide what options you need
  3. Compare prices (shop around), including any up-front commissions, and "buy only from a strong life insurance company with a high credit rating"
  4. Decide on how often you want to receive payments
  5. Choose a beneficiary, if applicable
  6. Review and sign the contract

Right of Rescission

Quebec

In Quebec, if you change your mind after buying an annuity, you have ten days to cancel or "rescind" your contract in writing; this is also known as the "free-look" period. This right comes from article 440 of the "Act respecting the distribution of financial products and services (chapter D-9.2)". When rescinding your contract, use registered mail or a form of transmission that provides an acknowledgment of receipt.

Other provinces

Consumer protection

Assuris is the life-insurance company insurance organization.

SPIAs and term-certain

Assuris classifies SPIAs (life annuities) and term-certain annuities as "payout annuities". For those, annuity payments are protected, for each member insurance company, up to $5,000 per month or 90% of the promised Monthly Income benefit, whichever is higher.[42] More specifically, "if your life insurance company fails, Assuris will ensure that the payments under your payout annuity will continue and (they) will seek to transfer your policy to a solvent company".[42] During the transfer process, "your benefits will be adjusted to the greater of the Assuris protection or the recovery percentage achieved by the liquidator".

If you require more than $5000 a month of annuity income and you want 100% Assuris coverage, you can split your annuity purchases between two or more insurers (depending on the required monthly income). Buying several annuities from the same insurer does not increase Assuris coverage: you need to buy from different insurance companies.

Accumulation annuities

For accumulation annuities, the maximum protected capital is "$100,000 or 90% of your accumulated value benefit, whichever is higher".[43]

Segregated funds

The Assuris guarantee is discussed in the segregated fund article.

Alternatives to annuities

The classic dilemma is should the retiree continue to self-manage wealth (e.g. in a RRIF) or buy an annuity such as a SPIA from a life insurance company.

But if greater guaranteed inflation-indexed income is desired, an alternative to private market annuities is to defer Old Age Security and/or Canada Pension Plan/Québec Pension Plan. These income streams can be viewed as inflation-indexed annuities, which you can increase significantly by delaying them up to age 70. See Delaying OAS and CPP/QPP.

See also

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