so you want to give up a pension for a salesman's annuity. you're asking us to compare two things- one(pension) of which will have no informarion on, and the other we have minimum information.
why don't we see if the pension is a good deal or not before looking at a confusing annuity? if the pension is a good deal versus a hypothetically good or great annuity, why should you look at the annuity?
I'm most interested in the initial payout, the account value and how the payments grow(no growth, keep up with inflation, fixed rate of growth). things I somewhat interested are the age of your wife, happens when she dies, and fees for taking money out of the pension.
if you don't like to give out the exact values, then give everything as a percentage of account value.
Last edited by simpletron : 02-09-2009 at 11:13 AM.
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