Special-rate life annuities are life annuity products whose single premium is based on a mortality assumption driven … underwriting step (which explains the alternative expression "underwritten life annuities"). Better annuity rates are then applied … (partially unobservable) heterogeneity inside each sub-portfolio of special-rate annuities follows, and this results in a higher …

Special-rate life annuities are life annuity products whose single premium is based on a mortality assumption driven … underwriting step (which explains the alternative expression "underwritten life annuities"). Better annuity rates are then applied … (partially unobservable) heterogeneity inside each sub-portfolio of special-rate annuities follows, and this results in a higher …

board and lodging in the hospitals. They also issued life annuities: lifelong monetary pensions. Since both contract types … annuities and corrodies, these hospitals played a central role in providing the late-medieval urban middle class with access to … both life annuities and corrodies. …

paper considers the role of annuities and rents in the financing of poor relief and other means of generating income …

This article consists of a systematic analysis of a large sample of the first purchasers of annuities issued by the … century. In the second part, it analyses a sample, based on unedited data as well as specific studies, of 1,399 annuities sold …

this research, we focus on the time frames defined by the policy conditions of life annuities. While the payment phase …