Get Morningstar’s essential reading for financial professionals in Advisor Digest. This month inaugurates not only a new year, but a new set of IRS actuarial tables for determining our clients' ...

Good news--the IRS is giving us all a little more life expectancy. The IRS has just issued revised life expectancy tables for use in calculating required minimum distributions. Apparently, Americans ...

The IRS has issued final regulations on mortality tables to be used for calculating required minimum distributions, which reflect longer life expectancies. The IRS has issued final regulations ...

If you have been taking life expectancy distributions from an inherited IRA, should you care about the new RMD (required minimum distribution) tables effective in 2022? That’s a question raised by S.L ...

Unfortunately, since the new tables were finalized so late in 2020, they were not applicable in the beginning of 2021 as scheduled. The IRS pushed off their effective date for an additional year to ...

International organizations, research institutions, insurance companies, pension funds and health policymakers calculate human mortality measures from life tables. Life-table data, though, are usually ...

Abridged Life Tables MLT_UN2011_130_2.5y_abridged (XLSX, 2.92 MB) Model Life Tables for e0=20 to 100 by 2.5 years increment for ages up to 130 - the abridged life tables Abridged Life Tables ...

The standard period life table is based entirely on the death probabilities of the given period. Popular (not expert) usage of life expectancies from a period table typically ignores the fact that the ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Chip Stapleton is a Series 7 and Series 66 license holder, CFA Level 1 exam holder, and ...