Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. An actuarial life table is a table or spreadsheet that shows the probability of a person at ...

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' ...

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 ...

Question: My wife passed away a few months ago. I had been taking required minimum distributions from my IRA based on the joint life-expectancy tables because she was more than 10 years younger than I ...

Life expectancy is calculated as the number of years a person is expected to survive based on the statistical average. The starting point used to calculate life expectancy is age-specific death rates ...

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