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 ...

When you see the periodic table, what comes to mind? The pieces on a Scrabble board? Maybe you think about your high school chemistry class. Maybe you think of the colorful table plastered on the wall ...

In life insurance lingo, a "table rating" refers to the life insurance premiums charged to people who cannot qualify for standard rates. Life insurance companies identify their tables in various ways, ...

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

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' ...

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 ...

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 ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. David Kindness is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and an expert in the fields of ...