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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

For the first time in nearly twenty years, on January 1, 2022, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) updated its actuarial tables for determining required minimum distributions (RMDs) from retirement ...