The word annuity traces its origins back to the Latin annuus: yearly.  Such is the name of payments that are paid annually, or on some other regular schedule; i.e., the payments are periodic.  The payments can be fixed (i.e., equal), increasing or decreasing at a specified rate, or irregular (essentially random).  They can made at […]

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