True, more folks are running to financial planners these days, driven there by the fear that the large lump sum they got from the company pension plan may not last through their retirement, or by a sense that they haven't the time and knowledge to tend to their growing assets themselves.
Debts are often best tackled by paying off the principal lump sum.
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"Light coming toward us from a distant galaxy is bent by the gravity of a lump of matter in the middle, " explained Catherine Heymans of the University of Edinburgh.
You may be intimidated by the size of the lump sum distribution and consider taking the annuity, but the better financial advice would be to take the lump sum distribution.
In the past hospitals and other NHS bodies have been given lump sums by local health bosses to treat patients through the course of the year.
So far, the cuts in fees apply mainly to one type of reverse mortgage: the plain-vanilla fixed-rate "home-equity conversion mortgage, " which is backed by the Federal Housing Administration and is paid out to the borrower as a lump sum.
Located next to the convention center, the stadium would have doubled the mass and length of the huge bunker against the river already established by that "lump of black coal" -- as essayist Phillip Lopate described its dark bulk in his literary trip around the edges of Manhattan -- cutting off views and access with nearly a mile of hulking wall.
Buffett plans to begin dishing out the stock next July, starting with a lump of 1.2 million shares, slowly followed by the rest.
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Two points the couple raise deserve emphasis: First, the lump sum or buy out option, if made available by your employer, may be eliminated in the near future.
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Affleck shrewdly kept the door ajar -- such speculation helps in the gravitas department --but on Christmas Eve, he gave the press a lump of coal by admitting he wasn't running.
The same revaluation must be applied both to the numbers and to the spaces between them, lest the numbers all lump together at one end of the scale, followed (or preceded) by the spaces.
Europe may not like the idea of an alliance even more dominated by the United States, but it may have to lump it.
In August the ombudsman for veterans accused the government of cheating former soldiers by giving them lump-sum disability payments instead of richer lifetime pensions.
Like an annuity sold by an insurance company, the Mellon product would convert a lump sum into monthly payments, protecting the retiree from outliving his assets.
Other countries replace the lump sum bidding process with a percentage of profits generated by the network spectrum.
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The provinces were angered in 1995 when the finance minister, Paul Martin, cut his budget deficit by rolling Ottawa's health and welfare transfers into a single lump, and then cutting the annual total.
Perhaps most hopeful of all, the first studies of the results show signs of a shift away from identity politics, in which voters lump together by caste or religion to back one of their own.
In Armour, homeowners who paid their sewer taxes in a lump sum sued after the city changed its method for collecting taxes and forgave any amounts owed by people who were paying in installments.
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