Beneficiary Clause

  

Santa's brother. "Benny" Clause, as he's more widely known, left the North Pole under a cloud of controversy in order to seek treatment for a candy cane addiction. He's currently living at a halfway house in Queens.

In a financial context, the beneficiary clause allows the owner of an asset to name someone as a beneficiary. This type of provision is a common feature of insurance policies. It also comes up in other financial settings, such as pensions, annuities or retirement accounts.

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finance a la shmoop. what is a pension? well it rhymes with tension, and likely

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for good reason. if you're a teachers pension or a fireman's pension or [person wearing dark glasses writes something down]

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another state employees pension that's backed up by a state that's going

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bankrupt. Hi, California, Hi Illinois. well we're looking at you. all right people

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well a pension is another term for a retirement fund. but what's special about

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a pension is that the employer essentially forces you to put away money

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for your retirement and then they invested for you.

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how nice. or at least be sure you invest it well on a salary of 75 grand a state [gambling table shown]

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employed ditch-digger might get a contribution of say 10 grand a year into

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her pension, and that's each year 10 grand of forced savings for as long as

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she you know digs ditches for the state. and in some states where the unions are

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strong in the governing financial knowledge is weak the government

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guarantees a minimum financial return on the pension investment made on behalf of

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the employees. that is in California for example the state guarantees a 10% per

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year return on their invested pension savings. if the invested return like [equation]

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investing it in Wall Street and stocks and bonds and private equity funds and

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all that stuff well if that invested return is less than that number less

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than that 10%, then the state rights to the pinch and a check to cover the

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incremental difference. yeah it's a huge Delta and it's well pretty much why you

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