In my previous post I shared a portion of an article that was published recently in the Journal of Personal Finance.   It’s quite long, so I have been breaking it up to make it easier to read here on my blog.

The most recent post shared an example of how using a Tenure payment option from a Reverse loan, might be better that that from SPIA.

Here is part V and a comparison to the previous post.

New Research Shows Financial Planning Value of Tenure Reverse Mortgages
Posted By Jason Oliva On March 3, 2016

“By comparison, researchers note that a SPIA purchased with $201,174 would pay $955.21 per month, based on market rates as of August 2015 for SPIAs sold directly.

“The SPIA advantage is that payments continue until both members of the couple are dead, whereas tenure payments only continue until the home is vacated,” the study states. “For couples who can put plans in place to utilize home care if needed and keep their home as long as possible, the tenure option can be expected to provide payments for a duration similar to a SPIA.”

The term tenure payment calculation is based on an interest rate that is the sum of the annual Mortgage Insurance Premium of 1.25% and the HECM Expected Rate, which is the sum of the 10-year LIBOR swap rate—about 2.3% in August 2015—and a Lender’s Margin, which may vary by lender, but was set at 2.5% in the NRMLA calculator as of the date of the research’s publication. The researchers’ example of the 65-year-old husband and 63-year-old wife assumes a 4.8% HECM Expected Rate.

“The tenure payment calculation uses a higher expected duration than the SPIA, which would lower the payout rate, but a higher interest rate, which would raise the payout, and the interest rate more than offsets the duration,” the study states. “So based on current pricing, tenure payments ($1,130.36) will exceed SPIA payments ($955.21) when the SPIA purchase amount is set equal to the HECM Net Principal Limit.”