“One common way to estimate life expectancy is by using actuarial life tables,” says Andrew Latham, certified financial planner and content director of the financial comparison website SuperMone ...

Period life expectancy is the number of years that a person of a selected age can be expected to live, assuming that the chance of death on which the survival table is based does not change in the ...

If you’re a non-spousal inheritor of the retirement account, you may need to use the Single Life Expectancy table or Beneficiary table. If you’re the spouse of the original account holder ...