Retirement annuities and tax-free savings accounts can salutate your financial well-being, although both products are quite different,a conflation of these two can add great value to your financial prospects. Opening a tax-free bank account can bring about a good investment opportunity with significant tax advantages and positive returns for your future.Retirement annuities are long-term investments which can not be pervious before retirement and tax-free savings accounts are for medium term investments. Medium term investments can be used in vitrine of an accident, precipitate sudden death, savings for your child's education, financing a vernal home or financing that neoteric car you intend to buy. A retirement annuity is a long term investment intended to benefit the beneficiary after the age of 55 or retirement from work as a stream of income for the future, retirement annuties are not intended for paying debts. However you can use your annuities as monthly income. At retirement you will have access to a one third of the funds, you cannot change your self as the beneficiary of the retirement annuity plan. You can nominate beneficiaries on the retirement policy, which will assist the trustees in the position of your money's in approprately allocating the investment on your death. This policies have fee's for administrative purposes and have flexible payment structures for your retirement days.