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May 12, 2024
The Reality of Life With 20 Year Certain Annuities
Today's topic is one that I've wanted to do for a long time, and I got a call the other day that triggered it. The topic is the realities of life with a 20-year certain or joint life with a 20-year period certain, Immediate Annuity, or Deferred Income Annuity.

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May 9, 2024
Retirement Tips: How to Talk Annuities With a Spouse
Today's topic is interesting: how to talk to your spouse or partner about annuities and how to start telling them about contractual guarantees because most people, when you hear the word annuity, it either equals hate or it's a curse word.

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April 28, 2024
Are Fixed Index Annuities for You?
Today’s topic is going to inform a lot of people. It's going to save a lot of people from bad decisions. Hopefully, it will help the industry. I like doing that because this product is causing some issues. And the topic is, Are Fixed Index Annuities for You?

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April 22, 2024
Should I Take a Pension Lump Sum or Annuity?
Should you take a pension lump sum or an annuity? I'm assuming that you've been offered that. You have reached the finish line, you're going to retire, and you need to decide which is best and if an annuity outside, like on the street, is better for you and what probably most agents are telling you to do.

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April 21, 2024
How Annuities Can Help Achieve Your Retirement Goals
Today's topic is a good one. That's the reason you clicked it, right? How annuities can help you achieve your retirement goals. Easy for me to say. Now, for all you haters who clicked it and said, "That's not happening with me, man. That's not going to happen." It's already happening, player.

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April 18, 2024
Deferred Income Annuity Definition
Today, we are discussing Deferred Income Annuities. What's the definition of a Deferred Income Annuity? Some people call them longevity annuities because they solve for longevity risk. What longevity risk really means is not outliving your money, and that's what a Deferred Income Annuity does.

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April 15, 2024
What Is the Best Annuity for Me?
You ask a good question: What's the best annuity for me? You know what? The answer could be none. We're going to go through all annuity types and answer a bunch of questions, and at the end, you're going to make a good decision on whether an annuity fits you or not.

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April 14, 2024
Annuity Income Rider Roll-up Rates Are Not Yield
Today's topic is a good one and important because people make mistakes when they purchase annuities. They believe something that's true, that's being told to them, that's really not. Annuity agents or advisors are either not detailed enough, don't really know, or play semantics, word games, when they talk about Income Riders.

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April 11, 2024
MYGA vs. Fixed Annuity
Welcome back. I'm Stan The Annuity Man. Today we're going to talk about Multi-Year Guarantee Annuities versus Fixed Annuities. What you're really going to find out today is what a Multi-Year Guarantee Annuity is as opposed to just a Fixed Annuity, or are they the same thing?

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April 8, 2024
Guaranteed Future Income Annuity: 4 Strategies to Know
Hi, Stan The Annuity Man here. I'm America's annuity agent licensed in all 50 states. Did you know that I love lifetime income? That's what we're talking about today. I mean, I'm the only one that's wearing it on my sleeve, as they say.