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Anytime the market's gyrating a little bit, and now that COVID is lifted a little bit, you're starting to get those invitations in the mail to go to the local, very nice, high-end restaurant to have the steak dinner and then hear a sales pitch on the scariness of the markets.

Today's topic is annuity fees. What to look for, how to avoid them. Do you want to avoid them? So, are there any fees associated with initiating an annuity? Annuity, as you know, can mean many different types. You can’t say "I hate all annuities" Really? Do you hate your social security, player?

Today's topic's a good one, and I've been looking forward to talking about this. I get a lot of emails and calls and all this stuff about secondary market annuities, SMAs as they're called in the business.

Glad you’re joining me about how to buy an annuity, looking at mortality credits, and why that is so, so, so important. So, the big question is, what's a mortality credit? It's the pooling of everyone in your age group, pooling you together and your life expectancy, and taking advantage of the pooling of that risk with all of you.

How does a Fixed Indexed Annuity work? The panacea product, the too good to be true, the greatest product since sliced bread. Let's talk about Fixed Index Annuities. The history of a Fixed Index Annuity used to be called equity index annuities, but not anymore, is in 1995 when they were designed and introduced to compete with CD, typical, normal, normal CD returns, not the time of this taping.

Lump sum versus annuity pension, which one's better? I got a call the other day, and the guy is retiring from a very large company, saying, "Hey Stan The Annuity Man®, they're offering me this lump sum. They, the company. They're also offering me this pension payment, which is an annuity.

Today's topic is annuity fees.

So what is a MYGA? It's a Multi-Year Guarantee Annuity, M-Y-G-A. It's the annuity industry's version of a CD. So how do CDs work? You lock in the money for a specific duration, and during that duration, on an annual basis, you get a specific percentage. The same thing applies to MYGAs.

What's the annuity formula? What's the present value? What's the future value? How do we do the formula to calculate the present value? You're making it too complicated, Chester. I’ll strip it down and tell you the annuity formulas that make sense and the only ones you need to.

Let’s talk about IRAs. Some people say never to put an annuity inside an IRA. I have one comment for all those people with that advice; you’re dumb as a box of hair. That's crazy talk. Why is it crazy talk? Because there's an annuity that the IRS and the Treasury Department put on the planet for use inside an IRA. So let's stop with the nonsense.

Hot topic. How does a Fixed Indexed Annuity work? Some people think it is the too good to be true product. I’m here to set the facts straight. A typical call I get is, "Hey, Stan, The Annuity Man®, I went to this seminar. I got this nice invitation in the mail, and we got the steak dinner.

Spoiler alert, we're going to go through specifics.

You know me, you trust me, and you know I'm going to tell you the truth. Today's topic is Retirement Withdrawal Strategies. We're talking about MYGAs, Multi-Year Guarantee Annuities. So, we’ll go through how you can use MYGAs for your retirement withdrawal strategies.

Question of the day: is an annuity better than a pension? Tough question, loaded question. I will have to break that question down just like your English teacher broke down sentences. Is an annuity better than a pension because it's a bit broader? It always is in the annuity world. You need to know many more details.

Today's topic is a good one. It's about how annuities transfer risk. Annuities are insurance policies. Insurance companies exist to make a profit. That is correct. Annuities are issued by life insurance companies, all annuity types, and yes, life insurance companies are in the business to make a profit.