Shootin’ It Straight with Stan®

Listen up, lean in, get comfortable, and grab your coffee because we're about to talk about your retirement plan not being an annuity game.

Today's topic is FIAs: The Real Story. We get a lot of calls about this because people are getting sales pitches that sound too good to be true—because they are.

Today's topic is the cost of waiting to purchase an annuity. Now, I know what you're thinking, “Wait a minute, Stan. That sounds like a sales pitch. Are you pushing me to buy now?

Income Strategies Before Social Security

Annuities, as a category, are the only financial product that provides income as long as you are breathing. There's no return on investment (ROI) until you die.

Today, we’re discussing how annuity companies aren’t smarter than banks. They’re just more regulated. Let me tell you a little story.

Future income or income later is when I ask two questions: What do you want the money to contractually do? And when do you want those contractual guarantees to start?

I have a controversial topic that's either going to make you mad, make you think, or both. Hopefully, it will be both because I want you to get a little mad about this.

Today's topic is creating your own pension. Yes, I'm talking to you, the person out there who doesn't have a pension, or the person who has a pension and wants more money, or all of you who already have a pension called Social Security.

Today's topic is strategic retirement planning using annuities. For many of you out there, you might be asking, "Wait a minute, are you a certified...?" No, I'm Stan The Annuity Man.

Today's topic is a very good one. It's called "Can a 9-Year-Old Understand Your Annuity?" Now, I made my PR team leave that topic and title in place because I know there are grandfathers and people out there going, "Well, I've got a nine-year-old.”

For all of you do-it-yourselfers out there who've been managing your own money—running it through the Fidelitys, Vanguards, TDs, and Schwabs of the world—annuities are right up your alley.

Welcome to Shooting It Straight With Stan. I'm Stan The Annuity Man, America's annuity agent. I'm glad you joined me on this topic—it’s a hot one. Everyone’s asking me about it, so I thought I’d make a blog to cover it.

Today's topic is enhancing your retirement plan with annuities. Is that possible? Should you even consider it? Do you need an annuity? Big questions we're going to cover.

Today's topic compares Fixed Index Annuity Income Riders to Deferred Income Annuities, DIAs. And we get this a lot from a questioning standpoint, "Which one's better?"