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Today's topic is a very good one, so lean in and listen. The topic is Index Annuity Income Riders versus Deferred Income Annuities, which are called DIAs. So, Index Annuity Income Riders versus DIAs.

Today's topic: Annuities Explained. People are like, "Explain this to us, Stan The Annuity Man." Fixed Annuity versus Variable Annuities, which I love to talk about. Now, disclaimer, I don't sell Variable Annuities.

We're going to talk about laddering investments and protecting your principal, all at the same time. Not lathering, that's clean investments. We're talking about laddering, like climbing the ladder.

This is a great topic. We're doing annuity comparisons. We're doing Indexed Annuities, Fixed Indexed Annuities versus Multi-Year Guarantee Annuities, which are called MYGAs. That's FIAs versus MYGAs, the ultimate cage battle.

Today's topic is a good one, very close to my heart, because I hate the Bad Chicken Dinner Seminar sales pitches. So, we will discuss the pros and cons of the Bad Chicken Dinner Seminar sales pitches.

The question today is, is an Indexed Annuity fixed or variable? Short answer, fixed, but there's a lot more to it than just that. What I would like to do is go through what a fixed indexed annuity, Indexed Annuity, and a Variable Annuity are and tell you the differences between both.

Hi there. Stan The Annuity Man, America's annuity agent. I'm so glad you joined me for today's topic, Fixed Indexed Annuities Pros and Cons.

Today's topic is a good one for me because this is the one that makes the top of my head pop off. This is the one that makes the veins pop out of my neck. This is the one when my producer saw me this morning before we got going, and they had to do makeup; I had this vein popping out of my eye.

This is a hot topic, not the clothing line for you youngsters out there. How does a Fixed Indexed Annuity work? The Panacea product, the too good to be true, the bad chicken dinner seminar, the good steak dinner seminar where you get the filet mignon.

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?

Index Annuities are contracts; we will go over the details of Index Annuities. You're going to hear about how I really feel about Index Annuities. That is guaranteed. The other thing guaranteed is that I will tell you the brutal truth about what they are.

This is part of the Fixed Indexed Annuity blogs I've done on the product, which will help the consumer understand what's being pitched out there. Today, we're going to talk about Income Riders attached to Indexed Annuities. Why? When? How? What? And does it make sense?

Are Fixed Index Annuities good against a stock market crash? What if the insurance company backing it goes under? What's your protection? Let's take them one at a time.

The question is, who sells hybrid annuities? Let me rephrase that. Who sells Indexed Annuities? The word hybrid is overused in the industry to sell Indexed Annuities because they're Indexed Annuities. I don't know why they're creating another word. Oh, by the way, I'm Stan The Annuity Man, if you hadn't caught that, America's annuity agent.

Are hybrid annuities safe? First of all, the short answer is they are a Fixed Annuity, and they are safe from a principal protection standpoint. But a bigger question is, you didn't come up with the word hybrid. Somebody used that in a sales pitch to you and said the word hybrid, which made you type in hybrid, which made you read this blog.