Annuity Contractual Guarantees Are NOT Complicated: Shootin' It Straight With Stan
“Fun With Annuities” The Annuity Man Podcast
Release Date: 11/15/2023
3 Years in or 3 Years Out for MYGAs and CDs: Shootin' It Straight With Stan (TAM Classic)
“Fun With Annuities” The Annuity Man Podcast
In this episode, The Annuity Man discussed: Locking in for three years and over The top three safest money When to go for CDs and treasuries Key Takeaways: Ask yourself how long you want to lock the money in for. MYGAs provide the highest contractual guarantee if it’s three years and over compared to CDs and treasuries. The safest money out of all three would be treasuries, the second safest money is CDs, and the third safest would be MYGAs. Buy treasuries only from treasurydirect.gov. If you’re going to lock in money for three...
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Lifetime or Interest Income?: Shootin' It Straight With Stan (TAM Classic)
“Fun With Annuities” The Annuity Man Podcast
In this episode, The Annuity Man discussed: The right product for the right situation What is lifetime income? Income from interest Key Takeaways: An agent selling an annuity product as a one-size-fits-all product is like a doctor prescribing one medication for everyone. There is a right product for the right circumstance, and if a person doesn’t need an annuity, they shouldn’t be sold one. Lifetime income is a transfer of risk pension product that an annuity company is contractually obligated to pay as long as you or your spouse are...
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Stan The Annuity Man: The Annuity Man Predictions for 2024 (TAM Classic)
“Fun With Annuities” The Annuity Man Podcast
In this episode, The Annuity Man discussed: Planning with simplicity Annuity products overview Consumer-focused future of annuities Tuning out the noise Key Takeaways: Lifetime income is priced primarily on your life expectancy and interest rates play a secondary role in pricing. Shop all carriers for the highest contractual guarantee, don’t gamble your retirement on hypothetical and theoretical numbers. Seek simplicity in planning. Indexed annuities are going to keep getting pitched, and often through misleading and hyperbolic...
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Start Acting Annuity Rich (Wear a Suit!): Shootin’ It Straight With Stan (TAM Classic)
“Fun With Annuities” The Annuity Man Podcast
In this episode, The Annuity Man discussed: Acknowledging your wealth The scars of scarcity Should you be worried about inflation Setting up contractual guarantees Key Takeaways: Be rational about the wealth that you have. Don’t say you’re not rich if you are not one of the 40% of Americans today who have $400 to their name and are struggling. Acknowledge the wealth that you’ve earned. Many people have what can be called the “scars of scarcity.” Experiencing poverty in one’s youth or growing up amid an economic crisis tends to...
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Automate Your Income: Shootin' It Straight With Stan
“Fun With Annuities” The Annuity Man Podcast
In this episode, The Annuity Man discussed: Automating your income Establishing an automated income stream Reverse-engineering your income goal Key Takeaways: Automating your income is about creating more income floor to add to your lifetime income stream with Social Security which increases with inflation. This is where annuities come into play since that’s what they’re put on this planet to do. Establish a good lifetime income stream that will provide for your spouse or family. Keep it simple, and make it automated, so they wouldn’t have...
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Sheryl Garrett: Financial Planning On YOUR Terms
“Fun With Annuities” The Annuity Man Podcast
In this episode, The Annuity Man and Sheryl Garrett discuss: The role of a financial planner How the industry should be Hiring the right planner Being aggressive with cash flow Key Takeaways: Many personal, financial, economic, and psychological things are coming together all at once. The planner’s role is to help clients see through all of that and reach out to the appropriate specialist when they need certain products or services fulfilled for the clients. Everybody has questions about their personal finances. People in the industry should...
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The Older You Are, the Higher the Annuity Payment: Shootin' It Straight With Stan (TAM Classic)
“Fun With Annuities” The Annuity Man Podcast
In this episode, The Annuity Man discussed: Claiming your social security You can’t time annuities Three phases of retirement Key Takeaways: Social security payments get higher if you wait until 70 because you’re older which means that your life expectancy is less, meaning that there are fewer projected payments. Fewer payments mean that those payments will be higher. It’s simple, but that doesn’t mean that that is always the better choice. You can’t time it with annuities, you can’t time it with lifetime income. Annuities are priced...
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Increase Your Annuity Income Floor As You Age: Shootin' It Straight With Stan (TAM Classic)
“Fun With Annuities” The Annuity Man Podcast
In this episode, The Annuity Man discussed: Creating a solid income floor for retirement Considering your income Many ways to create income Key Takeaways: Going into chapter two of your life, you have to do your own thing. Stop keeping score. You’ve already won the game, you already have enough money, so why are you still playing? It’s important to have non-correlated income sources for your retirement such as pensions, rental properties, and annuities in order for you to create a solid income floor that’s not affected by market...
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Rick Ferri: Core-4 Portfolios for Simplistic Success (TAM Classic)
“Fun With Annuities” The Annuity Man Podcast
In this episode, The Annuity Man and Rick Ferri discuss: Outperforming 90% of investors Developing a simple portfolio Five ways to improve your portfolio Facing the risks Key Takeaways: Investing is not as difficult as others would have you believe. The best way to invest is to keep things simple; the fewer moving parts, the better. Develop a simple portfolio that will hold four funds, two stock funds, and two bond funds. The bond funds have to be some fixed income type of allocation, while on the stock side, you do a stock market index fund...
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You Already Won! Why Are You Still Playing?: Shootin' It Straight with Stan (TAM Classic)
“Fun With Annuities” The Annuity Man Podcast
In this episode, The Annuity Man discussed: Not everyone needs to be exposed Bonds and market volatility Looking into lifetime income Questions to ask your advisor Key Takeaways: Financial advisors tend to advise their clients to do 60% equity and 40% bond split or that they always have some exposure, but it doesn’t apply to everybody. People who’ve won the game don’t have to keep playing. Bonds aren’t fool-proof; they go down in value if interest rates go up. If you’ve already accumulated enough to live the life you want and...
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Explain your annuity to a nine-year-old
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Why annuities seem complicated
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Ask for contractual guarantees
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Don’t buy an annuity for market return
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You should be able to explain the annuity that you’re getting ready to buy or considering buying to a nine-year-old. You should be able to explain the annuity type, how it functions, how it works, and what are the limitations and benefits of it.
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Annuity contractual guarantees are simple and easy to understand, they're not complicated. It is the sales pitch given by agents and advisors that makes them complicated.
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If someone is pitching you something that sounds too good to be true then it is, without exception. Ask the agent to show you contractual guarantees. Ask them what would be the worst-case scenario.
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If you're looking for real market returns, then don't buy an annuity go in the markets so you can get real upsides.
"Annuity contractual guarantees are simple and easy to understand. It's the non-guaranteed part that gets people confused and making bad decisions. Make your decision on what an annuity will do, not what it might do." — Stan The Annuity Man.
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