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Keep Your Powder Dry Annuity Income Planning: Shootin' It Straight With Stan

Keep Your Powder Dry Annuity Income Planning: Shootin' It Straight With Stan

Today's topic is a very good one, as usual. It's called Keep Your Powder Dry Annuity Income Planning. One of the biggest fallacies in the annuity land is people getting different information on the internet or from their advisors who know nothing about annuities.
There’s NO Annuity Sweet Spot to Purchase: Shootin' It Straight With Stan

There’s NO Annuity Sweet Spot to Purchase: Shootin' It Straight With Stan

Today's topic is a very, very important one, not only for the consumer but also for the annuity industry. The topic is: there is no sweet spot for annuity purchases. There's no perfect time to buy one.
Transfer Your Risk to Annuity Contractual Guarantees: Shootin' It Straight With Stan

Transfer Your Risk to Annuity Contractual Guarantees: Shootin' It Straight With Stan

Today's topic is a very good one, and the title is Transfer Your Risk to Annuity Contractual Guarantees. This is very important in the current sales environment of most annuity bad chicken dinners and expensive steak dinner seminar sales pitches.
You Already Own At Least 2 Annuities: Shootin' It Straight With Stan

You Already Own At Least 2 Annuities: Shootin' It Straight With Stan

Welcome to Shootin' It Straight With Stan. I am your host Stan The Annuity Man, America's annuity agent, licensed in all 50 states. Today's topic is a good one that might shock you and the public. And when I'm talking to you, you already own at least two annuities. It's true.
Get Your Annuity Income Ducks in a Row: Shootin' It Straight With Stan

Get Your Annuity Income Ducks in a Row: Shootin' It Straight With Stan

Chapter two of your life or retirement, whatever that means to you, is when you just need money hitting the bank account to go live your life. You can go however long that's going to be. Chapter two is going to be about you. It's going to be about lifestyle; it's going to be about reclaiming your health.
Your Retirement Plan Is Not an Annuity Game: Shootin’ It Straight With Stan

Your Retirement Plan Is Not an Annuity Game: Shootin’ It Straight With Stan

Today's topic is a good one. Listen up, lean in, get comfortable, and grab a coffee because what we will talk about is your retirement plan is not an annuity game. There are a lot of people in the annuity industry who are just looking for nails, and they're the hammer.
Annuity Decisions Should Be Simple & Contractual: Shootin' It Straight With Stan

Annuity Decisions Should Be Simple & Contractual: Shootin' It Straight With Stan

Today's topic is Annuity Decisions Should Be Simple and Contractual. They have to be both. They can't be one or the other. They got to be both. And let me explain that to you.
Annuities Will Do What You Contractually Need: Shootin' It Straight With Stan

Annuities Will Do What You Contractually Need: Shootin' It Straight With Stan

Today's topic is a very good one and one that I want to stick in the back of your head, your cerebellum, whatever that is. I want it to be what they say in the music industry, an earworm, meaning it's just stuck in there.
Don’t Buy Annuity Hypothetical Annuity Returns: Shootin' It Straight With Stan

Don’t Buy Annuity Hypothetical Annuity Returns: Shootin' It Straight With Stan

Today's topic is a good one that will inform the masses and upset some people trying to sell annuities, and it's titled 'Do Not Buy Annuity Hypothetical Returns.'
Annuities Can Have Flexible Income Start Dates: Shootin' It Straight With Stan

Annuities Can Have Flexible Income Start Dates: Shootin' It Straight With Stan

Today's topic is: Annuities Can Have Flexible Income Start Dates. A lot of people out there, when they talk about annuities, they think there's only one. "I won't buy an annuity because the annuity company keeps money when I die." That's one of 40 ways to structure it.
Belt & Suspenders Annuity Strategies: Shootin' It Straight With Stan

Belt & Suspenders Annuity Strategies: Shootin' It Straight With Stan

Today's topic is a great one, coming from the deep south of where I grew up in Charlotte, North Cackalacky. North Carolina, actually, the town, seriously, and I'm not kidding, look it up, it's called Stanley, North Carolina, just like it sounds.
Exchange Your Income Rider for a SPIA: Shootin' It Straight With Stan

Exchange Your Income Rider for a SPIA: Shootin' It Straight With Stan

Welcome to Shootin' It Straight With Stan. I am your host Stan The Annuity Man, America's annuity agent, licensed in all 50 states. I am so glad you joined me on this topic, which is a good one. And it came from my good friend, John Lenz. I call him the annuity architect.
Swallow the Seminar Food, Not the Annuity Pitch: Shootin’ It Straight With Stan

Swallow the Seminar Food, Not the Annuity Pitch: Shootin’ It Straight With Stan

Welcome to Shooting it Straight With Stan. I'm your host, Stan The Annuity Man - America's annuity agent, licensed in all 50 states. I'm so glad you joined me for a great topic. You saw it and said, "Okay, I got to see what he's going to say about this." The topic is: Swallow the Seminar Food, NOT the Annuity Pitch."
Increase Your Annuity Income Floor as You Age: Shootin’ It Straight With Stan

Increase Your Annuity Income Floor as You Age: Shootin’ It Straight With Stan

Today's topic is a good one: Increase Your Annuity Income Floor as You Age. In other words, that income floor, that amount that's hitting your bank account every single month, needs to be increased as you get older.
Annuity Income: Return OF or ON Your Money?: Shootin' It Straight With Stan

Annuity Income: Return OF or ON Your Money?: Shootin' It Straight With Stan

Today's topic is about annuity income. Is it the return of your money or a return on your money? So, return of, or return on. Great question, Stan The Annuity Man, America's annuity agent. Let's cover it.