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I'm amped, I'm ready to go. I feel good because we have a good topic today about multi-year guarantee annuities and how they solve for inflation, how they can solve for inflation, and at least address it in a pragmatic and contractual way. All righty then. We're going to talk about multi-year guarantee annuities.

Hi there. Stan The Annuity Man, America's Annuity Agent® licensed in all 50 states continuing our how-to buy an Annuity series, which people are going crazy over. They loved it because no one's ever talked about this before. Today's topic is how the paperwork process works.

Hi there, Stan The Annuity Man®, America's annuity agent®, licensed in all 50 states, talks about only one word today, inflation. Inflation, Stan The Annuity Man, let's talk about inflation. Let's talk about how annuities and social security can address inflation, the gorilla in the room, what everyone's talking about.

This topic today is part of the series that we're doing on how to buy an annuity. No, this isn't some veiled sales pitch, but yes, I do sell annuities. Yes, I would love to speak with you to see if an annuity type is right for your specific situation to solve a specific goal, but our How to Buy Annuity series covers specific topics.

Today’s topic is about indexed annuity scams and these back-tested return numbers that seem so good. It’s just pie in the sky. It’s an apple cobbler in the sky; it’s a peach cobbler in the sky. It should be peach cobbler because that’s my favorite dessert of all time, being from the South.

Welcome back to the mic Terry Savage for Fun With Annuities episode #82. I reached out to The MoneyLady®, Terry Savage, to hear her thoughts on the current market environment and her predictions and advice on how people can navigate these volatile times.

Glad you joined me today.

Today’s topic is a good one, a big one, an important one. What is suitable and appropriate when buying an annuity? It's detailed. I'm going to go through the reasons we have to go through the application process and ask you. There's a method behind the madness, as they say.

Today, we're talking about annuity returns potential versus contractual unicorns chasing the butterflies or the contractual realities.

The question is, what happens to an annuity if the stock market crashes? Are fixed index annuities good against a stock market crash? What if the insurance company backing it goes under? What's your protection? So let's take them one at a time.

Okay. So how much money do you need? That's a loaded question because how much money do you need from the standpoint of how much money do you need to work with The Annuity Man®, the minimum, and then how much money you need if you need to put in an income floor, also, if you need to fill in a gap for income, et cetera.

I really enjoyed having co-host Dan Prescher on the Fun With Annuities podcast #77 because his organization falls in line with my saying that “There’s no U-Hauls behind hearses!” In other words, you can’t take it with you, so enjoy life while you can.

Today, we're going to talk about the benefits that only annuities offer, and there's two unique benefits that we're going to talk about and go into detail and why it matters and why I think it's important as you consider an annuity in your portfolio.

I have come up with the appropriate nickname for John Lenz - The Annuity Mechanic. He can fix any situation, and he has seen everything over his 40-year career. As I said during the podcast, if there was such a thing as an "Annuity Room"

The question is, how does the economy affect annuity rates? That's a fundamental question to a very detailed answer because annuities are not all the same. The economy affects annuities differently. How does the economy affect annuity rates and annuities in general? Well, let's look at a myriad of ways.