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Today's topic is a good one. It's your CPA is not your financial advisor. I got a call the other day, and this is not a unicorn call. I get these all of the time. The lady that called me was, unfortunately, just widowed.

Steve Vernon is one of the most sought-after retirement experts in the country. He is the president of Rest-of-Life Communications, where he speaks, writes, and conducts research on the most challenging aspects of retirement, finances, health, and lifestyle.

Today's topic, we're talking about annuity retirement calculators and using SPIAs, DIAs, and QLAC for inflation, how to do that.

Let’s talk about Single Premium Immediate Annuities, the granddaddy of all annuities, and how that works.

Today's topic is payout rates versus interest rates. This is a big one. I recently did a talk on this to a large audience, and I thought I would bring it to you on my Shooting it Straight with Stan videos so you can hear it. There's a lot of confusion on this in the annuity world, payout rate, interest rate.

Paul Merriman’s 60-year legacy of helping people with their money is unmatched. His “tell the truth” passionate approach should be the benchmark for all financial advisors and is the obvious foundation for the current march to all things fiduciary.

I’m about to tell you what not to buy in the Annuity life insurance space in 2022 or what to be on the lookout for because the sales pitches are flawed.

Today's topic is the inverted annuity yield curve. Now, CNBC, Fox Business, and everybody in the newspapers and the Wall Street Journal are just writing these articles about the inverted yield curve. What is that?

Margaret “Peggy” Nicholson is one of a kind. A unicorn. She might be the most unique celebrity guest host of all the guests I’ve had on my Fun With Annuities podcast. She is a 78 ½-year-old dynamo and a world traveler.

Today's topic is your retirement portfolio. The secret weapon is annuities. That doesn't mean everybody needs one, but I will explain how annuities can give you peace of mind, that turnkey approach, that lifestyle you're looking for.Think again when you hear people say, "Don't buy an annuity."

Let's talk about getting quotes on my site, reverse engineering the quote, or lump sum.

Today's topic is a good one. I got to read from it because it just popped the other day. I've got to talk about that because I've been talking about it before, but it didn't have an acronym, and now it has an acronym, and that's cool. I like acronyms like PILL, principal protection, income for life, legacy, and long-term care.

Charles Rotblut is a Vice President and Financial Analyst at the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) and the editor of the AAII Journal. He is also the creator of the PRISM Wealth-Building Process.

I'm glad you joined me today. This is a great topic. We're making annuity comparisons; we’re doing Indexed Annuities, Fixed Index Annuities versus Multi-Year Guarantee Annuities

Glad you joined me. We're talking today on the ongoing series that we're doing about retirement withdrawal strategies using, in this case, Deferred Income Annuities, DIAs. This should be interesting. DIAs are relatively new. They're the sister, cousin, brother of the Single Premium Immediate Annuity.