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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.

It’s great to have Tom Hegna back on the FWA podcast to talk about how "Mortality Credits" are the key to lifetime income pricing with annuities. He told a great story that simply explained how mortality credits work.

So you're looking for the best MYGA annuity rates? You can find the best MYGA rates at stantheannuityman.com. It has live feeds of the best MYGA fixed-rate annuity rates in the country. And you can filter it by your state of residence.

Today we're talking about the tax advantages of a QLAC, a qualified longevity annuity contract. If you don't know about them, you need to know about them. Because I think, in a perfect world, QLACs would be the number one selling product in the country when it comes to annuities. That's the way it should be.

Young. Smart. The Future. The Truth. Jamie Hopkins fits all of those descriptions and is a true thought leader in the world of Retirement Income Planning. Jamie is a managing partner of Wealth Solutions, a finance professor at Creighton University, and has both an MBA and Law Degree.

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.

We went aspirational with this week’s Fun With Annuities® Celebrity Co-host Loren Feldman, editor-in-chief of 21 Hats. When my PR team booked Loren for FWA episode #79, I was fascinated with his expertise in covering entrepreneurs for such titans as Forbes.

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.

So what are your four choices at the end of your MYGA term? Make sure you know your options so you can make the best decision for your specific situation. Let’s go.

If there was an “Annuity Mt. Rushmore”, this week’s co-host Wade Pfau would be one of those infamous faces on the side of that retirement mountain. If there was ever a true retirement expert, it is Wade.

So you're looking for income, and you want to know the difference between a lifetime income benefit rider and what's called annuitization. An annuitization means creating payments. With 10,000 baby boomers retiring every day, most people are looking for income and contractual guarantees.

Today we're talking about annuity comparisons, QLACs, Qualified Longevity Annuity Contracts, versus DIAs, Deferred Income Annuities. We are going to compare them. We're going to talk about how they differ, how they're the same, why you should look at them, and why you shouldn't look at them. In other words, the brutal facts, because, as you know, I'm the walking middle finger of annuity truth.

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 talking about annuity comparisons, QLACs, Qualified Longevity Annuity Contracts, versus DIAs, Deferred Income Annuities. We are going to compare them. We're going to talk about how they differ, how they're the same, why you should look at them, and why you shouldn't look at them.