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Hi, I'm Stan, The Annuity Man, America's Annuity agent® licensed in all 50 states. Should you get out of your annuity? We're going to cover that and talk about market value, adjustments, and surrender charges comparing to other annuities.

We're talking today about how to buy an annuity. Don't get all crazy out there that I'm not just pinching and selling. What we're going to talk about today are the questions that you need to answer when considering if an annuity of any type is valid. Should you buy an annuity?

With our “friends” in Washington, DC spending money at historic levels it’s common sense that taxes are probably going to go up and politicians will be targeting existing tax-saving strategies.

I’m so glad you joined me for the continuing series of how to buy an annuity and know this isn't unveiled, sales pitch, bad chicken dinner seminar nonsense. We're doing a series on how to buy an annuity because we get a ton of questions. Today's topic on buying an annuity is what age is too old or too young to buy an annuity?

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.

After Jack Lenenberg first appeared on the Fun With Annuities podcast, I was inundated with questions from people wanting to know if they could qualify for Long Term Care (LTC) coverage.

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.

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.

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