004: What is a Multi-Year Guarantee Annuity (MYGA)?

October 20, 2020
24 min
004: What is a Multi-Year Guarantee Annuity (MYGA)?
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IN THIS EPISODE, THE ANNUITY MAN DISCUSS:
- What is a MYGA and how does it work
- The benefits and limitations of a MYGA
- Differences and similarities between a MYGA and a CD
- How to ladder MYGAs to take advantage of future interest rates

KEY TAKEAWAYS:
- MYGAs (Multi-Year Guarantee Annuities) are a fixed rate annuity and are the annuity industry’s version of a CD
- MYGAs usually offer a higher rate than CDs if the duration is 3+ years out
- MYGAs & CDs can be combined for fixed-rate laddering strategies
- Some MYGAs allow you to peel off the interest every month for additional income needs

"Multi-Year Guarantee Annuities (MYGAs) are the annuity industry’s version of a CD." — The Annuity Man

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welcome to

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fun with annuities with your host me

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stan

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the annuity man america's annuity agent

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truth which is all you need to hear

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let's have some fun with annuities and

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let's have that fun start

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right now

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hey this is stan the annuity man and

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welcome to fun

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with annuities today we're going to talk

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about mygas m-y-g-a

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mygas is fixed-rate annuity it's the

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annuity industry's version

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of a cd you're probably never going to

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hear about them from your agent at the

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bad chicken dinner seminar because the

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commissions are very very low

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unfortunately they're not going to show

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that to you i think these are great

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products if you're a cd buyer or you

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like

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principal protection just getting an

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interest rate migas are fantastic

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i'm the number one agent in the country

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licensed in all 50 states and i don't

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say that

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boastingly i'm just telling you a fact

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and one of the reasons i'm there

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is because i've embraced these

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simplistic products contractual

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guarantees only products

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i'll guarantee you that i'm the number

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one myga guy out here because

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you know we have a live feed on our site

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if you go to the annuityman.com

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we have a feed there that shows the best

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national rates and you can filter it by

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your state and by the duration you know

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one two three four and five year

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you can look at it it's live you can see

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you don't have to sign up for anything

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you can see what the rates are

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and i want people to understand that

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these are available

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and so because we've made it transparent

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i think that that has

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just set us apart and i love these

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products because they're easy to

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understand

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if you bought a cd i mean this is no

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different from the standpoint of

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you're getting an interest rate for a

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specific period of time contractually

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but we'll go over the difference between

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cds and migas the cd is not better than

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a mig and a mic is not better than cd

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they're just pretty much the same thing

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so what i'm the outline for this podcast

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is the book that i i've written one of

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the seven books

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my gut owner's manual you can get it at

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my site

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the annuityman.com i'll ship it to you

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for free without obligation

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i won't bother you or pester you i won't

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have anyone call you or show up at the

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door

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we'll send it to you and then you can go

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to the live feed and look at all the

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rates

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and and decide for yourself if a miga

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makes sense

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so my go owners man you need to get one

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i'm holding one in my hand

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you'll probably hear pages flip because

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i'm flipping pages to make sure i'm

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going over everything in this podcast

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but as with all products i start with

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the limitations so let's go through the

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limitations and benefits

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the limitations of mygas

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like for instance if you buy a five year

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my five year guarantee

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the surrender charges are high in other

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words if you get to year two or three

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and say

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you know what stand on and do that

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anymore send me all my money the

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surrender charges to get out

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whole you know get out with all your

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money they're they're predatory so you

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have to know that going in there

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they're locking these rates in and the

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annuity companies don't want you

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being able to pivot they're going to

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guarantee that rate for that specific

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period of time

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but if you pivot it's going to cost you

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a surrender charge to get out that's a

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limitation

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other limitations guarant the guarantees

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are backed by the carrier

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yes there are state guarantee funds but

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you should not make your decision based

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on that you should make your decision

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based on

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the claims paying ability of the

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issuing carrier so that that could be a

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limitation right we have to discuss that

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and go over the the ratings and the

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conduct scores and things like that

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and currently the short the shortest

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term migra right now is one year

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typically there's not a lot of choices

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in one year there's a lot of choices on

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the three year

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but as with cds you can get them you

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know six months and 18 months and things

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like that

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like i said the cds aren't better than

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mike's migrants aren't better than cds

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one of the limitations is

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right now from an inventory standpoint

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three years is kind of the shortest even

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though there's a couple companies that

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deal

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one year but in my opinion if you're

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gonna do one year by cd

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and by the way i don't sell cds i'm just

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saying and the best place to shop cds is

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bankrate.com

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in my opinion the best place to shop

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migrates is the annuityman.com

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because we have the live feed and i

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guess the other limitation is

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not all carriers offer migas i guess

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it's just part of their business plan

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not all of them do some of them do some

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of them specialize in if you go to the

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live feed on my site

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you'll see some names you you've heard

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of and some names you haven't there's

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hundreds and hundreds and hundreds

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of annuity companies and by the way

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annuities are issued by life insurance

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companies okay

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but with that being said i think the

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last limitation is

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and it's in the limitation but when you

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take money out of an annuity

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of miga it's taxed lasting first out of

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ordinary income

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so it's tax gains first interest

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interest first so

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those are the limitations let's go over

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the benefits real quick and then we'll

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dive into the product even deeper

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number one with my guess there's no

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annual fees similar to a cd it's just

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just a you know

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a specific interest rate for a specific

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period of time very simplistic

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very it's contractual so you you know

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you can filter that on my live feed or

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you can say

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hey i just want a three year what's the

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best three year guarantee

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the interest rate annually is

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contractual they can't change it during

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that duration time period

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they can after it if you don't transfer

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to get the money out but during that

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time period they can't

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it's contractual and rates are typically

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migra rates are typically higher than

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cds

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three years in out i always tell people

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if your time horizon is three years and

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in

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you probably want to buy cds if your

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time horizons three years and out

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my gas will probably beat cds so in a

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laddering standpoint if you said stan i

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want to do a one two three four and five

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year ladder of fixed rates

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the one in the two year would be cds the

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three four and five year would be mygas

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because why will do not might do you buy

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an annuity for what it will do not what

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it might you're buying for the highest

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contractual guarantees

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only and under that standpoint typically

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migas three years in out

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offer higher interest rates than

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cds and i say typically there's there's

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anomalies here and there but but

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you know majority of the time that's the

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case

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here's one of the main differences

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between a cd and a myga

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multi-year guarantee annuity fixed rate

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annuity you can call it what you want

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with a cd and a non-ira account you have

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to pay taxes on that interest

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every year with a multi-year guarantee

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annuity in a non-ira account

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the interest compounds tax deferred

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now yes when you bring it out you have

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to pay taxes but

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if you say i just want to rate but i

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don't want to pay taxes on every year i

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just want to defer it

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then a migo works because it just

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compounds tax deferred

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that's the primary difference between

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the two products from a structure

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standpoint

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now from a safety standpoint cds are

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backed by fdic which i think is the

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strongest backing on the planet

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you know i know there's arguments about

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the federal government and the debt i'm

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just saying

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realistically f stands for federal

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that's the best backing you can get so

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you know

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their state guarantee funds back

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annuities but at the end of the day it's

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the claims paying ability of the carrier

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but the difference the the main

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structural difference is that

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the interest rate in a non-ira account

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compounds tax deferred now in an ira

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account whether it's a cd

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or a miga and you can use these in both

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it's an ira

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you know it's deferred anyway so you

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don't you'll have double deferral right

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i guess a benefit i think is low

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commissions to the agent i'm the number

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one mega guy out here i think

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i can't imagine anyone focusing on them

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more than i do

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because i love them i think they're

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they're simplistic and they're

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good for the the consumer because the

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consumer just is looking for a place for

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safe money most people most

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most people out there are just looking

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for some safe money alternatives

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but the commissions are very low and

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they're easy to understand with no

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moving parts

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which i think you know i keep saying

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this in all my podcasts if you can't

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explain it to a nine-year-old or a

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seven-year-old no offense to those

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people

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those kids then you shouldn't buy it

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it's the warren buffett rule if you

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don't understand it don't buy it

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these are very simplistic you understand

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cds

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you know you you lock it in for a

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specific term and every

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every year you get paid a specific

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interest rate

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with with multi-year guarantee annuities

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you're going to get an annual statement

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because there's no moving parts it is

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what it is

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so with that being said let's kind of

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jump in

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and i'll go through i'm flipping the

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book you know i've got some notes but

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i'm also flipping through the book

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because the mica owner's manual is

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pretty

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all-inclusive when it comes to all this

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stuff so that's the limitations

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and benefits when you look at the fixed

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rate world

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you know there's the fixed index which

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is a fixed product and we'll talk about

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that in another podcast

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but that returns based on an indexed

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option

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it's pretty complicated but with the

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myga fixed rate annuity

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the returns is a contractual number it's

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something that when you see the policy

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it'll tell you exactly what that number

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is going to be

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i like micah's because you don't

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have to take the money out you can roll

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like for instance if you bought a

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five-year my ga and you said

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i really don't need the money year five

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and i don't really need the money stand

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we can just roll it to another mygo

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meaning transfer it

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the irs has a code the section is 1035

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and 1035

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says irs code 1035 says that you can

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transfer one annuity to another annuity

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without tax consequences now you can

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if you have your your myga inside of an

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ira you can transfer it from ira to ira

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without tax consequences but in a

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non-qualified setting

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setting you can transfer from one

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annuity to another and just keep

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hockey analogy pushing the tax puck down

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the ice

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and i like that so you can just roll it

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and roll it and roll it

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i am also a big proponent with my guess

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of

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laddering micas first of all if you ask

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me hey what do you think about interest

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rates i'm gonna say i've been at

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three decades and i have no clue the

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longer you're in the financial services

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business

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the more that you understand that you

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cannot predict any of this stuff

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especially interest rates so with that

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being said i'll tell someone that says

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hey

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if you have three hundred thousand

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dollars why not consider buying a three

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year a four year and a five year my ga

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and splitting it hundred and hundred and

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hundred why because you'll have money

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coming due starting in year three

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and then every year after that and then

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hopefully

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we can attach and transfer to a higher

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interest rate at that point in time

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so i love laddering migas for my clients

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because

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it's a simplistic way to to lock in safe

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money to get a guaranteed interest rate

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and to not

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time rates because nobody can time

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interest rates now my guests have

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nothing to do with lifetime income

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okay it's an interest rate product just

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like a cd

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some migas allow you to take out the

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interest

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on a monthly basis some i guess do not

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on my feed at the annuityman.com that

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live feed i told you about

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we'll show you there whether it allows

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you to take money out or not some do

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some don't

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yeah the ones that don't obviously pay a

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higher percentage annually

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but not all the time that's not the the

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determining factor but they're not all

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they're not all the same even though

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they're somewhat of a commodity product

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so you have to look and and you have to

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say you have to answer the two questions

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what do you want the money to

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contractually do

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and when you want those contractual

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guarantees to start from that if you say

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hey stan i want this my god but i want

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to be able to peel off the interest

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every month

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then we have to go shop for that one

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right we have to go shop the best

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mic is out there that allow you to do

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that or if you say you know i don't

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really care in five years

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i'm not i don't plan on touching it

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let's just go get the best interest rate

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then let's

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we'll shop for that but once again

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i don't know these things change that's

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the reason there's a live feed on my

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site that you can look at

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at your leisure without having to sign

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up or give your name you just

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click it and then filter it and it'll

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it'll show

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it's very easy to understand and very

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simplistic to use

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we get a lot of compliments about that

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and it was designed for that because

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i'm not some techie person and i want

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people to be able to access the

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information on their own own terms

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without having any hindrance to do that

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currently i'm telling people to you know

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look at a five

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year as kind of the limit of you know

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where we should be locking in the long

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term i don't think you should go past

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five that might change if interest rates

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change

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but currently i think five years is max

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and you could go farther out but if you

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look at the feed and you pull up the

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five year in the seven year and the

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tenure

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there's not a lot of benefit proposition

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for you to go longer they're not

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rewarding you for going longer

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in the term so that's that's the thing

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10-year treasury is the bogey that's

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what you need to be looking at at all

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times

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that's somewhat of the driving factor

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it's not 100

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of the driving factor because companies

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price these

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migas based on their overall portfolio

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bonds from way back in the day etc

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but the 10-year treasury is the buggy if

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the 10-year treasury moves

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either north or south then you might see

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the miga things move always kid people

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they say well do they move quickly when

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it moves up no it's kind of interesting

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i don't know

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if there's a study on this but just me

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observing to stand the annuity man and

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the miga dude out here when rates lower

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it seems like the annuity companies move

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pretty quickly or quicker

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and when rates go up they drag their

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feet just a tad

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and maybe that's just me looking at it

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through a jaded lens but

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it seems that way but they do they do

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it's a commoditized world so if somebody

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moves

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the others are going to move with it or

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choose not to and lose the business so i

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mean you're the winner

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either way but there's just no timing in

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other words if rates move up

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you know i can't tell you that within 10

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or 15 or 30 days things are going to

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change i can't tell you that

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it's kind of like the kids you know

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turning the jump rope and the kid

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for people out there to remember that i

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mean young kids don't even know what

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that is but for us

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old people we remember turning the jump

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rope and then trying to time it to get

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in

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it's kind of like that with pricing and

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interest rate movements yeah the annuity

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carriers are watching each other and

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they're just seeing what other people do

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and then they all

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you know they all react based upon their

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goals and what kind of money they're

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going to raise with the interest rates

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etc

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but i like the compounding interest of

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omega in a non-ira account i think that

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is

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that is a positive because you got to

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remember

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in the world that we live in there's

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really five safe money places in the

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world

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and and of course the tinfoil hat people

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can argue against this all day long and

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say

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you're wrong stan here are the five okay

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cds money markets

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aaa aaa municipal bonds treasuries

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and fixed rate annuities those are the

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five i'll do them again cds mygas wcds

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money markets

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aaa aaa municipal bonds treasuries

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and fixed rate annuities those are the

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five safe money places

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in my opinion and people always are

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looking to maximize yield

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once you start chasing those extra

15:13
percentage points or in the industry we

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call them basis points

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once you start chasing that is when you

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start putting your money at risk

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now the tinfoil hat people are going to

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say well the treasury i've got arguments

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against that and there's there's

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there's arguments against everything

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right but in the real world

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in the rational world that we live in

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where nothing's perfect

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those are the five places for safe money

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and migas fit there

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so for people that just do not want to

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lose anything

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and they just want an interest rate

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those are the places to go

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and in a low interest rate environment

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nothing's perfect and nothing seems high

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enough

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especially for the people that have

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lived through the jimmy carter years

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where interest rates were so

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so high we're probably never going we

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in our age group and and will probably

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never see that again

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in our lifetime maybe we will but i

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don't think so i think we're in a new

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norm

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where rates are going to be low for for

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a while

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but you know who knows don't try to time

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it keep the maturity

16:13
short and maximize the yield by shopping

16:17
all carriers whether you're shopping for

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cds or

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shopping for migas so

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myga to me is just owning the

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contractual stake there's a lot of

16:26
sizzle out there there's a lot of

16:28
presentations and people if if you if

16:30
you went to an agency i'm considering a

16:32
mygo they're going to

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immediately tell you they can get you a

16:35
better return

16:36
with an index annuity or variable

16:38
annuity they can hypothetically

16:40
theoretically back tested hopeful

16:42
unicorn chasing the butterfly maybe get

16:45
you that

16:46
but they can't contractually get you

16:48
that and if you're wanting it to

16:50
if you're going by the will do not might

16:52
do the only duty for what it will do not

16:54
what it might do

16:55
mantra stantra that i go by then

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you're going to buy a myga you're not

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going to buy the hopes and dreams

17:02
and if you're buying hopes and dreams

17:03
and market returns then go

17:05
buy market stuff don't in my opinion

17:08
buy annuities annuities or contracts

17:12
and we'll talk about other types you

17:14
know indexed and variable annuities and

17:16
those things

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in other podcasts so with

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most mygas i'd say 99 currently 98

17:24
currently they do not have any attached

17:26
writers or anything they're just

17:28
straightforward

17:29
hey here's the percentage we're going to

17:30
pay for the specific period of time

17:33
it's a contractual reality it's not a

17:34
dream i always tell people

17:36
you're either going to buy agent dreams

17:38
or you're going to buy contractual

17:39
realities and even if you buy the agent

17:41
dream

17:41
you're owning the contractual reality so

17:43
let's just own the contractual reality

17:45
from the start

17:47
once again my guests don't have any fees

17:49
annual fees that the commissions that

17:51
are built in and hidden from you are low

17:53
which is the reason you don't see it you

17:54
can own it in anything ira 9ra you can

17:56
own it in a roth

17:58
always look at the you know the

17:59
surrender charges on it as well

18:01
and also understand that there's a free

18:02
look period i mean if with all annuities

18:05
once they're issued

18:06
depending on your state because

18:07
annuities are issued and regulated

18:10
fixed annuities at the state level

18:11
there's a free look time period you can

18:13
get your money back if things have

18:14
changed or you just decided you didn't

18:15
want to do

18:16
i tell you what to me that's the

18:18
annuities

18:19
best value proposition as an industry

18:22
we're the only industry in the world

18:24
that can let you test drive a product

18:26
and then get your money back if you

18:27
don't want

18:28
it i think that's good and i'm okay and

18:31
there you don't have to give a reason

18:32
that's the other thing i just want my

18:34
money back the carriers don't come back

18:35
and say

18:36
why no they just send you your money

18:37
back because it's the law

18:39
so i i really like that so to end the

18:42
podcast let's go through some

18:44
frequently asked questions and and i'm

18:46
gonna you know flip through the

18:48
owner's manual in the back of the my

18:49
owner's manual frequently ask questions

18:51
and i might

18:52
they might be repetitive i might have

18:53
already covered them but we'll go

18:54
through them quickly and also remember

18:55
you can go to

18:57
the annuityman.blog and i have

19:00
i have answered i've gone through a

19:01
litany i'm building a huge inventory of

19:04
frequently asked questions of which

19:05
you'll see the question and then

19:06
underneath it

19:08
you'll be able to hit a play button and

19:09
listen to me answer it

19:11
and i'm very proud of that and working

19:13
hard of that every day to just keep

19:15
building and building and building that

19:16
inventory

19:17
so that you know you'll understand

19:21
what's out there and the truth about it

19:22
so let's go through the frequently asked

19:24
questions

19:25
and go from there difference between a

19:27
mic and a cd

19:28
that's that's always the question

19:29
remember the primary difference is the

19:32
fact in a non-ira account the interest

19:34
on a cd you have to pay taxes on in the

19:36
interest in a miga

19:38
differs that doesn't mean you don't ever

19:40
pay tax on you just can defer it until

19:42
you pull it out which i think is is a

19:44
good

19:44
deal how safe is a myga i get that

19:47
question a lot

19:47
it depends on the claims paying ability

19:49
of the carrier

19:51
each state has what's called a state

19:53
guarantee fund

19:55
that agents can't use in a sales pitch

19:57
they can't say buy this because of the

19:58
state guarantee fund

20:00
but they're they back up annuities to a

20:04
specific amount every state's different

20:06
and i think i'm going to give you the

20:08
correct website address it's www

20:11
n is in nancy o'zen oscar ellis and

20:13
larry h is in harry g is in gary

20:16
a n-o-l-h-g-a com

20:22
that's the state guarantee association

20:23
you can look up what that limitation is

20:26
for your specific state people always

20:28
ask me

20:29
hey stan how long should i lock these

20:31
things in

20:33
right now you know you'd have to kind of

20:34
push me a little bit to go past five

20:36
years but i'm okay with like a three

20:37
five and a seven year my

20:39
ladder as long as you have some shorter

20:40
durations in there

20:42
but i really don't want you to go longer

20:43
than that just because when you go to

20:45
the miga feed at my site the

20:46
annuityman.com you'll see

20:48
that there's not a lot of benefit

20:50
proposition for locking in longer

20:53
okay so you know should you buy cd or

20:55
miga

20:56
it depends on you know your time horizon

20:59
if your time arises three years in in or

21:01
one to two and a half years it's cds if

21:03
it's three years now

21:04
it's my guess just because you're gonna

21:06
find the best rates

21:08
there so short term cds love cds don't

21:11
sell cds but i love them they're great

21:13
because they're contractual they're easy

21:14
to understand their transfer of risk

21:16
right

21:17
same thing with mygus it's just that

21:18
three years now my guests typically win

21:21
and and this is what i always get

21:23
because people are always getting

21:24
pitched indexing news which are very

21:26
very complex

21:27
and then you know i tell them about a

21:29
myga multi-year guarantee annuity fixed

21:31
rate annuity and they're like

21:33
you know is that as simple as it seems

21:34
yeah it is it's a cd it's very

21:37
it's very simplistic very easy to

21:39
understand

21:40
one thing's people always say well they

21:42
buy these mangas at maybe high rates and

21:44
they want to add too

21:45
bad money to the mica i guess this is

21:48
the limitation as well you cannot add

21:50
money to a miga

21:51
after it's issued for 99 of the carriers

21:54
okay

21:55
you'd have to just go shop for another

21:57
myga if you want to add money

21:59
so once you lock it in it's locked in

22:01
some allow you to add money

22:03
before it's issued in other words you

22:05
send the money oh my goodness i want to

22:06
do

22:07
more you can send it before it's issued

22:08
but i think i would say

22:10
carte blanche across the board most of

22:13
them don't allow

22:14
you to add after that not all carriers

22:18
you know offer migas which is you know

22:21
good and bad just some of them don't

22:22
have that in there

22:23
and their business model and a lot of

22:25
people always ask me

22:26
you know stan why don't why doesn't my

22:28
favorite carrier whatever the name that

22:30
is

22:30
all for my guess it's just not what they

22:33
do

22:34
you know there's some companies that

22:35
specialize in

22:37
in migas and there's some companies that

22:38
specialize in immediate annuities and

22:40
there's some companies that specialize

22:42
in

22:42
in other products but that's the reason

22:44
you have to shop all carriers and

22:46
typically you know migrates change

22:49
pretty frequently and on the site

22:52
the live live mica feed you know we show

22:54
you when the rates change et cetera so

22:56
that's mine is that's fixed rate annuity

22:58
something that you really need to look

22:59
at for your safe money

23:00
i'm glad you joined us i hope you keep

23:02
joining us for

23:03
these podcasts because i'm going to keep

23:05
digging into these products and going

23:07
deeper into strategies as well so with

23:09
that my name is stan

23:11
the annuity man and you have been

23:12
listening to fun with annuity see you

23:14
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23:16
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23:33
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