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

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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stan
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the annuity man america's annuity agent
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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
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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
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short and maximize the yield by shopping
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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
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sizzle out there there's a lot of
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presentations and people if if you if
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you went to an agency i'm considering a
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mygo they're going to
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immediately tell you they can get you a
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better return
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with an index annuity or variable
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annuity they can hypothetically
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theoretically back tested hopeful
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unicorn chasing the butterfly maybe get
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you that
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but they can't contractually get you
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that and if you're wanting it to
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if you're going by the will do not might
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do the only duty for what it will do not
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what it might do
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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
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and if you're buying hopes and dreams
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and market returns then go
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buy market stuff don't in my opinion
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buy annuities annuities or contracts
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and we'll talk about other types you
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know indexed and variable annuities and
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those things
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in other podcasts so with
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most mygas i'd say 99 currently 98
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currently they do not have any attached
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writers or anything they're just
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straightforward
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hey here's the percentage we're going to
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pay for the specific period of time
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it's a contractual reality it's not a
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dream i always tell people
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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
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23:03
these podcasts because i'm going to keep
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digging into these products and going
23:07
deeper into strategies as well so with
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that my name is stan
23:11
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