Can I Transfer My Retirement Annuity To A Pension Fund?

October 2, 2026
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Can I Transfer My Retirement Annuity To A Pension Fund?
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Can you transfer your retirement annuity to a pension fund? In this video, I explain why transferring an annuity into a pension is generally not possible, what rare exceptions may exist, and why the comparison may make more sense in the opposite direction. Learn how to evaluate pension payout options, understand annuity income choices, and focus on what your retirement money can actually guarantee rather than hypothetical growth projections.

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00:00 Introduction to the Video
00:50 Can You Transfer An Annuity To A Pension?
01:28 What To Do With A Pension Instead
02:46 When To Consider Transferring Funds
03:44 How To Know If You Need An Annuity
04:39 Importance of Understanding Your Choices
06:00 Important Advice for Buyers
06:45 Helpful Annuity Resources
07:33 What To Consider When Transferring Funds
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  • 0:00 Introduction to the Video
  • 0:50 Can You Transfer An Annuity To A Pension?
  • 1:28 What To Do With A Pension Instead
  • 2:46 When To Consider Transferring Funds
  • 3:44 How To Know If You Need An Annuity
  • 4:39 Importance of Understanding Your Choices
  • 6:00 Important Advice for Buyers
  • 6:45 Helpful Annuity Resources
  • 7:33 What To Consider When Transferring Funds
  • 9:15 Next Video To Watch

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So, the question of the day is, can I

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transfer my retirement annuity to a

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pension or a pension fund? Hi there, my

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name is Stan the Annuity Man, America's

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annuity agent, licensed in all 50 states

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in Puerto Rico. Founder of CGO

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contractual guarantees only. You own an

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annuity for what it will do, not it what

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not what it might do. Not some

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hypothetical theoretical projected

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backtested hopeful unicorns chasing

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butterflies upfront bonus horse dood do

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sales pitch.

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But let's talk about can you transfer,

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how do you transfer, does it work, stand

0:36
the annuity man, hit us with your 30

0:38
years of wisdom even though you look so

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young. I'll do that after this.

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So, can you transfer your retirement

0:52
annuity? And again, there's many types

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of annuities, SPSDs, QAX, MAS,

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um, income writers, attached index

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annuities, uh, you got Rialas, variable

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annuities, etc. There's lots. But can

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you take that and transfer it to a

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pension? 99.9999999%

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of the time, you cannot. You cannot.

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Okay. Now, there might be this one

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really weird exception. You have to call

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your HR department at your company

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that's running that pension fund for

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your company because I'm assuming that's

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your question and ask them, can I can I

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transfer it? My comment would be in

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question. Why are you thinking about

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doing that? It should be the reverse.

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You should be taking the pension amount

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of money and considering it transferring

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it to an annuity in the outside world

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quoting all carriers for the highest

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contractual guarantee.

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If you're one of the nine, not 90, nine

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nine%

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of the people that have a pension in

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place from their workplace.

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First of all, congratulations.

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Um, not many people have that. you know,

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government workers, state workers,

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military, etc., some some good labor

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unions. But what you really need to look

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at is the pension payment that you're

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being offered by the company.

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You need to, okay, what are my choices

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and what's the guaranteed payout? Take

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those numbers and those details. Send me

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an email stantheanuityman.com

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and say Stan America's nuity agent

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licensed all 50 states of Puerto Rico

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founder CGO will do not do Stan please

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do a comparison quote with all carriers

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to see if that pension

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offer that I'm getting is good by the

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way 50 60% of the time it's good. The

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other part of that, you know, when we do

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the comparison quote, if if we can beat

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that quote with an A+ or better carrier,

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then you should consider transferring

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it. You own an annuity for what it will

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do, not what it might do. If the will do

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is higher than what you're being offered

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at your company, you should transfer it.

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If it's if it's higher at the company,

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stay there. I had a guy call me the

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other day, just this situation. I said,

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okay. It was a big company. I said,

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well, all right. Tell me the numbers.

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Tell me how you want it. He goes, well,

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just me and the wife. We we didn't have

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any kids. They want a joint life only.

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So, okay, what's the joint life only

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quote at the company the pension that

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you have that's that offer and then

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we'll run side by side apples to apples

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comparison quote that quote won not by

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much but it won and I said stay there

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and take it good company the company can

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back it up stay there and take it take

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that guarantee I'm going to tell you the

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truth as my grandfather told me a long

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time ago if you tell the truth you don't

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have to remember anything

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that's our business model just tell the

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truth annuities aren't perfect all of

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them have limitations and benefits. And

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you should only look at annuities to

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solve for four things. That acronym is

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PIL. P stands for principal protection.

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I stands for income for life. L stands

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for legacy. The other L stands for

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long-term care. And there's only two

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questions you ask. What do you want the

4:00
money to contractually do? And when do

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you want those contractual guarantees to

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start? From those two things, we can

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determine a if you don't need an

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annuity, and B, which annuity would

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provide the highest contractual

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guarantee while achieving the goal. But

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I've been doing this a long time and I

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don't even remember a time where you

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take an annuity

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in the outside world in the open market

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and transfer it into a pension annuity.

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I I put 99.99 just in case there was a

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weird company I didn't know about that

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mispriced things over here. And we've

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seen that we've seen mispricings happen

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before. One of the other things you need

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to understand if you're having if you

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have a pension type payment that's set

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up for you at work, it's very important

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for you to understand what choices they

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are providing because a lot of those

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don't provide the choices that you want

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like life with cash refund, life with

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installment refund, life with period

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certain, period certain. They might give

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you one or two choices. There's 45

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choices. We're going to give you all of

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them. If you go to my site, you can run

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anonymous quotes. Just put in your date

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of birth or dates of birth of joint,

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state of resident, okay, and gender. And

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you're get the quote anonymous. Not to

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put any any information. You're like,

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Stan, really? Do you I mean, they're

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same quotes as these other sites that

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make me sign up and then they email me

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to death. Yes. Just forget those. I

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mean, just go to the source, get the

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quotes you want anonymously, run them as

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many times as you want. In the future,

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look at the date of this table. in the

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future, everyone will do that because

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everyone will have to do that because if

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they don't, then everyone will come to

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me for the quotes. Same thing for this

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contractual guarantees only mantra that

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I'm on and my focus. You own an annuity

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for what it will do, not what it might

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do. When I started that a long time ago,

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people like that's crazy. Now,

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everybody's trying to go in that

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direction in some form or fashion. But

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still, they go to that growth story

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sometimes for the commission. Those

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growth products have the highest

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commission. Never buy an annuity for

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market growth, please. I I don't want to

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yell it because I don't want to lose my

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voice, but never ever ever buy an

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annuity for non-g guaranteed return

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numbers. If somebody says you, well, if

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you'd have owned it 10 years ago, son,

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this is what you'd have made. Give me a

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break.

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That should be illegal. If I'm annuities

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are for the not for a day, for infinity,

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that goes away. Upfront bonuses go away.

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All the nonsense goes away. We strip

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everything down. All annuities would

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have the same low low low low low

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compressed commission so there wouldn't

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be any agendas. Sounds good. It does

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sound good. It'll never happen.

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I don't know why. Maybe. I'm not going

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to say never. I'm I'm doing a video a

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day out here. By the way, you can email

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me direct stantheanuityman.com.

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I would encourage you to go to my site,

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download the books. I have six owners

6:52
manuals. SPDS, QAX income writers, SPD

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income writers, MAS,

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um, index annuities.

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That's six.

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Six

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for free. And I'm rewriting the annuity

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manifesto. And you're saying, Stan,

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what's an annuity manifesto? Could be

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the best book ever written 14 years ago.

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Now I'm going to update it 14 years

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later. Still alive and kicking. That'll

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be coming out in 2027. If you want your

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free copy, send me an email. We'll get

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you a free copy. Or you can make the

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queen of 38 years, my wife, happy and go

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to Amazon and buy it. She would love

7:31
that.

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But the question was, should I transfer

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my current annuity to my pension

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annuity, my retirement annuity to my

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pension annuity? Probably not. But you

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should consider looking at this one to

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to transfer out for the highest

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contractual guarantee. Remember, highest

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contractual guarantee. The other thing,

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and I'll close with this.

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Guy called me the other day and he goes,

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"Well, Stain, is this a good time to

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buy? You know, this are the guarantees

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at a good a good level?" I'm like,

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"Listen, man. The bell doesn't ring at

8:03
the top or the bottom. I don't know."

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And no, and if anyone says they know,

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they're lying to you. They're throwing a

8:08
dart at it. What you need to look at is

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the contractual guarantee that you're

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considering. If that seems fair to you,

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lock it in.

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Lock it in. You're not going to hit it

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at the top. You've never hit anything at

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the top markets. I love that. People,

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well, is this a good time to buy? Should

8:25
we time it? Like the timing you've done

8:27
in the markets? You mean like that? You

8:29
haven't timed that. Well, have you?

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Well, I've been killing it recently.

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It's a bull market, player. Don't con

8:36
don't confuse genius with the bull

8:38
market. Any monkey or trout fish can

8:41
throw a dart. If a trout had arms, they

8:43
could throw a dart at this thing and

8:45
make money. But you and I both know it's

8:47
eventually going to go up and down,

8:49
right? Put your guarantees in place. Put

8:52
your income floor in place. Own

8:55
annuities for what they will do, not

8:56
what they might do. Schedule a call. You

8:59
might get me. How about that? Wouldn't

9:00
that be just festive? Me and you on the

9:03
phone.

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There's no agendas. I'm just going to

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use these and this and the same

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proportion ratio. Two to one. I'm going

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to listen to you and I'm going to tell

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you the truth. All right. Hey, one last

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thing. There's a spinning clock above

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me. There's a video I did on how to run

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and properly run uh annuity calculators

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and and run annuity quotes. I did a

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video on that that refers to my site,

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which is the only site on the planet

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that allows you to run them anonymously.

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Take a look at that. It's very

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important. I hope you go there and test

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it out and because you're going to like

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it because you don't have to put in your

9:37
name, you don't have to put in your

9:38
email, and you don't have to put in your

9:40
phone number. just your gender, date of

9:42
birth, and state of residence to get the

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best quotes in the country. My name is

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Stan the Annuity Man, author of the

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Annuity Stifesto one and soon to be

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published Annuity Stifesto 2. We'll see

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you next time.

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