How Do Annuities Work In Simple Terms?

September 19, 2026
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How Do Annuities Work In Simple Terms?
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What if understanding annuities could actually be simple? In this video, I break down how annuities work in simple terms, explaining the different annuity types, why you should focus on what an annuity is contractually guaranteed to do rather than hypothetical growth, and how annuities can create an income floor while allowing the rest of your retirement assets to remain invested.

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00:00 Introduction to the Video
01:07 Important Advice Before Buying Annuities
01:41 Annuities Explained In Simple Terms
02:31 Why We're The Top Platform In The Annuity Industry
03:44 How We Can Help You Buy Annuities
05:34 How Annuities Are Non-Correlated Assets
06:41 How Different Annuity Types Work
07:16 Common Mistake To Avoid
08:22 Helpful Annuity Resources
09:30 Next Video To Watch

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  • 00:00 Introduction to the Video
  • 01:07 Important Advice Before Buying Annuities
  • 01:41 Annuities Explained In Simple Terms
  • 02:31 Why We're The Top Platform In The Annuity Industry
  • 03:44 How We Can Help You Buy Annuities
  • 05:34 How Annuities Are Non-Correlated Assets
  • 06:41 How Different Annuity Types Work
  • 07:16 Common Mistake To Avoid
  • 08:22 Helpful Annuity Resources
  • 09:30 Next Video To Watch

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Hi there, Stan the annuity man.

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America's annuity agent licensed in all

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50 states in Puerto Rico. So how do

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annuities work in simple terms Stan? Be

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simple Stan

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simpleton simple Stan Rumple Stillilskan

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I don't know we can break it down but as

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you know if you if you just stumbled

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across me this is your first video with

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Stan the Nudman welcome. But you're

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going to find out that this is what I

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do. I put things in simple terms so you

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can understand them because there's a

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lot of gobbledygook nonsense. There's a

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lot of confusion that is put out there

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for a reason to confuse you. Um, and

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there's a lot of high pressure nonsense.

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We're going to rip all of that off. I

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guess rip the rip the scab off the Is

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that the way I should say? I'm gonna rip

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off the scab and put it in simple terms

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after this.

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I think those rip off the band-aid.

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But, you know, if you're if you're poor,

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you don't have band-aids.

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You just have scabs.

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[laughter]

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Annuities in simple terms, they're

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contracts. Okay? Um, if you if you take

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one thing from this video is do not buy

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annuities for potential. Do not buy

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annuities for hypotheticals. Do not buy

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annuities for back tested. Do not buy

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annuities for upfront bonuses. Do not

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buy annuities for non guaranteed

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returns,

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hopes and dreams, and unicorns chasing

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the butterflies.

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Do not go to expensive steak dinner

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seminar and go, "That sounds pretty

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good. I hope it works. If it does, it's

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going to be great. It's not going to

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work, and it's only great for the agent

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selling it." Annuities in simple terms

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comes down to comes down to the acronym

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pill that I came up with which is what

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annuities contractually solve for. P

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stands for principal protection. I

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stands for income for life. L stands for

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legacy. The other L is long-term care.

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That's it. There's no M for market.

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There's no S for stock. There's no B for

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Bitcoin. Annuities are contractual

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guarantees. You ask two questions. What

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do you want the money to contractually

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do? And you answer that question. And

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then when do you want those contractual

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guarantees to start? You do not buy

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dreams, you buy contractual realities.

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Life insurance companies issue

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annuities. And when you get your

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annuity, you're going to get a policy,

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which is a contract. So why not buy the

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contractual guarantee

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and not the agent sales pitch? There

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should be no sales pitch with annuities.

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Well, I just heard this a sales pitch

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nightmare out there. It is. Now, we're

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number one for a reason. We're the top

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direct to consumer um platform on the

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planet. Someone commented the other day.

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I saw this. I get all these people send

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me these people hate you. Of course they

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hate me. I'm changing the industry. The

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industry hates you. Here's what they

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said that you're not direct consumer. Uh

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yes. Yes, we are. [laughter] Okay.

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Define it however you want to.

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We don't meet with any clients face to

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face. You buy it directly from us. We

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represent the companies. I guess to them

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they think it's direct. It's direct from

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the annuity companies themselves. And

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there's only a couple of those and

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they're they're not they're great, but I

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mean they're they're not setting the

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world on fire. We're setting the world

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on fire. Why? Because we don't look at

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the name. We don't look at the the logo.

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We only look at the contractual

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guarantee for lifetime income. It's A+

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or better and the highest number. A+ or

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better, the highest number. A+ or

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better, the highest number. But stand is

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do you not like you know western,

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northern, southern, eastern? Just made

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that up. Don't care. A+ a better and the

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highest number. Here's the other thing

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that we do differently other than we're

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open 12 hours a day, Monday through

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Friday and eight hours on Saturday.

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That's 68 hours a week. That's

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unmatched. Nobody's even close. We'd be

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open on Sunday, but I want to re remain

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married to my lovely wife Christine of

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38 years because if that happens, she's

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out. Okay? She's out. that ain't doing

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God's work, you know? And I don't want I

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don't want to make him mad at all. He's

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probably already mad at me. You know

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what I'm saying? But we're open all I

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mean, [sighs and gasps] Las Vegas,

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Nevada, 5:30 in the morning to 5:30 at

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night, which is 8:30 in the morning to

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8:30 at night Eastern.

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We do that to work around your schedule.

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You can go to my site and run quotes

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without putting your information in.

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Just your date of birth, your gender,

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and your state of residence and get the

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quote.

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the only ones doing that. We're the only

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ones with the guts and the balls to do

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that. I'm not trying to build a

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database. I'm trying to change the

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industry. And we are changing the

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industry. We're number one for a reason.

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I'm contrarian.

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I'm I'm not just contrarian to be

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contrarian. I'm contrarian because this

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is the way to do it.

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You can go to my site, download owners

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manuals. You can see live migaheds. You

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can go to my You can watch videos. I've

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done 2,000

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in counting. Do one every day. I've

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committed to do one every day until they

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take me away.

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They tap me on the shoulder and the the

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two guys in the white suits say, "Stan,

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it's time for you to leave now. We're

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going to go to the other studio." The

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other studio that has the bars on the

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windows. That's the ones we're going to,

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Stan. Eventually, that's going to

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happen.

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And my wife probably won't visit. She'll

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just send letters and stuff, which is

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good. Annuities are contracts. Okay,

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annuities should they're non-correlated

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assets. Non-correlated. Damn, that's not

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simple. Let me tell you something right

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now. I don't even know what

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non-correlated mean. What does that

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mean? That mean I'm not married anymore?

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Maybe. Um, it means it's not attached to

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the markets. Non-correlated means it has

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nothing to do with CNBC, Fox Business,

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and Jim Kramer. By the way, Jim Kramer,

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someone said, "You're like Jim Kramer."

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No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm right. Okay.

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Plus, he's vertically challenged. I'm

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66. I can see everything better. I can

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see markets better. I'm taller.

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Vertically challenged is the politically

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correct way to say short. He really

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short.

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I like Jim. I met him one time just I

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said, "How you doing?"

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[laughter]

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That's That's not nice. [laughter]

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How do they work? In simple terms, they

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work. Annuities work because the

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contractual guarantees are what they

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are. Lifetime income products. There's

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four SPDs as QX and income writers. How

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do they work? They pay as long as you're

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breathing or if you're on a respirator.

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Do they pay when I'm 152 years old? Yes,

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they do. How do MIGAS work, Stan?

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Multi-year guarantee annuities. The

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annuity version of a CD. How does your

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CD work? Well, my CD, you know, it

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protects the principal and it pays an

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annual interest rate. Bingo. That's what

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Moses said.

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In simple terms, they work and they work

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contractually. where you might make a

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mistake and where I'm trying to prevent

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that mistake is Johnny Apple Seed agent

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advisor trying to sell growth.

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They are a joke. My comment to them is

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because I worked at on Wall Street. Why

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wouldn't I just buy real growth? Why

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does the growth have surrender charges

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on them? Real market growth should never

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have surrender charges.

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I'm Wall Street's best friend. I'm

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expecting this year to get love letters

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from Jamie Diamond, the Goldman Sachs

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guy, all those guys. Why? Because I'm

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putting in income floors for people with

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annuities in addition to social security

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and then telling people to go invest the

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rest.

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I'm the best thing that ever happened to

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Wall Street. I'm the best thing that

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ever happened to advisors that that

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focus on managing money, non-anuities.

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That's how they work. Simply income

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floor, principal protection. Remember,

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principal protection, income for life,

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legacy long-term care. Most people focus

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on the P and the I, principal

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protection, and income for life. I

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encourage you to go to my site,

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theanuityman.com. You can email me,

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stantheanuityman.com.

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You can also schedule call, call you

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right on the dot. That's the only time

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we're going to ask for your phone number

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um and email because we need the email

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to send the confirmation. I need the

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phone and number to call you. Otherwise,

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everything on my site, you don't have to

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put that stuff in. You can get quotes.

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You can see live ma feeds. You can get

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speed of DQ like income writer quotes

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without putting in your name, your

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email. All you have to do is date of

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birth, gender, and state. We are the

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only ones that do that. Hopefully,

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hopefully there'll be others that try to

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copy Stan the annuity man, which is, you

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know, do you copy Jimmyi Hendricks? No,

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you don't.

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Do you copy Elvis? No, you don't. You

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have you have bad people that try to

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beat all this, you know, like no one's

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gonna be standing nuity, man. They know

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that.

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And by the way, I do one of these a day.

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Every single day. I told the queen,

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"We're doing a video a day." She's like,

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"Okay, whatever." Off she goes. And

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that's good. That's 38 years of

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marriage. That's that's called

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communicating 38 years of marriage. Hey,

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one last thing. Spinning clock above my

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head is a video I did on uh it's called

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Hey Annuity. haters, you already own an

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annuity. Hello. You're going to like it.

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It's a lot of fun. Hey, thanks for

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joining me. I'm Stan the Annuity Man.

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See you next time.

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