The stock market is well known for its roller coaster effect of up and down account values. For many retirees, this can mean more than a few restless nights and frequent trips to the store for antacids. Just the thought of losing thirty, twenty or even ten percent of your retirement savings can be unsettling at best. Did you know that owning fixed or fixed index annuities can actually enhance your stock market investing? How so? The difference between stocks and annuities comes down to…[continued below video]

[continued]… “stocks for wants and annuities for needs”. The **guarantees that annuities provide for income and safer growth without risk of loss can go a long way toward protecting retirees needs. We need **guarantees to assure our access to basic necessities like food, shelter, quality health care and those things we truly cannot live without. We want money to take nice vacations, buy new cars and clothes — but if we had a bad run in the market, we could survive without those additional items or purchases.

Allocations into annuities can enhance your market performance by not forcing you to sell your “stock losers” when they are down, just so you can eat or keep your home. The concept of dollar cost averaging is fairly well known to many people. It is the idea that if you buy into the market at regular intervals – you will buy more when the market is down rather than up. Unfortunately, the concept is true in reverse for retirees. When retirees draw dollars out on regular intervals, they will withdraw more often when the values are down versus when they are up – we call this reverse dollar cost averaging which can be devastating to retirement security when one faces running out of money unexpectedly, late in life!

Annuities are often used effectively as a bond alternative or an alternative non-correlated asset allocation.



What goes up, must come down – unless perhaps it’s a fixed or fixed index annuity.

Videos are educational and conceptual only and not a solicitation. They are not to be considered investment, insurance, tax or legal advice. It is recommended that you work with licensed professionals for individualized advice before making any important financial decisions. Annuities are not FDIC insured and their guarantees are based on the claims paying ability of the issuing insurance company. State Guarantee Associations, while offering specific protections, are not the same as FDIC insurance.