“Eight Percent Annual Annuity Returns”… or even better! Before You Lock In Rates… Discover Up To 15% Income For Life or how about up-to 33% More Income for Life! Where did we find these amazing offers? Believe it or not, right in the Ad section at the top and bottom of the page when we searched Google for the word “annuity”. Surely these offers must really exist or they wouldn’t put them on Google. In fact, I know these offers do exist — unfortunately, just not the expected results for the people this advertising targets. These offers are the classic bait and switch or maybe I would call them bait and twist. How so? Let me translate it from marketing speak into English – “eight percent annual return” translates into a captive income formula (not an actual return on your money!) that never allows you to walk away with that so called eight percent return. Want the 15%? You’ll have to wait to start your income at about age 90 to get that one, and the 33% more income for life pitch [continued below video…]
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]
The running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain each July provides for amazing images as young men run alongside the massive bulls trying to demonstrate their bravado. Unfortunately, the images we typically remember of the “running of the bulls” are those dozen or so young men each year that had unfortunate timing and were trampled or gored by the massive bulls. Running with the bulls is surely an exhilarating experience and for the hundreds that escape unscathed, it provides a lifetime of memories and stories to share. What can this teach us about investing and annuities? …[continued below video]