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What is an annuity?
How annuities help you retire
Annuities can help ensure a retirement strategy and income that lasts as long as you do, which is likely to be a very long time.
Tax-Deferred Growth
In general, during the accumulation phase of an annuity contract, your earnings grow tax-deferred. You pay taxes only when you start taking withdrawals from the annuity.
Predictable Income For Life
Income riders may be an effective vehicle for lasting financial security. When paired with the right annuity, an income rider can provide a steady income stream for the rest of your life.
Death Benefits For Heirs
The owner can designate a beneficiary to inherit the remaining annuity payments after death. After an annuitant dies, insurance companies distribute any remaining payments to beneficiaries.
Certain level of guarantee
You know what your rate of return will be for a certain period of time with the fixed annuities. For seniors looking for a predictable income stream, that may be a better alternative than putting money into equities.
What is an annuity?
What type of annuity is right for you?
Your personal goals, objectives and risk tolerance will determine the type of annuity that is right for you.
Fixed Index Annuities
A form of fixed annuity that earns interest due to changes in a market index, where the growth is bench-marked to a stock market index rather than an interest rate.
Full protection of principal
FIAs are protected from the volatility of the markets. Your money is never in the stock market. Your crediting strategy tracks the stock market, but you don’t own securities that can fall in value.
Can potentially provide better rates than CDs
From the 1999 to 2010 many fixed index annuities have actually outperformed the indexes they were correlated with. However, they really aren't designed to outperform the stock markets even though they do at times.
Efficient way to plan for future income needs
Once you annuitize it with lifetime payout option or turn on the income rider payouts, you cannot outlive that income stream.
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Top guaranteed monthly lifetime payouts from an income rider
Top guaranteed monthly lifetime payouts from an income rider
Top rates for S&P 500® annual point-to-point accounts with cap
Traditional Fixed Annuities
Fixed annuities are insurance contracts that pay a guaranteed rate of interest on the account owner’s contributions.
Predictable investment returns
The rates on fixed annuities are derived from the yield that the life insurance company generates from its investment portfolio, which is invested primarily in high-quality corporate and government bonds.
Guaranteed minimum rates
Once the initial guarantee period in the contract expires, the insurer can adjust the rate based on a stated formula or on the yield it is earning on its investment portfolio. As a measure of protection against declining interest rates, fixed annuity contracts typically include a minimum rate guarantee.
Multi-Year Guaranteed Annuities
A multi-year guaranteed annuity, or MYGA, offers a predetermined and contractually guaranteed interest rate for a fixed period of time.
Less risk
Since a MYGA offers a guaranteed interest rate for the entire contracted term, it’s considered a less risky investment than a variable or indexed annuity.
Flexibility and liquidity
The ability to take partial withdrawals yearly without a penalty affords flexibility. For example, if you need money to cover a large medical bill you could pull it out of your MYGA, which might be a preferable option to taking money from an IRA or getting a 401(k) loan.
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