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The Expensive Truth About Annuities

The Expensive Truth About Annuities

We’re talking about something that fires up a lot of folks in the financial world: the truth about annuities. We break down the four different types of annuities and the expensive fees associated with these investment vehicles. We’re exposing the good, the...
How to Get Out of Traps Laid by Bad Investments

How to Get Out of Traps Laid by Bad Investments

Do you feel stuck with an individual stock you bought? Or maybe you bought into a front-loaded mutual fund a while ago, and now you’re not sure what to do with it. Perhaps you’ve got one of those variable annuities and it’s dragging your financial life down. On the...

The Price of Security – Immediate Annuities

Money-Guy 05-05-2008 With recent stock market ups and downs, immediate annuities are attracting attention from people looking to shelter themselves from volatility. But do they make financial sense? If so, for whom and when? (An immediate annuity, you might recall, is...

Dateline and Equity-Indexed Annuities

Chris Hansen from Dateline NBC devoted an entire hour on April 13, 2008 to the topic of equity-indexed annuities and the unscrupulous tactics sometimes used to sell them to seniors. (Recognize Hansen’s name? He’s best known for his work on the Dateline NBC...