Your Retirement Annuity Questions and Comments Answered!

[@hermit400]

Love this series, please continue.

[@miket9670]

Great series, thank you! Income Rider and MYGA tools are integral to filling out our income floor. The balance of our investable assets will be able to fluctuate with the market without affecting our spending levels. To us, Sleep-at-night outweighs ROI.

[@urbanart7325]

My exact sentiment

[@urbanart7325]

You can chose the SPIA with no death benefit but you can leave other investments as inheritance for your kids. That SPIA ( pension like) will go together with the social security to pay the bills with investible assets for the kids.

[@pensacola321]

My SPIA is with highly rated USAA. Lifetime income benefits for both me and wife. A 15 guarantee to our estate if we both die before that. ( Tiny difference in benefit from life only.) I converted part of an IRA for this annuity earlier this year (I'm 72) and we like it. Excellent sleep aid....... You should talk about this option in your series. You might not always get the ultimate payout, but your older clients could be interested....

[@OakHarvestFinancialGroup]

Sounds like your happy Vp and that's good! USAA is a highly rated company, but they have what's called Captive Agents. This means that their products aren't available on the open market. And because of this, their rates and offerings are not competitive against annuities and insurance carriers that have to compete with one another. My best guess is probably 10-20% more income each year would be available from several different highly rated companies. Your highest paying SPIA may be as much as 30% more annual income. I'll do a video on this because people need to understand the difference between Captive Agencies and Independent Agencies.

[@patbattipaglia2636]

Very educational thank you!

[@OakHarvestFinancialGroup]

Glad it was helpful! Appreciate you commenting!

[@charity7273]

Great convo

[@EconMBAStudent]

Love your videos very informative. I need to watch all of your annuity videos, my question is are annuities index linked (time value of money)

[@OakHarvestFinancialGroup]

We will be releasing one of these videos every week for several weeks until we've covered tons of info about annuities. If you watch them all you'll be more educated than most advisors! Not all annuities are index linked, there are numerous types of annuities these days. Some of them can be really powerful, some of them I would avoid like the plague.

[@vinceveltri7732]

Thank you for cutting through the typical BS and addressing annuity concerns directly.

[@OakHarvestFinancialGroup]

You're welcome. This entire series will be like this. People need to understand how the industry works and how annuities function. It doesn't mean they are bad financial tools, it just means everyone should learn for themselves and be able to make an informed decision, without any fluff, based on their needs and circumstances. Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@salusa_secundus]

“Insurance agents” who are not typically fully licensed (series 7) have given annuities a bad name. Many of these agents are part of a multi-level marketing schemes as well.

[@OakHarvestFinancialGroup]

Not all of them are bad, but there are definitely some bad ones out there (those that are only insurance-licensed). Important to know that Series 7 licensed brokers make commissions on most everything as well and are a big part of the industry problem over the past 50 years. Again, not all of them are bad but definitely they are out there. The Series 65 license is what creates the legal fiduciary relationship. In my experience, it's a person's character that makes them either do the right thing or not. They type of license they have doesn't change their character.

[@Beautifuluproductions]

Is there a GRA annuity and is it a Group Retirement Annuity? Not sure this abbreviation, what does it do

[@OakHarvestFinancialGroup]

Hey there @Beautifuluproductions! If you'd like, you can contact our office and we can share about the different kinds of annuities available and answer any questions you may have - click2retire.com/schedule

[@zacharyblount5282]

I’m 62 and retired with $57,000 left on my mortgage and $600,000 saved in my portfolio for retirement - should I pay off my home now?

[@salusa_secundus]

Not a good idea. Most of your mortgage payments right now are paying off the principal and it’s probably close to 0-%. If you’re risk tolerance allows it, time horizon, liquidity, it may be wiser to invest that $57K. If it will provide psychological benefit then yes, but try to payoff higher interest liabilities first.

[@larryrogers6224]

Would you recommend any insurance companies for an annuity

[@OakHarvestFinancialGroup]

There are lots of good companies. It's more about finding the correct product than the right company. That is done by having a plan and long term strategy driving the selection. Let us know if we can help!

[@urbanart7325]

I like you but I think your AUM is a bit too high for me. I am currently paying 0.6 percent and my current advisor is not a fan of annuities.

[@OakHarvestFinancialGroup]

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