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Retirement Planning: Are you Ready for Retirement? with Oak Harvest Retirement Success Plan

[Music] welcome to the retirement income show on Market Lane alongside the CEO and founder of Oak Harvest Financial Group that of course is Troy sharp Troy is a certified financial planner professional his team at Oak Harvest is incredible if you want to go to the website to learn more elk Harvest financialgroup.com Oak Harvest fg.com works as well a lot of great information on the website you can learn about Jared Kinney Ryan Kenny you can learn about Chris Paris Jessica canella the whole team there's just a phenomenal team Oak Harvest financialgroup.com and of course you can always go to the YouTube channel there's over 300 videos on there about any topic you can think about in the financial world the retirement world uh it's phenomenal and there's no cost you subscribe you'll know when all the new ones are out but there's no cost to any of that YouTube check out Troy sharp and Oak Harvest Troy's office located at 921 oral City Way I-10 and Bunker Hill they they are here for you if you need help they would love to help they just don't know if they can help until you reach out and you can do that just by giving them a call 800-822-64-34-800-822-64 34 today we're going to be talking the retirement success plan Troy is going to explain what this is and it's the process so it's about investment planning income planning tax planning health planning Estate Planning and they all go together Social Security and Medicare are in there as well you know you've done this for a long time you sat down with a lot of people so you kind of understand the common mistakes the common things that we Overlook as well this will be good going through the retirement success plan how are you going to inform us today of this retirement success plan well just like we have as humans we have basic needs right we have that hierarchy of we need shelter we need food we need security in retirement or once we get to retirement people have their the same concerns the same questions we all have the same let's call it fears do we have enough you know can you retire when can you retire how much can you spend when you do retire without the fear of running out of money we all want to pay less tax right the government can get their fair share but not a not a penny more and whatever that fair share is it's it's defined differently based on your plan so if you take the government's plan there they want to get as much from you as possible and the tax law is set up in a way that if you don't plan for taxes in retirement oftentimes we see people in situations where if they keep doing what they're doing 200 300 500 800 we sat down with a client prospective client recently and we're doing this analysis it was well over a million dollars in taxes if he kept doing the his way of things the way that his advisor had him doing it in regards to his income plan and tax plan and retirement well there was no tax plan obviously but his income plan was going to lead create this domino effect of his tax bill being over the course of time over the course of 25 years over a million dollars in estimated taxes that he was going to pay that he simply didn't have to pay if he went about a different approach the approach that I'm going to talk with you about today as far as step three of our retirement success process the tax planning aspect so just like we have basic needs as human beings we have basic concerns when it comes to retirement and we've created the structured process and that's the beautiful thing about the retirement success plan is it's a plan that is something that is actionable but it's also living and breathing it's something we will review with you throughout the year once you're a client but it's also a process and we believe in structure here we're really big on structure and process and that keeps us organized that keeps us on schedule and that keeps us ahead of the planning curve in order to do the things that we promise for everyone that's entrusted so much to us and I'm talking about your retirement you worked for 30 years 40 years 50 years in some cases and you save up whether it's five hundred thousand dollars or five million or 50 million you need a team of people that of course are knowledgeable but before education and certifications and designations and training and experience first and foremost you need somebody that cares okay if you start there with someone that's a fiduciary and not just you can be a fiduciary and still do the wrong thing I've seen it for years in the industry where fiduciary advisors still sell mutual funds that have high fees and commissions and they can make justifications for why they're selling them or why they think you're they're in your best interest I don't believe that they are personally um we would never put someone into a mutual fund that is charging a five percent front end commission and then you know has two or two and a half percent of hidden fees and we've seen that for for years coming from fiduciary firms fiduciary advisors so you start with from Ground Zero are you working with somebody who truly cares who's truly passionate about retirement so with that philosophy in mind that's the foundation of of what we look at when we hire people here at Oak Harvest Financial Group you could have all the designations in the world all the education all the experience but if if you're arrogant if you're not humble if you're not hungry if you're not continuing strive to be continuing to strive to be a better person we don't want you to work here because that foundational element do you care about the people that you're working with on a human level if that's not there then you know we don't want any part of that type of person I don't care how much you produce how what the metrics are when it comes to how we measure advisor performance so that's the foundation now once you have someone that cares you want a structured process in place to deal with those big questions that you have the big concerns that you have so do you have enough yet it's not just a yes or no question it's a function of how much do you spend what is your health situation if you're healthy yes of course you're going to live longer most likely but are you planning for the increased medical costs in increased probability of needing long-term care or Assisted Living these are aspects that healthier people do have to absolutely be concerned about those that are less healthy it's less likely you're going to have a two or three year four or five year stay in a long-term care facility or need nurses in the home so when we talk about do you have enough and can you retire these are all the answers to those questions are function of how much do you spend what is your longevity what is your health situation your of course your family history um but not only that it's what are we doing with the other aspects of this process meaning the income planning side the tax planning side what about the health care side you know are you retiring before Medicare do we need to look at some type of Health Care planning that qualifies you to receive a subsidy so you're not paying two thousand dollars a month for both spouses for health insurance that maybe we get it down to 400 a month or 600 a month or maybe no out-of-pocket costs whatsoever for health insurance premiums you can do that with proper planning but you need the right type of asset structure meaning if you have all your money in retirement accounts this is where tax planning comes in when you take money out that goes on to your 1040 your tax return and then you probably aren't going to qualify for as big a subsidy as if you had money saved and non-ira accounts so this the structuring of income planning tax planning Health Care planning and then of course the estate side of things this is all what the oak Harvest retirement success process the retirement success plan is and that's what you receive when you become a client it is a very clear and structured process that we go through but then it's also a plan that is living and breathing and we're making adjustments as time goes on tax law changes economic conditions change goals change your spending levels will change it retirement is and we've only learned this you know from years and years of experience the best delayed plans we can't just set him and forget them you know plans need constant monitoring just like a plant or a garden or you know a human being so the retirement success process we're going to get into today to to today we're going to focus on the first three steps the first step is risk management and investment planning next step is income planning so income planning is social security when do we take that it's not just based on the math which it does play a role but when we start to look at are you a conservative investor okay versus an aggressive investor investor that plays into the Social Security election decision of course your Health and Longevity plays in market conditions okay are we in a recession when you're thinking about taking social security are your accounts down 20 30 percent or did we have a really really good year last year and it looks like we're gonna have a good year this year all of these factors kind of tie in to that income planning component as well as many other we're going to talk about and then the big one we're gonna we're gonna get into is tax planning that's step three of the retirement success process and when you start to understand that retirement is a set of dominoes when you're young you work you put the kids through school you deal with traffic you deal with bosses you deal with if you run your own business all the headaches that come with that you deal with so many different things money is really really simple it's life that's complicated in the accumulation phase once we get to retirement now life gets a little bit more simple it's the money it's the decisions you have to make and the realization that every single decision you make how you invest the portfolio impacts not not only how much income you can take today but how much income you can take down the road the sequence of returns risk based on how you've invested sequence of returns is if the market goes down and you're also taking money out you exacerbate that downturn in the market because there's no paychecks coming in you're you're pulling money out and losing in the market so these decisions every single one that you make it's a domino effect it impacts everything else it impacts the tax plan it impacts the income strategy can impact the health care it can impact absolutely the estate plan so we walk you through this process so we have a plan in place we call it the retirement success plan and the goal is for you to have security first and foremost but what I find most often is the outcome is that people feel more comfortable they feel more secure and they're able to enjoy retirement a bit more because they've they have a plan in place that addresses all these certain needs but also through the continual monitoring and adjusting and conversations one thing I love about our process is when someone comes to us and we have that first meeting where it's just get to know you you know no pressure no obligation no cost we get the information we do an analysis between that first and that second visit and then when we come back on that second visit you actually get to see what it's like to be a client at Oak Harvest Financial Group because that second visit with us we're starting to go through the foundation of a financial plan we're starting to discuss the decisions that you have to make not only this year but in the future so that's almost exactly what it's like to have an annual review with us or a semi-annual review with us so I love that about our process is that you get to see before you ever decide to become a client what it's like to actually be a client when we have up on the big television screen all of the information the choices you have to make the impact of making different decisions how it impacts your taxes how it impacts your income how it impacts your account balances when we do a sensitivity analysis and and show you okay this outcome in the market and this outcome for income decisions versus this one here are the possible outcomes for those choices and that those combination of choices so you get to see what it's like to actually be a client just through our normal process of going through that first second and third visit with us many Engineers it takes a little bit longer than that sometimes it's four or five visits but our goal is to Simply provide value we want to make deposits in your life we want to provide value and you know people see that value and they say you know what I think you guys could be a great part of my financial team my retirement team and yes I want to work with you Troy so if that's you if you don't have a retirement success plan if you don't have a tax plan income plan if you don't understand the guard rails what I'm going to get into in this next segment as far as risk management in retirement give us a call we want you to leave a message there's no one here working on the weekends if you're watching this on YouTube if you're listening to this later and it's during the week sure give us a call someone will pick up but we want to have a conversation just to see what's important to you who you are if you're a good fit for what we do and of course you can ask questions to see if we're a good fit for you and then we'll schedule that first visit there's no cost no obligation we can do it through Zoom we can do it in person at the office right here at I-10 and Bunker Hill in Memorial City and that first visit we'll have a cup of coffee a glass of water and just get to know each other and if we are a good fit at that point we'll get that second scheduled we'll do the analysis that I talked about and we'll walk you through that retirement success process so you can have those big questions answered do you have enough can you retire and how do you pay less tax 1-800-822-6434 1-800-822-6434 Oak Harvest Financial Group check out the YouTube channel check out the website Oak Harvest Financial Group so when you think about this this is what I think you should really like about it it's you're working with the team at Oak Harvest for your retirement right to coming up with that retirement success plan you're the CEO it's your retirement look at Troy and the team at Oak Harvest as your Chief Financial Officer here to help guide you you're going to make the decisions they're going to give you the choices right and it's up to you because it is your retirement it's your hopes and dreams your bucket list and all of that it's really important though that they understand your feelings your thoughts your hopes your dreams it is about you so you've got to talk to them and they're here to listen and they're here to help again that number is 800-822-6434 risk management how important is it what actually is it Troy we'll explain when we come back this is the retirement income show with Troy sharp out of Oak Harvest Financial Group back right after this investment advisory services offered through Oak Harvest Financial Group LLC Oak Harbor's Financial Group is an independent Financial Services firm that helps people create retirement strategies using a variety of insurance and investment products investing involves risk including the loss of principal any references to protection benefits or lifetime income generally refer to fixed Insurance products never Securities or investment products insurance and annuity product guarantees are backed by the financial strength and claims paying ability of the issuing insurance company Oak Harbor's Financial Group LLC is not permitted to offer a No statement made during this show shall constitute tax or legal advice you should speak to a qualified professional before 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Retirement Tips | 2 Ways to Earn Interest and Delay Taxes

So, what are the 2 ways to earn
interest and delay taxes? Great question. I'm glad you're here. My
name is Stan The Annuity Man, I'm America's Annuity Agent, licensed in all
50 states. This is part of my retirement tips series on the Stan The Annuity Man
YouTube channel. Which I hope you can hit subscribe or
hit the bell. I think the bell alerts you to when these come out.

By the
way, spoiler alert: They come out every single day, Monday
through Friday. So, we're just getting started. I want to educate the public on
all things annuity. But let's talk about this. Let's get into
the details, let's do facts. Not fiction, not sales pitches. But only
after this music. So, what are the 2 ways to earn
interest and delay taxes? You know, I always say an annuity for what it will
do, not what it might do. Not the unicorns
chasing the butterflies, the hypothetical theoretical, back-tested, hopeful-agent scenario that you see and hear. And you go, "Wow,
that sounds too good to be true." It is too good to be true.
You know, annuities are contracts. You have to understand that. So, what are the
2 ways to earn interest and delay taxes in the annuity world that you need
to be aware of? I've written books on multi-year guarantee annuity and fixed
index annuity. Go to theannuityman.com. Sign up there
and I'll ship the books for free and you'll just get them in the mail. No
obligation, no cost.

So, let's talk about multi-year guarantee
annuities. Multi-year guarantee annuity is a fixed rate annuity.
It's the annuity industry version of a CD.
So, for instance you can get currently at the time of this taping, you can get a
3-year multi-year guarantee annuity. In other
words, you're locking in that interest for 3 years.
In this case, most states have an interest rate around 3%.
So, for those 3 years, you're going to get 3 percent and it's going to
compound tax-deferred. Eventually when you pull
money out of an annuity, any type of an annuity,
you're going to pay taxes at ordinary income rate levels. And you just have to
know that. I mean anyone that says to you that they can get you an annuity
that's tax-free income that they can't. That's
the IRS doesn't allow it. But what the IRS does allow (and this is pretty cool)
is they allow you to defer taxes. And a lot of people out there are
in very, very high tax brackets. They don't want to lose a penny.

But they
also want to earn interest. Multi-year guarantee annuity is a very
simplistic way, a fixed rate annuity way, you know exactly
what it's going to do, what it will do. Not what it might do. There's no might do. There's
will do. Will do with multi-year guarantee annuity is that
interest that you're going to get paid and you can actually peel.
Most of them allow you to peel it off and and put it into a bank account if
you want to.

But in this case, you're looking for a
way to delay taxes and put it off and tax defer
and get interest. Multi-year guarantee annuity is a great
way to go about it. And you can ladder them. You can buy like
a 3-year, 4-year, 5-year or 7-year. They can go as far out as 10
years or more. But in my opinion, you always try to keep the maturity
short with multi-year guarantee annuities with the hope
that interest rates go up. Okay, the other way to earn interest and delay taxes
is with an indexed annuity, fixed indexed annuity. Back in the day,
they were called equity indexed annuities. But now they're called fixed
index annuities. They were designed in 1995 to compete
with CD returns which is exactly what they do.

They are not securities. They are
life insurance products that are issued at the state
level. So, people that want to push them as
market return products, they're really not. They're cd products. Now, some years
can be a little bit better than others. But the blended return since 1995
has been in that cd level. The good news about index annuities is
that when the interest is locked in, in other words, whatever gain on that
call option that you've done… And by the way,
I've done a series on indexed annuities you might want to check out that
explains caps and spreads and participation rates
and all that stuff that's part of the series I did on indexed annuities.

So,
whatever that locks in at, I mean, it never goes below that. So, you just stair
step up hopefully that that interest locks in. And if the
markets go in the toilet, you don't lose a penny. Now, the good news
when used like multi-year guarantee annuities and indexed annuities,
when using a non-IRA account, then that growth
grows tax-deferred and compounds. Which is a good thing.
Because there's a lot of you out there that don't want any more taxes. You're
at a high tax bracket where you just want to protect the principal
and just have interest hit and defer the taxes down the road. In other
words hockey analogy, is kick the puck down the ice a
little bit. Eventually when you pull it out, you will have to pay taxes on it but
with these 2 products –indexed annuities and multi-year
guarantee annuities. You can earn interest
and delay taxes. Alright, let's stay on the subject on indexed annuities a
little bit because in addition, if you just bought an
indexed annuity and said, "Okay, Stan.

I don't need income or i don't need any
i don't need any whistles or barrels. I just want
that index call option return, whatever that is to be credited to the account. I
don't want to pay taxes on it. I want to delay it but I want that interest credit."
Fine. There's no annual fees. It's very… You know, we'll shop all carriers for the
best cap spreads, participation rates, strategies involved. We need to talk
about that go to theannuityman.com and sign up there. Or if you
want to discuss it, you can just hit the comments down here
on my YouTube channel.

I do check that and we will answer you as well.
But I wanted to talk to you about indexed annuities with
income writers. Now, I've written a book on income riders that I'll send with the
other ones. The fixed indexed annuity one and the
multi-year guarantee annuity book as well.
But at the time of application, you can attach what's called an income rider to
a fixed annuity.

What an income rider is is an attached benefit that grows
separately. So, if you draw a line down the middle of a blank sheet of paper,
index option stuff here income rider calculation is here. And you can use this
side to calculate a future income payment. Now, the good news is
typically that has an interest rate attachment that it grows
by as well and it's not true interest because you
can only use this to calculate your first income payment.
So, it's kind of a phantom account monopoly money. But it does have a growth
percentage with most of them that it grows by.

But it grows tax
deferred. So, again, if you're looking for interest to
grow and to delay taxes, you can have a fixed indexed annuity
standalone without the income rider. Or you can have a fixed index annuity
with an income rider. Either way, both sides of that calculation… Remember
i did that the accumulation value and then the income rider.
Both sides of that calculation and there are separate calculations
are going to grow tax-deferred. Which is a good thing.
So, once again, you need to talk with me and go to theannuityman.com. Set of time
and let's talk about what you're trying to achieve.
It really comes down to 2 questions you need to ask and answer. Number 1,
what do you want the money to contractually do and number 2
when do you want those contractual guarantees to start?
In this case, "Hey, Stan. I want interest. I want to delay taxes."
Then we need to go shop MYGAs, we need to go shop index annuities for the best
contractual guarantees for your specific situation.

Hey, I've done a
series of these retirement tips video. I encourage you to go check them all out.
You can go to the playlist right below me and you can see the whole series and
look at them one by one to see which one applies to
you. Remember this with multi-year guarantee annuities and fixed
indexed annuities. You can use our proprietary calculators at theannuityman.com to run the quotes yourself. We have a
live feed of the best fixed rates for your specific state. You just filter by
your state of residence and the duration that you're looking at.
24/7, 365 you can shop that at your leisure.

Let me know if you're interested
we can coordinate the paperwork. And with index annuities, a little bit
more of a complex product. But with both products, we need to talk one-on-one me
and you. You and The Annuity Man, America's Annuity Agent.
The number 1 agent in the country. I will shoot it straight if you haven't
caught that from me by now. It's going to be a
brutally factual conversation. I'm going to put your interest first
from a fiduciary standpoint. That's the way it should be with all
conversations and i will tell you if annuity does not fit.
I promise to do that. Hit the subscribe button. I'll see you
on the next Stan The Annuity Man video. you.

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Retirement Tips | 2 Ways to Earn Interest and Delay Taxes

So, what are the 2 ways to earn
interest and delay taxes? Great question. I'm glad you're here. My
name is Stan The Annuity Man, I'm America's Annuity Agent, licensed in all
50 states. This is part of my retirement tips series on the Stan The Annuity Man
YouTube channel. Which I hope you can hit subscribe or
hit the bell. I think the bell alerts you to when these come out.

By the
way, spoiler alert: They come out every single day, Monday
through Friday. So, we're just getting started. I want to educate the public on
all things annuity. But let's talk about this. Let's get into
the details, let's do facts. Not fiction, not sales pitches. But only
after this music. So, what are the 2 ways to earn
interest and delay taxes? You know, I always say an annuity for what it will
do, not what it might do. Not the unicorns
chasing the butterflies, the hypothetical theoretical, back-tested, hopeful-agent scenario that you see and hear. And you go, "Wow,
that sounds too good to be true." It is too good to be true.
You know, annuities are contracts. You have to understand that. So, what are the
2 ways to earn interest and delay taxes in the annuity world that you need
to be aware of? I've written books on multi-year guarantee annuity and fixed
index annuity. Go to theannuityman.com. Sign up there
and I'll ship the books for free and you'll just get them in the mail.

No
obligation, no cost. So, let's talk about multi-year guarantee
annuities. Multi-year guarantee annuity is a fixed rate annuity.
It's the annuity industry version of a CD.
So, for instance you can get currently at the time of this taping, you can get a
3-year multi-year guarantee annuity. In other
words, you're locking in that interest for 3 years.
In this case, most states have an interest rate around 3%.
So, for those 3 years, you're going to get 3 percent and it's going to
compound tax-deferred. Eventually when you pull
money out of an annuity, any type of an annuity,
you're going to pay taxes at ordinary income rate levels.

And you just have to
know that. I mean anyone that says to you that they can get you an annuity
that's tax-free income that they can't. That's
the IRS doesn't allow it. But what the IRS does allow (and this is pretty cool)
is they allow you to defer taxes. And a lot of people out there are
in very, very high tax brackets. They don't want to lose a penny. But they
also want to earn interest. Multi-year guarantee annuity is a very
simplistic way, a fixed rate annuity way, you know exactly
what it's going to do, what it will do.

Not what it might do. There's no might do. There's
will do. Will do with multi-year guarantee annuity is that
interest that you're going to get paid and you can actually peel.
Most of them allow you to peel it off and and put it into a bank account if
you want to. But in this case, you're looking for a
way to delay taxes and put it off and tax defer
and get interest. Multi-year guarantee annuity is a great
way to go about it. And you can ladder them. You can buy like
a 3-year, 4-year, 5-year or 7-year. They can go as far out as 10
years or more. But in my opinion, you always try to keep the maturity
short with multi-year guarantee annuities with the hope
that interest rates go up. Okay, the other way to earn interest and delay taxes
is with an indexed annuity, fixed indexed annuity.

Back in the day,
they were called equity indexed annuities. But now they're called fixed
index annuities. They were designed in 1995 to compete
with CD returns which is exactly what they do. They are not securities. They are
life insurance products that are issued at the state
level. So, people that want to push them as
market return products, they're really not. They're cd products. Now, some years
can be a little bit better than others.

But the blended return since 1995
has been in that cd level. The good news about index annuities is
that when the interest is locked in, in other words, whatever gain on that
call option that you've done… And by the way,
I've done a series on indexed annuities you might want to check out that
explains caps and spreads and participation rates
and all that stuff that's part of the series I did on indexed annuities. So,
whatever that locks in at, I mean, it never goes below that. So, you just stair
step up hopefully that that interest locks in. And if the
markets go in the toilet, you don't lose a penny. Now, the good news
when used like multi-year guarantee annuities and indexed annuities,
when using a non-IRA account, then that growth
grows tax-deferred and compounds. Which is a good thing.
Because there's a lot of you out there that don't want any more taxes.

You're
at a high tax bracket where you just want to protect the principal
and just have interest hit and defer the taxes down the road. In other
words hockey analogy, is kick the puck down the ice a
little bit. Eventually when you pull it out, you will have to pay taxes on it but
with these 2 products –indexed annuities and multi-year
guarantee annuities. You can earn interest
and delay taxes. Alright, let's stay on the subject on indexed annuities a
little bit because in addition, if you just bought an
indexed annuity and said, "Okay, Stan. I don't need income or i don't need any
i don't need any whistles or barrels. I just want
that index call option return, whatever that is to be credited to the account. I
don't want to pay taxes on it. I want to delay it but I want that interest credit."
Fine. There's no annual fees. It's very… You know, we'll shop all carriers for the
best cap spreads, participation rates, strategies involved. We need to talk
about that go to theannuityman.com and sign up there.

Or if you
want to discuss it, you can just hit the comments down here
on my YouTube channel. I do check that and we will answer you as well.
But I wanted to talk to you about indexed annuities with
income writers. Now, I've written a book on income riders that I'll send with the
other ones. The fixed indexed annuity one and the
multi-year guarantee annuity book as well.
But at the time of application, you can attach what's called an income rider to
a fixed annuity. What an income rider is is an attached benefit that grows
separately. So, if you draw a line down the middle of a blank sheet of paper,
index option stuff here income rider calculation is here. And you can use this
side to calculate a future income payment. Now, the good news is
typically that has an interest rate attachment that it grows
by as well and it's not true interest because you
can only use this to calculate your first income payment.
So, it's kind of a phantom account monopoly money.

But it does have a growth
percentage with most of them that it grows by. But it grows tax
deferred. So, again, if you're looking for interest to
grow and to delay taxes, you can have a fixed indexed annuity
standalone without the income rider. Or you can have a fixed index annuity
with an income rider. Either way, both sides of that calculation… Remember
i did that the accumulation value and then the income rider.
Both sides of that calculation and there are separate calculations
are going to grow tax-deferred.

Which is a good thing.
So, once again, you need to talk with me and go to theannuityman.com. Set of time
and let's talk about what you're trying to achieve.
It really comes down to 2 questions you need to ask and answer. Number 1,
what do you want the money to contractually do and number 2
when do you want those contractual guarantees to start?
In this case, "Hey, Stan. I want interest. I want to delay taxes."
Then we need to go shop MYGAs, we need to go shop index annuities for the best
contractual guarantees for your specific situation.

Hey, I've done a
series of these retirement tips video. I encourage you to go check them all out.
You can go to the playlist right below me and you can see the whole series and
look at them one by one to see which one applies to
you. Remember this with multi-year guarantee annuities and fixed
indexed annuities. You can use our proprietary calculators at theannuityman.com to run the quotes yourself. We have a
live feed of the best fixed rates for your specific state. You just filter by
your state of residence and the duration that you're looking at.
24/7, 365 you can shop that at your leisure. Let me know if you're interested
we can coordinate the paperwork. And with index annuities, a little bit
more of a complex product.

But with both products, we need to talk one-on-one me
and you. You and The Annuity Man, America's Annuity Agent.
The number 1 agent in the country. I will shoot it straight if you haven't
caught that from me by now. It's going to be a
brutally factual conversation. I'm going to put your interest first
from a fiduciary standpoint. That's the way it should be with all
conversations and i will tell you if annuity does not fit.
I promise to do that. Hit the subscribe button. I'll see you
on the next Stan The Annuity Man video. you.

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Retirement Tips | 2 Ways to Earn Interest and Delay Taxes

So, what are the 2 ways to earn
interest and delay taxes? Great question. I'm glad you're here. My
name is Stan The Annuity Man, I'm America's Annuity Agent, licensed in all
50 states. This is part of my retirement tips series on the Stan The Annuity Man
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So, we're just getting started. I want to educate the public on
all things annuity. But let's talk about this. Let's get into
the details, let's do facts. Not fiction, not sales pitches. But only
after this music. So, what are the 2 ways to earn
interest and delay taxes? You know, I always say an annuity for what it will
do, not what it might do. Not the unicorns
chasing the butterflies, the hypothetical theoretical, back-tested, hopeful-agent scenario that you see and hear. And you go, "Wow,
that sounds too good to be true." It is too good to be true.
You know, annuities are contracts. You have to understand that. So, what are the
2 ways to earn interest and delay taxes in the annuity world that you need
to be aware of? I've written books on multi-year guarantee annuity and fixed
index annuity. Go to theannuityman.com. Sign up there
and I'll ship the books for free and you'll just get them in the mail. No
obligation, no cost. So, let's talk about multi-year guarantee
annuities.

Multi-year guarantee annuity is a fixed rate annuity.
It's the annuity industry version of a CD.
So, for instance you can get currently at the time of this taping, you can get a
3-year multi-year guarantee annuity. In other
words, you're locking in that interest for 3 years.
In this case, most states have an interest rate around 3%.
So, for those 3 years, you're going to get 3 percent and it's going to
compound tax-deferred. Eventually when you pull
money out of an annuity, any type of an annuity,
you're going to pay taxes at ordinary income rate levels. And you just have to
know that. I mean anyone that says to you that they can get you an annuity
that's tax-free income that they can't. That's
the IRS doesn't allow it. But what the IRS does allow (and this is pretty cool)
is they allow you to defer taxes. And a lot of people out there are
in very, very high tax brackets.

They don't want to lose a penny. But they
also want to earn interest. Multi-year guarantee annuity is a very
simplistic way, a fixed rate annuity way, you know exactly
what it's going to do, what it will do. Not what it might do. There's no might do. There's
will do. Will do with multi-year guarantee annuity is that
interest that you're going to get paid and you can actually peel.
Most of them allow you to peel it off and and put it into a bank account if
you want to. But in this case, you're looking for a
way to delay taxes and put it off and tax defer
and get interest.

Multi-year guarantee annuity is a great
way to go about it. And you can ladder them. You can buy like
a 3-year, 4-year, 5-year or 7-year. They can go as far out as 10
years or more. But in my opinion, you always try to keep the maturity
short with multi-year guarantee annuities with the hope
that interest rates go up. Okay, the other way to earn interest and delay taxes
is with an indexed annuity, fixed indexed annuity. Back in the day,
they were called equity indexed annuities.

But now they're called fixed
index annuities. They were designed in 1995 to compete
with CD returns which is exactly what they do. They are not securities. They are
life insurance products that are issued at the state
level. So, people that want to push them as
market return products, they're really not. They're cd products. Now, some years
can be a little bit better than others. But the blended return since 1995
has been in that cd level. The good news about index annuities is
that when the interest is locked in, in other words, whatever gain on that
call option that you've done… And by the way,
I've done a series on indexed annuities you might want to check out that
explains caps and spreads and participation rates
and all that stuff that's part of the series I did on indexed annuities.

So,
whatever that locks in at, I mean, it never goes below that. So, you just stair
step up hopefully that that interest locks in. And if the
markets go in the toilet, you don't lose a penny. Now, the good news
when used like multi-year guarantee annuities and indexed annuities,
when using a non-IRA account, then that growth
grows tax-deferred and compounds. Which is a good thing.
Because there's a lot of you out there that don't want any more taxes. You're
at a high tax bracket where you just want to protect the principal
and just have interest hit and defer the taxes down the road. In other
words hockey analogy, is kick the puck down the ice a
little bit. Eventually when you pull it out, you will have to pay taxes on it but
with these 2 products –indexed annuities and multi-year
guarantee annuities. You can earn interest
and delay taxes. Alright, let's stay on the subject on indexed annuities a
little bit because in addition, if you just bought an
indexed annuity and said, "Okay, Stan.

I don't need income or i don't need any
i don't need any whistles or barrels. I just want
that index call option return, whatever that is to be credited to the account. I
don't want to pay taxes on it. I want to delay it but I want that interest credit."
Fine. There's no annual fees. It's very… You know, we'll shop all carriers for the
best cap spreads, participation rates, strategies involved. We need to talk
about that go to theannuityman.com and sign up there. Or if you
want to discuss it, you can just hit the comments down here
on my YouTube channel. I do check that and we will answer you as well.
But I wanted to talk to you about indexed annuities with
income writers. Now, I've written a book on income riders that I'll send with the
other ones. The fixed indexed annuity one and the
multi-year guarantee annuity book as well.
But at the time of application, you can attach what's called an income rider to
a fixed annuity.

What an income rider is is an attached benefit that grows
separately. So, if you draw a line down the middle of a blank sheet of paper,
index option stuff here income rider calculation is here. And you can use this
side to calculate a future income payment. Now, the good news is
typically that has an interest rate attachment that it grows
by as well and it's not true interest because you
can only use this to calculate your first income payment.
So, it's kind of a phantom account monopoly money.

But it does have a growth
percentage with most of them that it grows by. But it grows tax
deferred. So, again, if you're looking for interest to
grow and to delay taxes, you can have a fixed indexed annuity
standalone without the income rider. Or you can have a fixed index annuity
with an income rider. Either way, both sides of that calculation…

Remember
i did that the accumulation value and then the income rider.
Both sides of that calculation and there are separate calculations
are going to grow tax-deferred. Which is a good thing.
So, once again, you need to talk with me and go to theannuityman.com. Set of time
and let's talk about what you're trying to achieve.
It really comes down to 2 questions you need to ask and answer. Number 1,
what do you want the money to contractually do and number 2
when do you want those contractual guarantees to start?
In this case, "Hey, Stan. I want interest. I want to delay taxes."
Then we need to go shop MYGAs, we need to go shop index annuities for the best
contractual guarantees for your specific situation. Hey, I've done a
series of these retirement tips video. I encourage you to go check them all out.
You can go to the playlist right below me and you can see the whole series and
look at them one by one to see which one applies to
you.

Remember this with multi-year guarantee annuities and fixed
indexed annuities. You can use our proprietary calculators at theannuityman.com to run the quotes yourself. We have a
live feed of the best fixed rates for your specific state. You just filter by
your state of residence and the duration that you're looking at.
24/7, 365 you can shop that at your leisure. Let me know if you're interested
we can coordinate the paperwork. And with index annuities, a little bit
more of a complex product. But with both products, we need to talk one-on-one me
and you. You and The Annuity Man, America's Annuity Agent.
The number 1 agent in the country. I will shoot it straight if you haven't
caught that from me by now. It's going to be a
brutally factual conversation. I'm going to put your interest first
from a fiduciary standpoint. That's the way it should be with all
conversations and i will tell you if annuity does not fit.
I promise to do that.

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