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Answer Upon - Annuities - Don't Put Your IRA In A Variable Annuity - Part 2
Even with all of the various credit card offers arriving in our mailbox on a daily basis and advertised on TV and in magazines there are still many consumers that don’t really know the difference between all of the different variety of credit cards and their benefits, contractual requirements and interest rates.Take for instance an unsecured credit card; many people cannot correctly explain or articulate that an unsecured credit card is a card that doesn’t require you to keep a balance o
A fast growing segment of the card industry is membership and loyalty cards. These cards offer membership to your customers with added incentives. They also provide the card holder with special discounts, rewards and privileges that keeps them returning and also attracts new customers.Especially popular are the Key-Card combinations (combos). These are very affective in attaching your business brand and messaging to wallets, pocketbooks and key chains.Membership Cards and loyalty
One of the biggest draws advisors use to get you to take the plunge is the promise of the big bonus. They’ll pay you 6%, 8% or even 10% extra, right up front, just for putting your money into their variable annuity. Sounds great, doesn’t it? Who wouldn’t want such a big boost to their nest egg, especially with the stock market returns of late? But remember, there’s no such thing as a free lunch.
In return for this lovely bonus, you end up paying higher recurring annual fees, usually .15% higher (or more) than regular variable annuities. These fees are charged on all of the money in the annuity and are a continued drag on performance. Surrender penalties are higher and longer, too. The truth is that when you take into account the increased fees and the extra years you have to stay in the annuity, you really aren’t getting a ‘bonus’ at all!
These bonuses aren’t just used to entice you to invest your original IRA rollover when you retire. They’re also used to encourage you to transfer out of an annuity you already own that’s still in the penalty period. Advisors will tell you that the bonus on this ‘new-and-improved’ annuity will ‘pay you back’ for the penalty you’ll pay to get out of your old commission-based investment. The truth is, by getting you to switch to the ‘bonus’ annuity, they earn a fat fee up-front. You end up with pretty much the same thing you had but now are locked into it for much longer. What kind of a ‘deal’ is that? The promise of multiple investment choices is another feature of the variable annuity sales pitch that doesn’t live up to its claim. It’s true that many variable annuities offer a multitude of mutual fund choices in various sub-accounts, including funds invest
It wasn’t until I started trading currency full time that I fully appreciated just how much movements in these markets can impact on our everyday lives. The most obvious is, of course, whenever we travel abroad and have to buy foreign currency. Regular travellers will probably be more aware of the fluctuations in the currency markets and the surge in visitors to the United States around Christmas (as a result of a weak dollar) showed just how sophisticated we have become. The exchange rate w
In return for this lovely bonus, you end up paying higher recurring annual fees, usually .15% higher (or more) than regular variable annuities. These fees are charged on all of the money in the annuity and are a continued drag on performance. Surrender penalties are higher and longer, too. The truth is that when you take into account the increased fees and the extra years you have to stay in the annuity, you really aren’t getting a ‘bonus’ at all!
These bonuses aren’t just used to entice you to invest your original IRA rollover when you retire. They’re also used to encourage you to transfer out of an annuity you already own that’s still in the penalty period. Advisors will tell you that the bonus on this ‘new-and-improved’ annuity will ‘pay you back’ for the penalty you’ll pay to get out of your old commission-based investment. The truth is, by getting you to switch to the ‘bonus’ annuity, they earn a fat fee up-front. You end up with pretty much the same thing you had but now are locked into it for much longer. What kind of a ‘deal’ is that? The promise of multiple investment choices is another feature of the variable annuity sales pitch that doesn’t live up to its claim. It’s true that many variable annuities offer a multitude of mutual fund choices in various sub-accounts, including funds inves
Bankruptcy is in the news these days, as Congress has finally overhauled the Federal bankruptcy law after years of talking about it. The credit card companies, rightly or wrongly, have been pressuring members of Congress to tighten the bankruptcy statutes, saying that too many people were willfully spending money they couldn’t repay with the intention of avoiding paying the money back by filing for bankruptcy. That will soon change, and those with student loans may pay a heavy price.Mo
These bonuses aren’t just used to entice you to invest your original IRA rollover when you retire. They’re also used to encourage you to transfer out of an annuity you already own that’s still in the penalty period. Advisors will tell you that the bonus on this ‘new-and-improved’ annuity will ‘pay you back’ for the penalty you’ll pay to get out of your old commission-based investment. The truth is, by getting you to switch to the ‘bonus’ annuity, they earn a fat fee up-front. You end up with pretty much the same thing you had but now are locked into it for much longer. What kind of a ‘deal’ is that? The promise of multiple investment choices is another feature of the variable annuity sales pitch that doesn’t live up to its claim. It’s true that many variable annuities offer a multitude of mutual fund choices in various sub-accounts, including funds inves
Let's face it: At one point or another, you're going to fail in some way at your job. It could be something major such as missing a deadline, or something as minor as being five minutes late to work. No matter the magnitude, it's going to happen. Once you accept that, the real question becomes how you fail, i.e. how you handle it.There are two ways you can handle failure: You can either crash and burn or you can glide to safety. Obviously, the second path is the ro
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Not necessarily. It’s sort of like fishing. Who wants to fish in a pond full of minnows? Wouldn’t you rather drop your line where you have a greater chance of catching the big one? The mutual fund universe is full of thousands of choices. But only a small group of them are consistent top performers. Unfortunately, few variable annuities offer these big fish.
Some variable annuities feature a well-known fund already offered to the general public. But beware. This same fund will have much higher management fees within the annuity than it does outside of it, hampering its performance. I believe insurance companies make special deals with mutual fund companies to gain access to their management and then charge higher fees.
When you invest your money into a variable annuity, you’ll no longer have control over the choices at your disposal. The insurance company can change the investment choices whenever they want to and you have no recourse. Since your money is locked in for years, it will be very costly to change course a few years down the road should you be dissatisfied. What kind of choice is that?
So here’s the bottom line: variable annuities make big promises but don’t really deliver. Every feature they offer -- be it a big bonus, a multitude of investment choices, death benefit, or a guaranteed income stream -- comes at a very high price. High management fees and long, costly surrender penalties hinder your performance and rob you of your flexibility and control. The ones maki
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