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Fixed index annuities can do what a stockbroker can’t. Want the returns of a strong U.S. economy? These days, you don’t even have to risk your savings. It’s time to go beyond the brokers.
The stock market has long been among the most powerful and popular means of generating wealth. This, of course, always has come with an assumed degree of risk. No small number of retirement portfolios have simply evaporated under the not-so-watchful eye of a stockbroker. Even the shrewdest market hawks can’t predict every shift, swing or crash that’ll inevitably turn the market upside-down.
Recent research shows that since 1989, the average middle-class American household has lost over half of its stock holdings.** During that same period, the market saw steady growth, even unprecedented highs, yet still the average American struggled to hold on to what they had. It’s harder and harder to be a little fish in a big pond, and those trends are only intensifying.
A fixed index annuity allows you to share in the returns of a strong economy without risking the retirement savings you depend on. With lifelong income set to grow alongside a healthy economy, the only way to go is up.
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