Annuities explained: are annuities a good investment for retirement?

#82: Are annuities a good investment for retirement? With $250 billion in sales each year, and $2.5 trillion in retirement annuity assets under contract, annuities comprise a huge slice of US retirement assets. Understanding annuities – whether annuities are right for you, and how annuities fit into your retirement strategy – can get complicated given all the annuity options out there and the extreme uncertainty in today’s markets. So this week, I sat down with Stan Haithcock, aka “Stan The A...