Posts Tagged ‘annuity training’
The Importance of Focus
There’s a common mindset in the insurance industry that agents need to work in as many different forms of business as they can (i.e. doing life insurance, medicare, final expense, annuities, long-term care, retirement planning, assets under management….the list goes on) to generate revenue from as many different places as possible. This mindset is not…
Read MoreImmediate Annuities Explained
There are two overarching types of annuities, immediate and deferred. Within deferred there are 3 types, variable, fixed, and fixed indexed. I’m not going to get caught up in all the different names that people have for them. I’m just going to use names that are primarily acknowledged by the Insurance Commissioner of each state.…
Read MoreIndexed Annuities Explained
Let’s jump into indexed annuities, and explain how they work, just as I would explain it to a client. The indexed annuity started around 1995 and was the answer between the fixed annuity and the variable annuity. People say, “I don’t like a fixed annuity because my interest rate is too low. I don’t like…
Read MoreFixed Annuities Explained
I often have agents asking how to simplify the explanation process of annuities. You have to understand that some clients don’t have prior knowledge about annuities or how they work. We have to be able to explain them in terms that they DO understand. So let’s dive into fixed annuities. A fixed annuity is very simple.…
Read More“Annuities are Complicated”
One of the most common questions I get is “how do you explain an annuity to a client that knows nothing about annuities”. There’s a book that I wrote called Stress and Rocking Chairs, The 2 Common Killers of People Over 60. The whole purpose of this book was to explain in clear English, not…
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