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    Variable Annuity Pros & Cons: Financial Freedom for Smart People
    Variable Annuity Pros & Cons: Financial Freedom for Smart People
    Variable Annuity Pros & Cons: Financial Freedom for Smart People
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    Variable Annuity Pros & Cons: Financial Freedom for Smart People

    By Todd Tresidder

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    This is the information your variable annuity salesman doesn't want you to know!

    Discover how to simplify these complex investments to just the essential principles so you can make an independent, intelligent investment decision.

    In one evening you'll understand:

    • The critical differences between variable annuities and fixed annuities.
    • The 10 essential features of variable annuities and how they're commonly misrepresented (reveals their real worth).
    • How to analyze a variable annuity contract.
    • 3 key characteristics of variable annuities that could make or break your investment decision.
    • A 17-question, step-by-step guide that simplifies your investment decision.
    • The 5 situations where variable annuities make sense--and why all other investors should avoid them.
    • 14 questions that could indicate you're a victim of variable annuity sales fraud (and what you should do about it).
    • 3 things you can do if you already bought a variable annuity--but wish you had not.

    Don't trust the salesman! Get an unbiased, insider view in this handy consumer's guide that simplifies these incredibly complex investments into words you can understand so that you can make a smart investment decision.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTodd R. Tresidder
    Release dateJul 19, 2012
    ISBN9781939273000
    Variable Annuity Pros & Cons: Financial Freedom for Smart People

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      Variable Annuity Pros & Cons - Todd Tresidder

      Foreword

      Financial information is just like Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Too much. Too complicated. Too confusing. It’s seldom just right.

      • Too Short: The Internet is filled with sound-bite-length half-truths forcing you to waste hours searching repetitive and contradictory articles to uncover the whole truth.

      • Too Long: The bookstores are filled with multi-hundred-page tomes padded with fluff chapters like A Brief History of the Financial Markets and What Is a Stock? when all you need is 10 pages of concrete ideas you can put to use.

      • Too Simple: The financial content mills produce reams of articles for magazines and web sites written by professional writers who aren’t financial experts and lack practical experience.

      • Too Complicated: Academic journals have great research, but it’s written in an inaccessible style using financial geek-speak so that only a trained expert can decipher the encrypted meaning.

      Frankly, I’m tired of financial fairy tales so that is why I wrote the 60 Minute Financial Solutions series of ebooks—so that you could have the just right next step.

      Each ebook provides a concise, definitive answer to an essential financial question that you’ll inevitably confront on your path to financial security. Each ebook is a one-stop solution to a single financial issue so you learn exactly what you need to know, when you need to know it.

      What you get with each ebook is the distillation of everything that is valid and the elimination of everything that is not. The goal is to simplify without oversimplifying so you can make an independent, intelligent, and appropriate financial decision—in about 60 minutes.

      Best of all, these books are written by a genuine financial expert. I was trained as an economist and I’ve published in the academic world. I also refined my practical knowledge as a hedge fund investment manager for more than a decade with 100% winning years (except one small loss of less than 3%). I now work as an educator coaching people just like you to achieve their financial

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