Welcome to the early retirement show. If you are a long time listener, thank you. And if you are new to the show,

as a reminder, this show is dedicated to helping you retire early, otherwise known as the show dedicated to helping you understand what you have to do to be in a position where you are financially free, where work is now optional.

So whether you are a few years out from retirement and you just want to know everything to prepare

for that big date or you're new in your journey and you want to get a head start on maximizing

what you've worked so hard for throughout your life, this is the show for you.

So we discuss everything from investments to

taxes to insurance and everything that comes in between. So without further ado, let's go ahead

and hop into today's episode. Welcome back to the early retirement show. Today's episode is a fun one

about annuities and whether or not you should purchase them for guaranteed

income.

One of the things that sounds really, really nice throughout retirement.

But what we want to know is what are the tradeoffs of buying an annuity as opposed to just

investing and seeing if we can do better ourselves?

What are the tradeoffs?

Does it make sense to buy an annuity?

Is that a good product, really, for anyone?

And that's what we're going to be exploring in today's episode.

As a reminder, all of this and more is on my YouTube channel where you can see video format of this.

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So let's hop into today's episode, which is all about annuities and the questions we're going

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