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with today's show.

Hello and welcome to the Retirement and IRA show EDU edition as we're approaching the end of June, National Annuity Awareness Month. So we've got another show lined up

for you here that we're going to tackle RILA's

registered index linked annuities R-I-L-A is what that stands for.

One of the latest and greatest, I guess you'll say, of the annuity world. Certainly has been growing in popularity recently.

But we'll talk about what they are, what they aren't,

and as always kind of give you the good, the bad, and the ugly on any of these.

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