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This is Motley Full Answers. I'm Allison Southwick and I am joined as always by Robert Brokamp.

He's the personal finance. Well, not the. He's a personal finance expert here at the Molly

Fool. The personal finance expert.

At the Molly Fool. Hi. How are you, bro?

Just fine. How are you, Allison?

Good. I'm good because I didn't have to carry a lot of water for this episode. You did.

So let's just get into it. Sorry.

All right. Today we're going to look at the greatest investors of all time, the Chioot, if you

will. Actually, let's not, because that sounds more like a Pokemon than an honor. We'll also answer your

question about whether to cash out a pension, all that and more on this week's episode of

Molly Full Answers. It's time for Answers. And today's question comes from Ken. Ken writes,

my former employer still has a pension plan when I worked for them,

and apparently I am eligible. Recently, they offered me a lump sum payout, and I'm wondering which

is better. One, wait and get the monthly checks after I retire, or two, take the lump sum,

roll it over into my IRA and let it grow under my watchful eye. Given the math of compounding

and the numbers they provided for the payouts, option two seems to be a winner, but what do you think? Well, hello, Ken,

and that's an interesting question. So many people have these defined benefit pensions,

and at some point in their lives or their careers, they can choose to either leave the money

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