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How Laddering Income Annuities Allows Retirees to Generate Inflation-Adjusted Income for Life, While Still Preserving Their Lump Sum Principal Throughout Retirement
One of The Easiest Ways To Safely Boost Retirement Income.
With the cost of living surging in recent years, retirees have felt unprecedented pressure on their savings and income.
Meanwhile, outdated retirement income methods—like trying to live off the interest from CDs, bonds, dividends, or even the old 4% withdrawal rule—continue to fall short.
These traditional strategies simply can’t deliver the safe, predictable, inflation-adjusted income that retirees need today.
Retirees need a better way to generate more annual income while still growing and preserving their lump sum capital.
What Is Annuity Laddering?
Income annuities have been around for more than 2,000 years, first used by the Romans in 236 BC as a way to generate secure, pension-style lifetime income.
Modern income annuities function in a very similar way to Social Security, where they can receive as much as 8-10% contractually guaranteed growth rates during deferral and then be converted to lifetime income streams when needed.
When you “ladder” several of these types of annuities together—meaning you purchase and structure them all at once but allow each to grow and activate income at intentionally staggered intervals—you can create the same effect as if you had three or four streams of Social Security instead of just one.
Imagine activating a guaranteed lifetime income stream at age 65—already paying you more than traditional methods. But now, picture a second lifetime income stream activating at age 70. Then a third at 75. And maybe even another at 80.
Every few years, you’d receive a built-in, scheduled 15-20% raise in your lifetime income—completely independent of stock market ups and downs.
This kind of lifetime annuity income is backed and insured by “A”-rated insurance companies and is never exposed to market risk or volatility.
Now fast forward to your mid-eighties and imagine you still have multiple streams of lifetime income paying you every month like clockwork, while also preserving and recovering all your lump sum principal—safe and intact for yourself or your heirs. That is what can be done with a laddered annuity plan.
But Don't Annuities Have A Bad Reputation for High Fees, Locking Up Money Forever or Huge Commissions?
The short answer is yes—some do. That’s why annuity skepticism exists.
But the good news is that these catagories of annuity concerns and objections simply do not apply to the specific types of modern deferred income annuities (DIAs) used in laddered planning.
Modern income annuities have extremely low fees, healthy liquidity, full survivor benefits and zero commissions paid out of your pocket.
So while some of the historical annuity concerns are valid, now days it’s actually pretty easy to avoid those less attractive types of annuities when selecting the right annuity products to fund your laddered income plan.
Why Should I Seriously Look Into a Laddered Annuity Strategy For My Retirement?
Most conventional methods of generating retirement income require you to tie up significant amounts of capital only to produce mediocre levels of income in return.
A laddered lifetime income annuity portfolio can safely produce a larger annual retirement income than most conventional methods, provide built-in inflation increases along the way, and preserve lump principal all at the same time.
Additionally, a laddered deferred income annuity portfolio, coupled with a strategic Roth IRA conversion is quite possibly the most powerful retirement income strategy in existence.
Imagine, having secure retirement income that automatically gets bigger throughout your lifetime while potentially preserving and recovering your principal completely income tax-free and RMD-free at the other end - and leave it to your heirs completely income tax-free as well if so desired.
How Much More Income Could I Expect From A Laddered Annuity Plan vs. My Current Retirement Income Plan - And How Can I Find Out?
We've designed a safe educational opportunity for you to explore if you'd like to research this strategy further.
This experience enables you to learn more about how this strategy works, what's involved in setting it up and maintaining it, as well as all applicable costs and considerations, pros/cons, etc. -- as well as what kind of results you could expect personally from using a concept like this for your situation -- all within a sales-free/pressure-free educational environment.
So if you'd like to learn more about how annuity income laddering works and what it could do for you, here's exactly what to do next:
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STEP 1: Request our free educational tutorial PDF "The Power of Laddered Annuities" and discover how laddering annuities can help you generate increasing income for life - without depleting your principal.
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STEP 2: Book a free live strategy session demo with one of our licensed fiduciary income educators. They'll ask you a few basic questions and then create a customized side-by-side income comparison report -- so you can see exactly how much more income you could be receiving from a laddered annuity plan -- without any cost, obligation, or commitment on your part.
Just complete this short form and we will email you the PDF guide immediately...
National Annuity Educators was founded out of a passion to help empower consumers on their journey towards making confident and educated decisions about their retirement.
We believe many individuals and households are frustrated with most traditional retirement income planning options (and advisors) that only seem to fall disappointingly short of desired expectations - despite the hype that may have been made during the initial presentation.
We are a national network of fiduciary advisors who are passionate about honoring our clients’ goals and priorities as if they were our own.
Our goal is to be constantly improving the client experience through innovation, efficiency, and client education.
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Paul D. Spurlock, CRPC
Founder & President
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