As many approach our 60s and look forward to longer lives, it’s the perfect time to reassess retirement financial strategies. Consider these compelling reasons why annuities could positively impact your financial situation:

  1. Maximize Social Security: Purchase an immediate annuity to generate current retirement income while delaying claiming Social Security benefits. This strategy can help you qualify for and maximize the partially inflation-adjusted monthly benefit payment.
  2. Tax-Deferred Accumulation: Use a deferred annuity for tax-deferred accumulation. Annuity earnings remain untaxed until withdrawals occur, or you start taking regular distributions.
  3. Fund Essential Living Expenses: Purchase an income annuity or leverage the income options of a deferred annuity to cover essential living expenses in retirement. This approach can free up other assets for potential investment in higher-yield or inflation-offsetting asset classes.
  4. Create Protected Income: Transfer funds from a 401(k) or other qualified retirement savings plan to an annuity product. Utilize annuitization or optional income riders to convert accumulated funds into a protected, guaranteed income stream.
  5. Segment Your Retirement Funds: Implement a multi-bucket approach to managing retirement funds. Allocate resources to income annuities for immediate needs, secure future income with a deferred fixed or variable annuity and use the income options of another deferred annuity to meet mandatory minimum distribution requirements.
  6. Lifetime Income Stream: Exchange surplus cash value from an unnecessary permanent life insurance policy for an annuity product using a tax-free exchange.
  7. Supplement Retirement Income: Use annuitization and optional income riders of annuity products to establish a secure flow of supplementary retirement income.
  8. Income Planning for Small Businesses: Utilize income options from a deferred annuity to establish a lasting income stream for small, qualified plans. Consider integrating the annuity as a financial tool within the qualified plan to optimize financial outcomes.

If you’d like explore these strategies further and determine their suitability for your retirement plan, give us a call at (336) 391-3409.