Do Your Investments Match Your Risk Tolerance?

DO YOUR INVESTMENTS MATCH YOUR RISK TOLERANCE? Now is a good time to examine what’s in your portfolio. The stock market is unsettled … and perhaps its fluctuations are unsettling you. It’s a stressful time for the economy and Wall Street, and you may be concerned about your portfolio given what’s going on with oil [...]

How To Know If An Indexed Annuity is Good For You – Presented by Pete Mitchell

Fixed indexed annuities can be very useful investments. As the name implies, FIAs are fixed annuities linked to the performance of a stock market index (often the S&P 500). Because of this stock market exposure, they can sometimes bring conservative investors very nice returns – often, considerably better returns than CDs, bonds, or money market accounts. They really aren’t designed to outperform the stock markets; they are designed to outperform the fixed markets.