What is an Annuity? What you should know about them. Provided by Marc Aarons   Individuals hold about $2.5 trillion in annuity contracts; a tidy sum considering an estimated $12.2 trillion is held in all types of IRAs.1 Annuity contracts are purchased from an insurance company. In exchange, the insurance company makes regular payments to […]

A look at how variable rates of return do (and do not) impact investors over time. Provided by Marc Aarons @ Money Managers, Inc. What exactly is the “sequence of returns”? The phrase simply describes the yearly variation in an investment portfolio’s rate of return. Across 20 or 30 years of saving and investing for […]