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November 1, 2015 Earnings 12 Comments

Earnings help make beating Wall Street that much sweeter

Earnings help make beating Wall Street that much sweeter Still, not many company have missed. Of the first 340 S&P 500 companies to report earnings for the third quarter, 76 percent of them have beaten estimates, FactSet reports, which is above historical averages. Still, it hasn’t been all peaches and cream … Continue reading at […]

There are three principal advantages to an annuity: 1. Tax-deferred accumulation. This allows you to set aside the funds that you pay into the annuity for as long as you want, without worrying about exceeding federal tax limits. 2. Flexibility. An annuity can offer you a variable or a fixed return, unencumbered by federal tax limitations. 3. Security. An annuity offers a fixed-income payout option which would grant an income that cannot be outlived.

There are several pay-out methods available when you begin receiving annuity payments. With some options, you or your beneficiaries can select how you want to be paid. The following are some of these:

In some cases, in fact, it's not even the same fund to begin with. Remember, after a management change, the rating stays with the fund, not the portfolio manager. Therefore, a fund's rating might be based almost entirely on the track record of a manager who is no longer with the fund.