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Income Riders Are Great if You Understand Them and Their Purpose

Income Riders Are Great if You Understand Them and Their Purpose

Written By: Richard E. Navarra in Wexford, PA There is much excitement over income riders attached to fixed indexed annuities, and it is for good reason when understood and used for the proper situations.  The problem is consumers of annuities are confusing the accumulation of the income rider with the actual accumulation value within the annuity.  The accumulation value grows as a result of the annuity’s increase based on the increase of the indices the annuity is tied to after applying contractual caps, participation rates,...

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