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With so many options in retirement, it can often be difficult to make educated guesses based on your circumstances. That’s where the pros here at Secure Retirement Strategies love to help out. Find out from Lou Aarons, managing partner at the firm, how indexed annuities differ from variable annuities in

We leverage our experience in planning retirements to maximize your experience in living your retirement.   John Blair brings 25 years of experience in the financial planning world to bear on our team, our operations, and your experience as a valued client of ours.   John’s, and our entire team’s,

Expenses in a long-term care situation pile up faster than we’d care to think about.  Taxes on top of those expenses simply add to a burden that can be minimized with the proper assets in place for you to capitalize on. In this SRS Short video, Marc Smith, founding partner at

If you’ve never considered how to leverage the living benefits of a life insurance policy, you wouldn’t be alone.  Many of our clients simply don’t know the options when it comes to structuring their plans for retirement income. In this video, Marc Smith, founding partner at Secure Retirement Strategies, elaborates

Putting your trust in an individual to handle the finances in retirement might seem daunting.  But combining the perspectives, experience, capabilities, and proven outcomes of a team approach gives you a greater sense that the options being presented, and the decisions being made, aren’t isolated but vetted, tested, and refined.

In retirement, there’s more to consider than just what activities, hobbies, or traveling you’re going to enjoy with your nest egg. Statistics show that 3 out of 4 retirees will require some sort of long-term care in retirement, and the cost of that care has been increasing exponentially. Below, Lou

When most people think of their retirement structures, lessening their tax burden usually falls toward the top of their list of priorities. Below, Lou Aarons explains why a properly structured life insurance retirement plan, or LIRP, both minimizes that burden, while leveraging the exponential power of indexing. Transcript: Hi, it’s

Aristotelian rationale says that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Accountants might want to see the numbers on that (trust us, we have plenty of them at our firm). And yet we couldn’t agree more.  The team approach sets Secure Retirement Strategy above other financial planning

Ever wonder if there’s an advantage to using after-tax dollars within an indexed annuity? You’re on the right track Watch below as Lou Aarons explains how using after-tax dollars works for you with regard to tax deferral in an annuity contract. Transcript: Hi, it’s Lou Aarons again, I’m one of

You wouldn’t cook your own goose if you didn’t have to, would you?  We didn’t think so. And neither does the United States Congress. In fact, no less than 66% of Congress have money in a LIRP, making it one of those retirement investment strategies we feel strongly will be

As of the writing of this post, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed what is being billed as the SECURE Act 2.0.  This will almost certainly bring updates to the how we currently strategize with our clients on the best options for them in retirement. However, it’s good to

Whether it’s because we’re so busy, or we think things are already taken care of, or perhaps someone’s financial outlook has changed, we often suffer for lack of understanding all of the options at our disposal when it comes to retirement planning.  Most of us have been told about traditional

Independence. Accountability. Those two concepts seemingly don’t go hand-in-hand when it comes to financial responsibility.  Yet we believe that, as a firm, it’s vital for us to marry these two, and always hold them as values for our client’s benefit. What do we mean by this?  It’s simple. We’re independent

Knowledge is essential in determining the right product to choose for a particular strategy.  We believe in the power of indexed annuities, but only when they’re part of larger strategy that has the full view of your retirement portfolio in mind. It’s critical that you understand how certain indexed annuities

We frequently get asked these kinds of questions when addressing indexed annuities as part of what we call the “bucket strategy” of retirement planning: Why does an annuity make sense in my retirement portfolio? What are the fees associated with these sorts of products? What is a surrender period, and