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	<title>Ask Colleen King &#187; Annuities</title>
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	<description>All the questions you&#039;ve had about health insurance, life insurance, annuities and long term care insurance (but were afraid to ask)</description>
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		<title>Taxes on annuity earnings? Are you kidding me?</title>
		<link>http://askcolleenking.com/2010/02/taxes-on-annuity-earnings-are-you-kidding-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is an &#8216;insurance person&#8217; writing about a tax issue? When it comes to annuities, it may end up connected if the President has his way. Unfortunately. An article in Investment News by Dan Jamieson on February 22 indicates that President Obama wants to have the 2.9% Medicare tax apply now to unearned income. This [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Why is an &#8216;insurance person&#8217; writing about a tax issue? When it comes to annuities, it may end up connected if the President has his way. Unfortunately.
An article in Investment News by Dan Jamieson on February 22 indicates that President Obama wants to have the 2.9% Medicare tax apply now to unearned income. This will [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Insurance? Not today</title>
		<link>http://askcolleenking.com/2008/12/insurance-not-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Health Insurance, life insurance, annuities, long term care insurance&#8211;okay, my usual topics are in. But today&#8217;s article is not to talk about insurance, I just want to wish everyone a Happy New Year. 2008 was a lousy year for many people, so kick it to the curb and get ready for 2009. As far as [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Health Insurance, life insurance, annuities, long term care insurance&#8211;okay, my usual topics are in. But today&#8217;s article is not to talk about insurance, I just want to wish everyone a Happy New Year.
2008 was a lousy year for many people, so kick it to the curb and get ready for 2009. As far as insurance, [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>&#8220;I refuse to participate in the recession.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://askcolleenking.com/2008/10/i-refuse-to-participate-in-the-recession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently heard this statement at a sales training session, and it&#8217;s become my new mantra. Health insurance and most other types of insurance for that matter, can be really expensive and now&#8217;s not the time to be absorbing rate increases. Even though I sell insurance for a living I don&#8217;t like to see people [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I recently heard this statement at a sales training session, and it&#8217;s become my new mantra. Health insurance and most other types of insurance for that matter, can be really expensive and now&#8217;s not the time to be absorbing rate increases.
Even though I sell insurance for a living I don&#8217;t like to see people pay [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>What about Annuities in this crazy time?</title>
		<link>http://askcolleenking.com/2008/09/what-about-annuities-in-this-crazy-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can it get much crazier? If you&#8217;ve never considered an annuity for anything before, you should consider it now. An annuity is actually an insurance product that gives people a guarantee on their investment. At least the fixed annuities and fixed indexed annuities do. The stock market is a scary place to have your money [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Can it get much crazier? If you&#8217;ve never considered an annuity for anything before, you should consider it now.
An annuity is actually an insurance product that gives people a guarantee on their investment. At least the fixed annuities and fixed indexed annuities do. The stock market is a scary place to have your money these [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Annuities and the beauty of tax deferred growth</title>
		<link>http://askcolleenking.com/2008/08/annuities-and-the-beauty-of-tax-deferred-growth/</link>
		<comments>http://askcolleenking.com/2008/08/annuities-and-the-beauty-of-tax-deferred-growth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Annuities]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Annuities are a tool that allow money to grow on a tax deferred basis. Not tax free, tax deferred. Tax deferred growth is the benefit of retirement plans, whether you are looking at an employer plan such as a 401k or 403b, or an IRA you start yourself. The idea is that you let this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Annuities&#8211;what are they, and why should I consider having one?</title>
		<link>http://askcolleenking.com/2008/07/annuities-what-are-they-and-why-should-i-consider-having-one/</link>
		<comments>http://askcolleenking.com/2008/07/annuities-what-are-they-and-why-should-i-consider-having-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[fixed indexed annuities]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Annuities can be a good things for a lot of people depending on their retirement status, financial situation and age. There are essentially two categories&#8211;fixed and variable. In the fixed category, you have the regular old fixed annuity and fixed indexed annuities. Variable annuities I&#8217;ll touch on briefly&#8211;only briefly because I don&#8217;t sell them, but [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Annuities can be a good things for a lot of people depending on their retirement status, financial situation and age. There are essentially two categories&#8211;fixed and variable. In the fixed category, you have the regular old fixed annuity and fixed indexed annuities.
Variable annuities I&#8217;ll touch on briefly&#8211;only briefly because I don&#8217;t sell them, but want [...]]]></content:encoded>
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